Listening from behind the stage

By VALERIE MOSLEY

May 21, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

Crowds gathered just behind the stage at Ninth and Broadway to listen to Willie Nelson perform on Wednesday. "I've seen Willie before. He's right here. You can't stop the sound," Bob Woolf said.

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