Willie Nelson Laid a Wet One on Jason Isbell’s Wife. But Hey, It’s Willie Nelson.
If anyone could get away with walking right up to a happily married woman, planting one right on her lips right in front of her husband, and all the associated parties would walk away with a humors story to tell instead of an account of a fist fight, it would be Willie Nelson. And that’s exactly what happened a while back when Willie ran into singer, songwriter, and fiddle player Amanda Shires—also known as Mrs. Jason Isbell.
“Willie Nelson—you know Willie’s great,” Jason Isbell told Chris Shifflet, guitarist for the Foo Fighters on the most recent installment of his revered podcast, Walking the Floor with Chris Shiflett on PodcastOne. “You know, we did a lot of shows with him two years ago, and that was a really special time. One of the early shows we were playing with them, my wife Amanda came out—she’d been touring on her own, and came and joined us. And at the end of the night, Willie would get everyone up on stage to do the encore, you know, and then he’d go around and sign autographs in the front row before he got off stage. And Amanda just showed up, like right before our set, so they’d not met or anything…”
As anyone who has seen Willie Nelson live can attest, the best souvenir you can walk away with is if Willie hands you or throws you one of his signature red headbands. During many shows, Willie will wear two or three of them, and whip them out in the crowd at certain times. But the most prized one is the headband he’s wearing at the end of the set.
“We were all up there playing,” Jason Isbell continues, “and Willie walks over to my wife, Amanda, takes his headband off and puts it on her head, and then kisses her right on the mouth!”
So the next question for Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires was, should they be offended, or honored?
“She was like, ‘I didn’t know if you’d be mad about that or not,’” Isbell explains. “I said, ‘First of all, it’s Willie Nelson. Second of all, he could probably whoop my ass. Somebody who smokes that much weed, you never know what they’re going to do in a fight. They could come up with some weird, left field shit.”
And hey, it’s Willie Nelson. And if you were Willie Nelson you would probably try to get away with kissing pretty girls too. Because you’re Willie Nelson.
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Amanda Shires has a new album called My Piece of Land coming out September 16th. The full Chris Shiflett interview with Jason Isbell can be heard below.
Andrew
August 1, 2016 @ 6:46 pm
Funny story, but I have to say I’m at the point where any headline about Willie Nelson gives me a mini heart attack thinking he might have died.
I was in the front row at a willie concert, and he threw the same lady two headbands! I didn’t get shit, but I still had a great time!
GeneL
August 1, 2016 @ 7:31 pm
I got tickets to see him Sep.4th at Seneca Allegany Casino so he’s gotta keep that ticker going for a little while longer
justin quigley
August 1, 2016 @ 7:32 pm
Hell, I’d be mad at my lady if she didn’t kiss Willie Nelson.
justin quigley
August 1, 2016 @ 7:35 pm
I’d be mad if my gal didn’t kiss Willie.
Matty T
August 1, 2016 @ 7:50 pm
Nobody but Willie could get away with that.
ElectricOutcast
August 2, 2016 @ 4:02 am
Willie Nelson: same guy who kissed Charlie Pride in the face during a concert.
Tezca
August 2, 2016 @ 6:51 am
This is funny lol and on the actor side of things I bet Robert Downey Jr would get away with that too cause it’s RDJ lol but that’s just me being a fan of his lol
Roland of Gilead
August 2, 2016 @ 3:23 pm
Old men are STILL men!!
Jackie Meoff
August 2, 2016 @ 3:56 pm
Yuk, I , for some reason think it’s pretty gross – getting kissed by Willie on the lips grosses me out. On cheek would be acceptable. Come on, you bunch of groupies he is almost 100 yrs old and looks like a wrinkled old fossil. Maybe you guys need to be kissed by 100 yr old fossil woman, on the lips. Wonder what his 5 the or is it 6 the wife thinks about it. Probably nothing – she doesn’t want to kiss him either. Now, a kiss on the lips from Brad P or Clooney or Charlie Dunnam SOA, would be super Awesome. I just asked my 62 year old friend if she would like being kissed on lips by Willie and I thought she was going to regurgitate on my feet. Oh course, she has a boyfriend 8 yrs younger than she. Lol
Tezca
August 2, 2016 @ 9:20 pm
Willie has four wife’s, the current one is his fourth one. And he may have a few wrinkles but that doesn’t make him unattractive and he is definitely not a fossil. I mean yeah he is not my first choice to be suddenly kissed upon a celeb I like(that would be Waylon(if he was still around)and RDJ but that doesn’t mean there isn’t someone out there that want to definitely be kissed by Willie.
stinks
August 3, 2016 @ 6:07 pm
Loretta and dolly could plant one on me anytime. Emmylou, Bonnie raitt, Darlene Love. List could get long
Cool Lester Smooth
August 4, 2016 @ 9:28 pm
Honestly, my main takeaway from the story is that we’re getting a new Amanda Shires album in September!!!
She’s obscenely good.