When Willie Nelson and Leon Russell perform this summer in Kansas — Aug. 1 in Salina’s Stiefel Theatre and Aug. 2 at the Topeka Performing Arts Center — it will be far from the first time they have shared a stage.
The two hit the road together in 1979 in a double-billed concert tour, and some of the songs later were recorded in the studio for their collaborative album, “One for the Road."
It went gold, selling more than 500,000 copies, and the Country Music Association nominated it for Album of the Year. (The trophy went to Kenny Rogers’ ...