Willie Nelson...

...is an icon in the business and we all love him. I mean no disrespect... is it just me...or is he almost always ahead of the music by a half-beat when he's on-stage ? You ever notice that? His recordings are dead-on perfect and will be playing 50 years from now, but his producers and arrangers can't control him on-stage. We watched a live performance last night and I have to say...the American Idol judges would have found him "pitchy" (which he isn't) and most likely would not have voted him on to Hollywood.