Newsweek (8/14/78)Â
Willie first spied his present wife, Connie, while playing in Cut and Shoot, Texas. “I turned to my steel-guitar player and said, ‘Get that tall good-lookin’ blond for me.” Like any good, obedient steel player, he came up after the show and said, “Here she is.”
More to the point, Nelson found Connie and married her. They now have two young daughters, Paula Carlene and Amy, and they make their home at a mountaintop retreat near Denver — mainly so Connie could escape the tourists who frequently appeared at their well-known Austin ranch.