Recently, in a post called All Hat and No Cattle, I wrote about the tackiness of so-called country-western singers wearing cowboy hats indoors (and the silly-looking style of un-Texan-like hats that they wear). I was telling you that real Texas men do not wear their hats in the house (that’s “indoors” if you’re from someplace else).
Well, over the weekend I was flipping channels on the TV, when I happened to see Willie Nelson and the boys performing on a stage…indoors…and they had hats on! You could have knocked me over with a feather.
And, of course, I was crushed.
I’ve seen Willie perform lots of times on TV, indoors and out, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him wear a hat. Except maybe at his famous Fourth of July picnic in the broiling sun, he always wore a bandana tied around his head like a sweatband.
But now…well, all I can say is it was a sad day for Texas manners when Willie and the boys decided to start wearing their hats in the house. Things will never be the same.
I mean, it’s not like Willie and the boys ever have to worry about being mistaken for Bostonians, like some of those would-be cowboys who look like they’re wearing their daddies’ hats. It’s not like Willie Nelson needs a hat to be a country singer.
He’s Willie Nelson, The Red-Headed Stranger, for heaven’s sake! He does not need to wear a cowboy hat at all when he performs—much less in the house!
But he was wearin’ it, bigger’n Dallas. And I’ll bet it wasn’t the first time, either.
And that’s how Willie Nelson broke my heart.
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