This list was originally published in April 2016. “I thought it was the funniest thing in the world. “All of a sudden, we were outlaws,” Nelson told Rolling Stone in 2014, reflecting on the country music rebellion he was credited with launching. Available with an Apple Music subscription. His 1975 album Red Headed Stranger was a huge commercial success and, along with the 1978 album 'Stardust', made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. But as a fledgling performer in his own right, the clean-cut honky-tonker’s humble approach and conversational croon was increasingly. Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933)(1) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist. Whether he was crooning Countrypolitan fare in the Sixties - his 1962 debut album …And Then I Wrote is remarkable for its wealth of enduring songs - or busting down doors with Waylon Jennings in the Seventies, Nelson was always making waves with that unmistakable voice. Even before he became the Red Headed Stranger, Willie Nelson was already a Nashville songwriting legend, providing Patsy Cline with her 1961 signature tune, Crazy. It’s impossible to hear a Willie Nelson performance and not identify it as such. The Texas native has written some of music’s most important titles, from “Crazy,” made famous by Patsy Cline, to “Funny How Times Slips Away,” covered by Elvis Presley.Īnd then there are the songs with which he has become synonymous, thanks to his charmingly eccentric vocal delivery. Willie Nelson - Guitar Chord Songbook Gitarre A Good Hearted Woman Always On My Mind Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground Beer For My Horses Bloody. But the fact is that Nelson’s own works deserve a volume or two.
When Willie Nelson released his 2016 tribute album to the Gershwin brothers, he was showing his reverence for the Great American Songbook.
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