“If I hadn’t gone with Willie, I would be in the penitentiary or dead,” Paul English once said of working alongside the music legend
However, he didn’t just become a drummer, he also became Nelson’s accountant, road manager and enforcer — pulling out the notorious guns he kept in his boots whenever someone tried to cross the Family.recalls a time when English shot at Nelson’s son-in-law’s car after he had hit the artist’s daughter, Lana.
“I told Lana we could do something,” English explained to the outlet at the time. “We could break his legs. We have to do something to him. We cain’t go and leave him walking. We’d of done that to him. That’s nothing.”The gun-toting drummer soon landed the nickname “The Devil” for his tough-guy persona, which he emphasized by wearing a black-satin cape and matching hat.
Many say English was not just instrumental to Nelson’s success as a music icon, but also an American icon — including English’s son, Robert Paul, Jr.in 2015. “The music’s still gorgeous but there’s no shootout at Lana’s house. All these stories are part of the legend and serve to define outlaw as outlaw, legitimately outside the law. He was the real deal.”
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