“THE OPRY DIDN’T JUST HEAR A SONG — IT WATCHED A LEGACY CHANGE HANDS”: HOW LUKAS NELSON TURNED A WILLIE CLASSIC INTO ONE OF THE MOST EMOTIONAL MOMENTS OF THE YEAR
The room at the Grand Ole Opry was already quiet before the first chord was played, but the silence that settled over the crowd when Lukas Nelson stepped toward the microphone carried a different kind of weight. People knew what song was coming almost immediately. There are certain songs in country music that no longer…