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Amanda Shires considered Bobbie Nelson one of her heroes long before they became friends and started work on their new album of duets, Loving You, back in 2021. While much of the world thinks of Bobbie as Willie’s sister and longtime piano player, Shires saw Bobbie as a North Star guiding light in her own right. She was a musician who managed to shine as a side player in a band, just as Shires started doing when she joined the Texas Playboys at the age of fifteen. Bobbie was also a female who navigated a male-dominated industry and a working mom to boot, overcoming some of life’s hardest obstacles by leaning on faith, family, and music.In this week’s episode of One by Willie, Shires talks…

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