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With Strings Attached

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Shotgun Willie's longtime musical partner is showing its age, but it still plays with plenty of pluck.Country music has always believed in the duet: Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Yet, love fades, contracts expire, and inevitably most performing partners go their separate ways. One union that seems destined to last indefinitely, though, is the marriage of Willie Nelson and his guitar.True love is blind, and Willie sees, feels, and hears only beauty when he plays his battered Martin, with its myriad autographs and a second hole worn just below the sixth string by 25 years of picking. The relationship dates back to the early days in Nashville, back when Willie was still primarily a songwriter and needed an acoustic round-hole guitar to pitch songs and play in motel rooms. Baldwin Music…

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