1962 And Then I Wrote
1963 Here's Willie Nelson
1965 Country Willie - His Own Songs
1966 Country Favorites-Willie Nelson Style
1966 Country Music Concert
1967 Make Way for Willie Nelson
1967 "The Party's Over" And Other Great Willie Nelson Songs
1968 Good Ol' Country Singin'
1968 Texas In My Soul
1969 Good Times
1969 My Own Peculiar Way
1970 Columbus Stockade Blues
1970 Both Sides Now
1970 Laying My Burdens Down
1971 Willie Nelson and Family
1971 Yesterday's Wine
1972 The Words Don't Fit the Picture
1972 The Willie Way
1973 Country Winners
1973 Shotgun Willie
1974 Spotlight on Willie Nelson
1974 Phases and Stages
1975 Country Willie
1975 What Can You Do to Me Now
1975 Red Headed Stranger
1976 The Sound in Your Mind
1976 The Longhorn Jamboree Presents: Willie Nelson & His Friends
1976 Troublemaker
1976 Willie Nelson Live
1976 Wanted! The Outlaws (with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser)
1977 Willie - Before His Time
1977 To Lefty From Willie
1978 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
1978 Stardust
1978 Face of a Fighter
1978 Willie and Family Live
1978 Waylon & Willie (with Waylon Jennings)
1979 Sweet Memories
1979 Sings Kristofferson
1979 Pretty Paper
1979 One for the Road (with Leon Russell)
1980 Electric Horseman
1980 Honeysuckle Rose
1980 Family Bible
1980 Willie Nelson And Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass (with Danny Davis)
1980 San Antonio Rose (with Ray Price)
1981 Minstrel Man
1981 Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)
1981 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (with Freddie Powers)
1982 Always on My Mind
1982 The Best
1982 20 of the Best
1982 WWII
1982 Old Friends (with Roger Miller)
1982 In the Jailhouse Now (with Webb Pierce)
1982 The Winning Hand (with Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton and Brenda Lee)
1983 My Own Way
1983 Tougher Than Leather
1983 Pancho & Lefty (with Merle Haggard)
1983 Take It to the Limit (with Waylon Jennings)
1984 Without a Song
1984 City of New Orleans
1984 Don't You Ever Get Tired (of Hurting Me)
1984 Angel Eyes (with Jackie King)
1984 Music from Songwriter (with Kris Kristofferson
1984 Funny How Time Slips Away (with Faron Young)
1985 Me and Paul
1985 Collectors Series
1985 Half Nelson
1986 Partners
1986 The Promised Land
1987 Island in the Sea
1987 What a Wonderful World
1987 Walking the Line (with George Jones and Merle Haggard)
1987 Seashores of Old Mexico (with Merle Haggard)
1989 A Horse Called Music
1990 Born for Trouble
1990 Clean Shirt (with Waylon Jennings)
1992 The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?
1992 Any Old Arms Won't Do
1993 Across the Borderline
1993 Super Hits
1994 Six Hours at Pedernales
1994 Moonlight Becomes You
1994 Healing Hands of Time
1995 Just One Love
1995 Augusta
1995 Super Hits 2
1995 Revolutions of Time...The Journey 1975/1993 (3-CD-Boxset)
1996 Standard Time
1996 Spirit
1996 How Great Thou Art
1997 Hill Country Christmas (with Bobbie Nelson)
1998 Teatro
1998 16 Biggest Hits
1998 VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson (with Johnny Cash)
1999 Night and Day
2000 Tales Out of Luck (Me and the Drummer)
2000 Milk Cow Blues
2001 Rainbow Connection
2002 The Great Divide
2002 Willie Nelson & Friends - Stars & Guitars
2002 All of Me - Live in Concert
2003 Crazy: The Demo Sessions
2003 Live and Kickin'
2003 The Essential Willie Nelson
2003 Run That By Me One More Time (with Ray Price)
2004 Outlaws and Angels
2004 It Always Will Be
2004 Nacogdoches
2004 Live at Billy Bob's Texas
2005 Songs
2005 Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia
2005 Countryman
2006 You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
2006 Songbird (with Ryan Adams)
2007 Last of the Breed (with Merle Haggard and Ray Price)
2008 Moment of Forever
2008 One Hell of a Ride
2008 Playlist: The Very Best of Willie Nelson
2008 Two Men with the Blues (with Wynton Marsalis)
Movies
Year Movie
1979 The Electric Horseman
1980 Honeysuckle Rose
1981 Thief
1982 Barbarosa
1984 Songwriter
1986 Red-Headed Stranger
1986 Stagecoach
1988 Once Upon a Texas Train
1988 Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
1996 Starlight
1997 Gone Fishin'
1997 Wag the Dog
1998 Half Baked
1999 Outlaw Justice
2003 The Austin Disaster, 1911
2005 The Dukes of Hazzard
2006 Beerfest
2006 Broken Bridges[31]
2007 The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
2007 Blonde Ambition
2007 Fighting with Anger
2008 Swing Vote
2008 Surfer Dude
2008 Shoot Out of Luck
2008 The Boom Boom Room
2008 Beer For My Horses
Books
Willie: Autobiography 1988 Bud Shrake, The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes 2002, The Tao of Willie 2006 Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life 2008 Joe Nick Patoski
Heroes
AWARDS
1975 Grammy Best Male Country Vocal Performance
1976 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
1976 CMA Single of the Year
1976 CMA Album of the Year
1977 American Music Awards Favorite Single
1978 Grammy Best Male Country Vocal Performance
1978 Grammy Best Country Performance by Duo/Group W/Vocals
1979 CMA Entertainer of the Year
1979 ACM Entertainer of the Year
1980 Grammy Best Country Song
1982 Grammy Best Male Country Vocal Performance
1982 CMA Single of the Year
1982 CMA Album of the Year
1982 American Music Awards Favorite Male Artist
1982 ACM Single of the Year
1982 ACM Album of the Year
1983 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
1983 American Music Awards Favorite Album
1984 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
1984 American Music Awards Favorite Male Artist
1984 ACM Single of the Year
1985 ACM Single of the Year
1986 American Music Awards Favorite Single
1986 American Music Awards Favorite Male Artist
1987 American Music Awards Favorite Male Artist
1990 Grammy Legend Awards
1995 TNN/Music City News Minnie Pearl Award
1995 TNN/Music City News Living Legend
1999 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
2002 Grammy Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
2002 CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Video Collaboration of the Year
2002 CMA Vocal Event of the Year
2003 CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music #4 ranking
2003 Grammy Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
2004 CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Video Collaboration of the Year
2008 Grammy Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
Willie Nelson **Fan Site**'s Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Abbott, Texas
Body type:
Average
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Children:
Proud parent
Occupation:
Outlaw
Willie Nelson **Fan Site** is on the road again Posted at 9:15 PM Jul 8 view more
About me: My name is Jennifer and I am a Willie Nelson Super Fan. I created this page so others could hopefully learn a little bit more about the man and the music that I have loved my entire life. I don't want anyone to think in any way that the messages and comments they leave are being read by Willie, because that is not the case at all! I try to foreward all messages that are written for Willie to his Offical MySpace page, but sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. Well, anyways, I really hope you enjoy my page, take a look at all the pictures. Please feel free to send me your pictures with Willie and I would be happy to post them in the Fan Photos Album. I love seeing all your pics!! I hope you like the page and meet some fellow Willie fans who could eventually turn into some great friends!
Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie Nelson, were raised by their grandparents after their parents divorced. His grandparents gave him mail-order music lessons, starting at age six. Willie played the guitar, while Bobbie played the piano.
After graduation, Nelson joined the Air Force, but left due to back problems. He also attended Baylor University for one year. Eventually, he became a DJ at a country music radio station in Fort Worth while singing locally in honky tonk bars. In 1956, Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, to begin a musical career by recording "Lumberjack," which was written by Leon Payne. The single sold fairly well, but did not establish a career. Nelson continued to work as a radio announcer in Vancouver and sing in clubs. He sold a song called "Family Bible" for $50; the song was a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, has been covered widely and is often considered a gospel music classic.
Nelson moved to Tennessee, but was unable to land a record label contract. He did, however, receive a publishing contract at Pamper Music. After Ray Price recorded Nelson's "Night Life" (reputedly the most covered country song of all time), Nelson joined Price's touring band as a bass player. While playing with Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, many of Nelson's songs became hits for some of country music's biggest stars of the time. These songs include "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Hello Walls" (Faron Young), "Pretty Paper" (Roy Orbison) and most famously, "Crazy" (Patsy Cline). Nelson signed with Liberty Records in 1961 and released several singles, including "Willingly" (with his wife, Shirley Collie) and "Touch Me."
He was unable to keep his momentum going, however, and Nelson's career ground to a halt. Demo recordings from his years as a songwriter for Pamper Music were later discovered and released as Crazy: The Demo Sessions (2003). His personal life during this period was also colorful, to say the least. His alcoholism, failed day jobs and a penchant for carrying guns got him in trouble with the law, not to mention with his wife, numerous times.
In 1965, Nelson moved to RCA Victor Records and joined the Grand Ole Opry. He followed this with a series of minor hits. Frustrated with the music business, which tried to force him into a mold, Nelson retired and moved to Austin, Texas. While in Austin, with its burgeoning "hippie" music scene, Nelson decided to return to music. His popularity in Austin soared, as he played his own brand of country music marked by rock and roll, jazz, western swing, and folk influences. A lifelong passion for running and a new commitment to his own health also began during this period.
Signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson released Shotgun Willie (1973), which won excellent reviews, but did not sell well. Phases and Stages (1974), a concept album inspired by his divorce, included the hit single "Bloody Mary Morning." Nelson then moved to Columbia Records, where he was given complete creative control over his work. The result was the critically acclaimed, massively popular concept album, Red Headed Stranger (1975). Although Columbia was reluctant to release an album with primarily a guitar and piano for accompaniment, Nelson insisted (with the assistance of Waylon Jennings) and the album was a huge hit, partially because it included a popular cover of "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Fred Rose 1945).
Along with Nelson, Waylon Jennings was also achieving massive success in country music in the early 1970s, and the pair were soon combined into a genre called outlaw country ("outlaw" because they did not conform to Nashville standards). Nelson's outlaw image was cemented with the release of the album Wanted: The Outlaws! (1976 with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompaul Glaser), country music's first platinum album. Nelson continued to top the charts with hit songs during the late 1970s, including "Good Hearted Woman" (a duet with Jennings), "Remember Me", "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time", "Uncloudy Day", "I Love You a Thousand Ways", and "Something to Brag About" (a duet with Mary Kay Place).
In 1978, Nelson released two more platinum albums, Waylon and Willie (a collaboration with Jennings that included one of Waylon's signature songs, "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") and Stardust, an unusual, string-based album of popular standards. Though most observers predicted that Stardust would ruin his career, it ended up being one of his most successful recordings.
Nelson began acting, appearing in The Electric Horseman (1979), starring in Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Barbarosa (1982), Red-Headed Stranger (1986, with Morgan Fairchild), Wag the Dog (1997), Gone Fishin (1997) as Billy 'Catch' Pooler, and the 1986 TV movie Stagecoach (with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, all of whom would form a band with Nelson called The Highwaymen). He has continued acting since his early successes, but usually in smaller roles and cameos, such as Half Baked as an elderly "Historian Smoker" who, while smoking marijuana, would reminisce about how things used to be in his younger years; Nelson also appeared as himself in the 2006 movie Beerfest, looking for teammates to join him in a mythical world-championship marijuana-smoking contest held in Amsterdam. Nelson has made guest appearances on Miami Vice, Delta, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, Monk, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman and King of the Hill. He played Uncle Jesse in The Dukes of Hazzard, the 2005 cinematic remake of the television series, and has reprised the role in the upcoming sequel The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007) (V).
The Eighties saw a series of hit singles: "Always on My Mind" (originally made popular by Elvis Presley), "On the Road Again" from the movie Honeysuckle Rose and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" (a duet with Julio Iglesias). There were also more popular albums, including Pancho & Lefty (1982, with Merle Haggard), WWII (1982, with Waylon Jennings) and Take it to the Limit (1983, with Waylon Jennings).
In the mid-1980s, Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash formed a group called The Highwaymen. They achieved unexpectedly massive success, including platinum record sales and worldwide touring. Meanwhile, he became more and more involved in charity work, such as establishing the Farm Aid concerts in 1985.
In 1990, the IRS handed Nelson a bill for $16.7 million in back taxes and took away most of his assets to help pay the charges. He released The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? as a double album, with all profits going straight to the IRS. Many of his assets were auctioned and purchased by friends, who gave his possessions back to him or rented them at a nominal fee. His debts were paid by 1993.
During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson has toured continuously and released albums that generally received mixed reviews, with the exception of 1998's critically acclaimed Teatro (which was produced by Daniel Lanois—more commonly known for his work with U2—and featured supporting vocals by Emmylou Harris). Later that year, he joined legendary rock band Phish onstage for several songs as part of the annual Farm Aid festival. He also performed a duet concert with fellow Highwayman Johnny Cash, recorded for the VH1 Storytellers series.
Nelson received Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. A star-studded television special celebrating his 70th birthday aired in 2003. In 2004, he released Outlaws & Angels, featuring guests Toby Keith, Joe Walsh, Merle Haggard, Kid Rock, Al Green, Shelby Lynne, Carole King, Toots Hibbert, Ben Harper, Lee Ann Womack, The Holmes Brothers, Los Lonely Boys, Lucinda Williams, Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis and Rickie Lee Jones.
In 2004, Nelson and his wife Annie became partners with Bob and Kelly King in the building of two Pacific Biodiesel Plants, one in Salem, Oregon, and the other at Carl's Corner, Texas (the latter founded by Carl Cornelius, a long time friend). In 2005, Nelson and several other business partners formed Willie Nelson Biodiesel[1] (also known as BioWillie), a company that is marketing Biodiesel biofuel to truck stops. The fuel is made from vegetable oils, mainly soybeans, and can be burned without modification in diesel engines.
Nelson also sits as co-chair on the NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) advisory board, which includes such names as Bill Maher, Mark Stepnoski, Daniel Stern, Dr Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School, Sheriff Bill Masters of Telluride, Colorado. He has been working with the organization for many years in an attempt to 'normalize' the use of cannabis, including producing "public service" commercials for NORML that have appeared on Pot TV programs. In 2005, Willie and his family hosted the first annual Willie Nelson & NORML Benefit Golf Tournament, which appeared on the cover of High Times Magazine. Nelson once said on the David Letterman Show that he smoked marijuana on the White House roof while visiting President Jimmy Carter.
On January 9 2005, Nelson headlined an all-star concert at Austin Music Hall, to benefit the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake. Tsunami Relief Austin to Asia raised an estimated $120,000 for UNICEF and two other organizations.
Nelson was a supporter of Kinky Friedman's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in Texas in 2006. In 2004, he supported Congressman Dennis Kucinich for President, raising money, appearing at events, composing a song ("Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?") for the campaign, and contributing an enthusiastic quote to the front cover of Kucinich's book. In 2005, he recorded a radio advertisement asking for support to put Friedman on the ballot as an independent candidate. Friedman has promised Willie a job in Austin as the head of the new "Texas Energy Commission," due to Nelson's support of biofuels.
Nelson is an advocate for horses and their treatment. He has been campaigning for passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 503/S. 1915) with the Society for Animal Protective Legislation. He has also adopted a number of horses from Habitat for Horses.
In March 2007, Ben & Jerry's released a new flavor, Willie Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler Ice Cream. Nelson's proceeds will be donated to Farm Aid. On March 19, 2007 Ben & Jerry's voluntarily recalled 250,000 pints of the new flavor as wheat was incorrectly excluded from the list of ingredients.
Willie Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon. His distinctive music and other social and political activities, which include, among other things, being Advisory Board co-chair of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, sometimes take a backseat to his pop-culture public image, firmly grounded in the acknowledged reality of his life - that of an elderly, lifelong marijuana-smoking old-school cowboy-hippie troubadour. His image is marked by his red hair, often divided into two long braids partially concealed under a bandana. He has been featured in recent advertisements for a variety of products and companies, including The Gap.
During the controversial 2003 Texas congressional redistricting, Nelson made the news by sending a case of whiskey to the Democrats of the Texas Legislature in self-imposed exile in Ardmore, Oklahoma. An attached note read "Stand your ground." In 2005 a Democratic representative in Texas' legislature attempted to name part of a highway after Nelson, but after opposition from Willie, who did not want his name associated with the controversial toll road, and from some Republican lawmakers, who claimed Nelson did not warrant mention since he had nothing to do with the creation of the highway, the representative dropped his plan.
In 2002, Nelson signed a deal to become the official spokesperson to the Texas Roadhouse, a fast-growing chain of steakhouses in the U.S. Since then, Nelson has heavily promoted the chain (including on a special on Food Network). Meanwhile the Texas Roadhouse itself installed "Willie's Corner" at several locations, which is a section dedicated to Nelson and decked out with memorabilia of Nelson.
No stranger to controversy, he released the Tex-Mex style "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other," a song about gay cowboys, as a digital single through the iTunes Music Store on Valentine's Day 2006, shortly after the release of the film Brokeback Mountain (which also featured Nelson on the soundtrack). He deadpans his way through the song, with such phrases as "What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out." The song was written and first recorded more than twenty years previously by musicologist/songwriter Ned Sublette and had also been covered, prior to Nelson's version, by queercore band Pansy Division.
In the April 2007 issue of Stuff Magazine Nelson was interviewed about his long locks. "I started braiding my hair when it started getting too long, and that was, I don't know, probably in the 70's."
Nelson's touring and recording group is a collection of a number of longstanding members, including his sister Bobbie Nelson, longtime drummer and best friend Paul English, harmonicist Mickey Raphael, Bee Spears, Billy English (Paul's younger brother), and Jody Payne. Willie tours North America in his biodiesel (aka "BioWillie" - Willie Nelson Biodiesel) bus, the "Honeysuckle Rose IV."
Nelson's principal guitar is a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic, which he has named "Trigger", after Roy Rogers' horse. Constant strumming over the decades has worn a large sweeping hole into the guitar's body near the sound hole. Its soundboard has been signed over the years by over a hundred of Nelson's friends and associates, from fellow musicians to lawyers and football coaches. Legend has it that when the guitar finally wears beyond the point of being able to be played, he will permanently retire from the music business
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WISHING YOU A VERY BLESSED CHRISTMAS WITH LOTS OF HAPPINESS,LOVE AND GREAT HEALTH..AND A PEACEFUL 'NEW YEAR ' WITH ALL YOUR DREAMS COME YOUR WAY..THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP...BLESSINGS ALWAYS..DIMOND...
Thanks 4 the add,I have loved willies music ever since I was little and used to dance in the living room with my grandmom.My dad loves to tell the story of when he smoked a joint with willie outside a bar in oklahoma,he says that he doubts willie remembers though,cause willie was pretty drunk!!
IT IS A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU AS MY NEW MYSPACE FRIEND... I FIND YOUR MYSPACE PAGE YOUR TALENT AND YOUR ENTHUSIASIUM FOR MUSIC PLEASON’ TO MANY... I WELCOME YOU’RE OTHER MYSPACE FRIENDS TO VISIT MY MYSPACE PAGE THAT I’VE DEDICATED TO MY APPRECIATION OF MANY TALENTED GUITAR PLAYING MUSCIANS OF MANY STYLES... STOP BY CHECK IT OUT AND LEAVE A COMMENT IF YOU LIKE…
JUST ONE One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream. One tree can start a forest, One bird can herald spring. One smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soul. One star can guide a ship at sea, One word can frame the goal One vote can change a nation, One sunbeam lights a room One candle wipes out darkness, One laugh will conquer gloom. One step must start each journey. One word must start each prayer. One hope will raise our spirits, One touch can show you care. One voice can speak with wisdom, One heart can know what's true, One life can make a difference, You see, it's up to you! JOHN NEWTON
Love is like a butterfly in so many, many ways. It brings a bit of sunshine even on gloomy days. It makes our souls feel lighter just to know it's there And gives our spirits wings, as if floating in the air. It carries us to places that we never knew before And comes in many sizes, shapes and hues galore.
Once we've seen it, we wish to hold onto it so tight But like a frail butterfly, we must allow it free flight, For if we should try to cage it up and hold it in a pen, We'll surely crush its wings, and it'll never fly again. To keep that love glowing in our hearts each day, We must remember always to give some of it away.
Every little bit we give to someone else to share Comes back tenfold, and we've so much to spare. Put your love on gossamer wings, and give it flight; It will return to you, and bring you much delight.
Just wanted to drop you a few lines to see how your doing? Great I hope. It's a beautiful sunny day here and I'm just stopping by to visit you today to say hello. Been up since about 5:30 and got the bills paid and drank almost a whole pot of coffee. Now I'm wired for the rest of the day. Anyway I hope your day is a good one. Do take care and know your thought about in a special way. ..........your friend joe m cantrell aka {{jmc}}
The last time I shot a man, I shot him in the knee caps so he could feel how it feels to be in pain like a dumbass person treats a horse, and believe me there's alot of dumbass horse and mule owners!!!!!!!
The Eighties saw a series of hit singles: "Always on My Mind" (originally made popular by Elvis Presley), "On the Road Again" from the movie Honeysuckle Rose and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" (a duet with Julio Iglesias). There were also more popular albums, including Pancho & Lefty (1982, with Merle Haggard), WWII (1982, with Waylon Jennings) and Take it to the Limit (1983, with Waylon Jennings).
Nelson received Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. A star-studded television special celebrating his 70th birthday aired in 2003. In 2004, he released Outlaws & Angels, featuring guests Toby Keith, Joe Walsh, Merle Haggard, Kid Rock, Al Green, Shelby Lynne, Carole King, Toots Hibbert, Ben Harper, Lee Ann Womack, The Holmes Brothers, Los Lonely Boys, Lucinda Williams, Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis and Rickie Lee Jones.
