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DALLAS -- Charm is a mysterious quality, no doubt. Some folks have it; others don't.
Bruce Robsion and Kelly Willis, married for more than a decade and two of country music's finest songwriters, have it. It's a low-key charm, full of little looks and jokes and smiles.
There are so many places these Christmas shows could go wrong (on paper, I can't think of a more unholy union than Christmas music and country twang), but the fact that they don't is a testament to the taste and tremendous abilities of Willis and Robison. Willis' flirtatious honky-tonk voice fit Santa Baby as perfectly as Eartha Kitt's did years ago. And Robison explored a more familiar country theme with the classic ode to holiday sobriety, Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas), popularized by John Denver.
Singing together works well for these two, as few voices in country music sound as good together as Willis' and Robison's do. On Angry All The Time, played at the encore, and Travelin' Soldier, Robison's relaxed, South Texas drawl perfectly complimented the ache in Willis' voice. It might be country heresy to say this, but I'd rather hear Robison and Willis than George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
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