Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, writer, poet, actor, and activist. The notable success of the Shotgun Willie album (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson is one of the most famous artists in country music. He was one of the leading figures of a country of criminals, a subgenre of country music that flourished in the late 1960s in reaction to Nashville's conservative restrictions on sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
Born during the Great Depression, and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at the age of seven and joined his first band in ten. During high school, he toured locally with Bohemian Polka as the lead singer and their guitarist. After graduating from high school in 1950, he joined the Air Force but was later dismissed for back problems. Upon his return, Nelson studied at Baylor University for two years but dropped out of school because he succeeded in music. During this time, he worked as a disc jockey on Texas radio stations and singers in honky-tonks. Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he wrote "Family Bible" and recorded the song "Lumberjack" in 1956. In 1958, he moved to Houston, Texas, after signing a contract with D Records. She sings at the Esquire Ballroom weekly and she works as a jockey disc. During that time, he wrote songs that would become the country's standard, including "Funny How Time Slips Away", "Hello Walls", "Pretty Paper", and "Crazy". In 1960 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and then signed a publishing contract with Pamper Music which allowed him to join band Price Ray as a bassist. In 1962, he recorded his first album, ... And Then I Wrote . Because of this success, Nelson was signed in 1964 with RCA Victor and joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year. After mid-chart hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Nelson retired in 1972 and moved to Austin, Texas. The ongoing music stream in Austin motivates Nelson to return from retirement, performing frequently at Armadillo World Headquarters.
In 1973, after signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson turned to a criminal state, including albums such as Shotgun Willie and Phases and Stages . In 1975, he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded a critically acclaimed album Red Reded Stranger. That same year, he recorded another country's misfit album, Wanted! The Outlaws , along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser. During the mid-1980s, when making hit albums like Honeysuckle Rose and recording hit songs such as "On the Road Again", "For All Girls I Love Before," and "Pancho and Lefty" , he joined the supergroup of The Highwaymen, along with fellow singers Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson.
In 1990, Nelson's assets were confiscated by the Internal Revenue Service, which claimed that he owed US $ 32 Ã, million . Her tremendous debt repayment difficulties were exacerbated by the weak investments she made during the 1980s. In 1992, Nelson released The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? ; advantage of a double album - destined for the IRS - and Nelson's asset auction clears its debts. During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson continued to tour extensively, and released albums each year. Reviews range from positive to mixed. He explores genres such as reggae, blues, jazz, and folk.
Nelson made his first film appearance in the 1979 movie The Electric Horseman , followed by other appearances in movies and on television. Nelson is the principal liberal activist and co-chair of the advisory board of the National Organization for Marijuana Law Reform (NORML), which supports the legalization of marijuana. In the environmental field, Nelson has a bio-diesel brand Willie Nelson Biodiesel, made from vegetable oils. Nelson is also the honorary chair of the Texas Music Project Advisory Council, the official Texas music charity organization.
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Willie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, on April 29, 1933, during the Great Depression, to Myrle Marie (nÃÆ' Â © e Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson. She was born on April 29, but her birth was recorded by doctor F. D. Sims on April 30. She was named Willie by her cousin Mildred, who also chose Hugh as her middle name, in honor of her recently deceased brother. Her parents moved from Arkansas in 1929, to find a job. Nelson's grandfather, William, worked as a blacksmith, while his father worked as a mechanic.
His mother left soon after he was born, and his father remarried and also moved, leaving Willie and his sister Bobbie to be raised by their grandparents. The Nelsons family, who teaches singing back in Arkansas, start their grandchildren in music. Nelson's grandfather bought him a guitar when he was six, and taught him several chords, and with his sister Bobbie, he sang gospel songs in a local church. He wrote his first song at the age of seven, and when he was nine years old, played guitar for local band Bohemian Polka. During the summer, the family picked cotton along with other Abbottians. Nelson does not like picking cotton, so he gets money by singing in dance halls, taverns and honorable tonks from the age of 13, and continues until high school. The influence of Nelson's music is Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Django Reinhardt, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong.
Nelson attended Abbott High School, where he spent half an hour on football teams, guards on basketball and shortstop teams in baseball. He also raises pigs with the organization's Future Farmers of America. While still at school he sang and played guitar in The Texas, a band formed by the husband of his sister, Bud Fletcher. The band plays on honky tonks, and also has a Sunday morning venue at KHBR in Hillsboro, Texas. Meanwhile, Nelson has a brief assignment as a relief phone operator in Abbott, followed by a job as a tree trimmer for a local power company, as well as a mortgagee employee. After leaving school, in 1950, he joined the United States Air Force for eight to nine months.
Upon his return, in 1952, he married Martha Matthews, and from 1954 to 1956 studied farming at Baylor University. Nelson joined the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, but dropped out of school to pursue a career in music. He works as a bouncer for a nightclub, as a partman in autohouse, a saddle maker and a tree trimmer again. He later joined the band Johnny Bush. Nelson moved with his family to Pleasanton, Texas, where he auditioned for disc jockeys at KBOP. The station owner, Dr. Ben Parker, gave Nelson a job even though he had less experience working on the radio. With equipment from the station, Nelson made his first two recordings in 1955: "The Storm Has Just Begun" and "When I've Sung My Last Hillbilly Song". He recorded the tracks on the used tapes, and sent a demo to a local label SARG Records, which rejected him.
Nelson then runs his duties for KDNT in Denton, Texas, KCUL, and KCNC in Fort Worth, Texas, where he hosts The Western Express, teaches Sunday school and he plays in nightclubs. He then decided to move to San Diego. He could not find a job there, and decided to go to Portland, Oregon, where his mother lived. Nelson tried to ride, but after no one picked him up, he slept in a ditch. He then found the nearest railway yard and boarded the freight trains that left him in Eugene. A truck driver then drove Nelson to a bus station and lent him $ 10 for a ticket to get to Portland.
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Music career
Beginning (1956-1971)
Nelson is employed by KVAN in Vancouver, Washington and often appears on television shows. He made his first record in 1956, "No Place For Me", which included Leon Payne's "Lumberjack" on the B-side. The recording failed. Nelson continues to work as a radio broadcaster and sing at Vancouver clubs. He made several appearances at a Colorado nightclub, then moved to Springfield, Missouri. After failing to land a place in Ozark Jubilee, he started working as a dishwasher. Not happy with his job, he moved back to Texas. After a short time in Waco, he settled in Fort Worth, and quit the music business for a year. He sold the bible and vacuum cleaner door to door, and eventually became a sales manager for Encyclopedia Americana .
After his son Billy was born in 1958, his family moved to Houston, Texas. On the way, Nelson stopped at the Esquire Ballroom to sell the original song to the band's singer Larry Butler. Butler refused to buy the song "Mr. Record Man" for US $ 10 instead of giving Nelson a $ 50 loan to rent an apartment and a six-night singing job at the club. Nelson rented an apartment near Houston in Pasadena, Texas, where he also worked on a radio station as a disc jockey. During this time, he recorded two singles for Pappy Daily on D Records "Man With The Blues"/"The Storm Has Just Begun" and "What A Way to Live"/"Misery Mansion". Nelson was later hired by guitar instructor Paul Buskirk to work as an instructor at his school. He sold "Family Bible" to Buskirk for US $ 50 and "Night Life" for US $ 150 . "Family Bible" turned into a hit for Claude Gray in 1960.
Nelson moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1960, but could not find a label to sign him. During this period he often spent time in Orchid Lounge Tootsie, a bar near the Grand Ole Opry frequented by performing stars and other singers and songwriters. There Nelson meets Hank Cochran, a songwriter who works for the publishing company, Pamper Music, owned by Ray Price and Hal Smith. Cochran heard Nelson during the jam session with Buddy Emmons and Jimmy Day. Cochran had just gained US $ 50 per week, but convinced Smith to pay Nelson the money instead to sign him to Pamper Music. Upon hearing Nelson sing "Hello Walls" in Tootsie, Faron Young decided to record it. After Ray Price recorded "Night Life" Nelson, and bassist Johnny Paycheck quit, Nelson joined Price touring band as a bass player. While playing with Price and Cherokee Cowboys, his songs became hits for other artists, including "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Pretty Paper" (Roy Orbison), and, most famously, "Crazy" by Patsy Cline. Nelson and Cochran also met Klein's husband, Charlie Dick in Tootsie. Dick liked Nelson's song he heard in the jukebox at the bar. Nelson played it a demo tape "Crazy." That night Dick played the cassette for Klein, who decided to record it. "Crazy" became the biggest jukebox hit of all time.
Nelson signed a contract with Liberty Records and recorded in August 1961 at Quonset Hut Studio. His first two successful singles as an artist were released the following year, including "Willingly" (a duet with his second wife, Shirley Collie, who became his first chart, the first Top Ten at No. 10) and "Touch Me" (the second Top Ten , stop at No. 7). Nelson's ownership in Liberty produced his first album titled ... And Then I Wrote , released in September 1962. In 1963 Collie and Nelson married in Las Vegas. He then worked at West Coast Pamper Records office, in Pico Rivera, California. Since the job did not give him time to play his own music, he left it and bought a farm in Ridgetop, Tennessee, outside Nashville. Fred Foster of Monument Records signed Nelson in early 1964, but only one was released: "I Never Cared For You".
In the fall of 1964, Nelson had moved to RCA Victor on the orders of Chet Atkins, signing a contract of US $ 10,000 per year. Country Willie - His Own Songs became RCA's first album Victor Nelson, recorded in April 1965. That same year he joined the Grand Ole Opry, and he met and befriended Waylon Jennings after watching one the show. in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1967, he formed his supporting band "The Record Men", featuring Johnny Bush, Jimmy Day, Paul English and David Zettner. During his first few years at RCA Victor, Nelson had no significant influence, but from November 1966 to March 1969, his single reached the Top 25 consistently. "One in the Row" (# 19, 1966), "The Party's Over" (# 24 during the 16-week chart running in 1967), and the cover of Morecambe & amp; Wise's "Bring Me Sunshine" (# 13, March 1969) is Nelson's best-selling record during his time with RCA.
In 1970, most of the song royalties were invested in tours that did not generate significant returns. In addition to problems in his career, Nelson divorced Shirley Collie in 1970. In December, his ranch in Ridgetop, Tennessee was burned. He interpreted the incident as a signal for change. He moved to a farm near Bandera, Texas, and married Connie Koepke. In early 1971 the single "I'm a Memory" reached the top 30. After recording his last single RCA - "Mountain Dew" (backed by "Phase, Stages, Circles, Cycles and Scenes") at the end of April 1972, RCA requested that Nelson renew his contract ahead of schedule, with the implication that RCA would not release his latest record if he does not do it. Due to the failure of his album, and especially frustrated by the reception of Yesterday's Wine, even though his contract is not over, Nelson decides to retire from the music.
The country of criminals and success (1972-1989)
Nelson moved to Austin, Texas, where a growing hippie music scene (see Armadillo World Headquarters) rejuvenates the singer. His popularity in Austin jumped as he played his own country music characterized by country, folk and jazz influences. In March, she appeared on the last day of Dripping Springs Reunion, a three-day state music festival aimed at by producers to become an annual event. Despite the failure to achieve the expected presence, the concept of the festival inspired Nelson to create the Fourth of July Picnic, his own annual event, beginning the following year.
Nelson decided to go back to the record business, he signed Neil Reshen as his manager to negotiate with RCA, who was labeled to agree to terminate his contract on a payment of US $ 14,000. Reshen eventually signed Nelson to Atlantic Records for US $ 25,000 per year, where he became the country's first label artist. He formed his supporting band, The Family, and in February 1973, he recorded his famous Shotgun Willie voice at Atlantic Studios in New York City.
Shotgun Willie , released in May 1973, got a very good review but did not sell well. The album took Nelson to a new style, then stated that Shotgun Willie had cleared his throat. The next release, Phase and Stages , released in 1974, is a concept album about couples divorce, inspired by his own experience. The side of one note is from a woman's point of view, and the two side is from a male's point of view. The album included the hit single "Bloody Mary Morning." That same year, he produced and starred in the pilot episode of PBS ' Austin City Limits .
Nelson then moved to Columbia Records, where he signed a contract that gave him full creative control, made possible by the critical and commercial success of his previous album. The result was a critically acclaimed 1975 draft album, Red Headed Stranger . Although Columbia is reluctant to release albums with mainly guitars and pianos for escorts, Nelson and Waylon Jennings insist. The album included the cover of Fred Rose's 1945 song "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", which had been released as the previous single to the album, and became Nelson's first number as a singer. Throughout his 1975 tour, Nelson raised funds for PBS affiliate stations throughout the south promoting the Austin City Limit . The pilot was first aired on the station, then released nationally. The positive reception of the show prompted PBS to order ten episodes for 1976, officially launching the show.
Because Jennings also achieved success in country music in the early 1970s, the couple was incorporated into a genre called the country of criminals, because it did not comply with Nashville standards. This album Wanted! The Outlaws in 1976 with Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser cementing the couple's couple's image and becoming the band's first ever platinum music album. Later that year Nelson released The Sound in Your Mind (gold certified in 1978 and platinum in 2001) and his first Gospel album Troublemaker (gold certified in 1986).
In the summer of 1977, Nelson discovered that Reshen had filled out the tax extension and had not paid the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) since he took over as his manager. In June, a packet of cocaine was shipped from Reshen's office in New York to Jennings in Nashville. The package was followed by DEA, and Jennings was arrested. The charge was later dropped, as Reshen's assistant Mark Rothbaum stepped in and took the charges. Rothbaum was sentenced to serving a sentence in prison. Impressed by his attitude, Nelson dismissed Reshen and hired Rothbaum as his manager. In 1978, Nelson released two more platinum albums. One, Waylon & amp; Willie , is a collaboration with Jennings which includes "Mammas Do not Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys", a hit single written and performed by Ed Bruce. Although analysts predict that Stardust will ruin his career, it becomes platinum in the same year. Nelson continued to top the charts with hit songs during the late 1970s, including "Good Hearted Woman", "Remember Me", "If You Have Money, I Have Time," and "Uncloudy Day".
During the 1980s, Nelson recorded a series of hit singles including "Midnight Rider", a 1980 cover of Nelson's recorded Allman Brothers for The Electric Horseman, the On the Road Again soundtrack of the movie > Honeysuckle Rose , and a duet with Julio Iglesias entitled "To All the Girls I've Loved Before".
In 1982, Pancho & amp; Lefty , a duet album with Merle Haggard produced by Chips Moman was released. During the recording sessions of Pancho and Lefty, session guitarist Johnny Christopher and co-writer of "Always on My Mind", tried to sing the song to Haggard who was not interested. Nelson, who did not know the Elvis Presley version of the song asked him to record it. Produced by Moman, the single is released, as well as an album of the same name. Top singles of Billboard's Hot Country Singles, meanwhile, reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100. This release won three awards during the 25th Annual Grammy Awards: Song of the Year, Best Country Song and Best Male Country Performance Vocals. The single is certified platinum; while the album was quadruple-platinum certified, and then inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.
Meanwhile, two collaborations with Waylon Jennings were released; WWII in 1982, and Bring to the Limit , another collaboration with Waylon Jennings was released in 1983. In the mid-1980s, Nelson, Jennings, Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash formed The Highwaymen, who achieved platinum sales records and toured the world. Meanwhile, he became more involved with charity work, such as singing at We are the World in 1984. In 1985, Nelson succeeded again with Half Nelson, a compilation album from duets with various artists like Ray Charles and Neil Young. In 1980, Nelson appeared in the southern courtyard of the White House. The September 13 concert featured First Lady Rosalynn Carter and Nelson in Ray Wylie Hubbard's duet "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother". Nelson often visits the White House, where, according to a biography by Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life , he smokes marijuana on the roof of the White House.
IRS and next career (1990-present)
In 1990, the IRS confiscated most of Nelson's assets, claiming that he owed US $ 32,000,000. In addition to the unpaid taxes, Nelson's situation was exacerbated by the weak investment he made during the early 1980s. In 1978, after he sacked Reshen, Nelson was introduced by Dallas lawyer Terry Bray to the office of Price Waterhouse accountant. To pay Reshen's debt was made with the IRS, Nelson advised to invest in a tax shelter that eventually failed. While the IRS banned its cuts for 1980, 1981 and 1982 (when Nelson's income was multiplied), due to penalties and interest, the debt increased by the end of the decade.
His lawyer, Jay Goldberg, negotiated the amount to be reduced to US $ 16,000,000. Later, Nelson's lawyers renegotiated the settlement with the IRS in which he paid US $ 6,000,000, though Nelson did not comply with the agreement. Nelson released The IRS Tapes: Who 'll Buy My Memories? as a double album, with all the benefits reserved for the IRS. Many of his assets are auctioned off and bought by friends, who donate or rent his belongings to him at a nominal cost. He sued Price Waterhouse, arguing that they put his money in an illegal tax shelter. The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount and Nelson cleared his debt in 1993.
During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson toured constantly, recorded several albums including 1998 which were critically acclaimed Teatro , and performed and recorded with other acts including Phish, Johnny Cash, and Toby Keith. His duet with Keith, "Beer for My Horses", was released as a single and topped the Billboard Song Hot Country Song for six consecutive weeks in 2003, while the accompanying video won the award for "Best Videos" at the 2004 Academy of Music Country Awards. USA Network's special television celebrated Nelson's 70th birthday, and Nelson released The Essential Willie Nelson as part of the celebration. Nelson also appeared on the 2003 Ringo Starr album
Nelson appeared on Toots and Maytals' album Tragedy Love by Toots and Maytals, who won the Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Reggae Album, and featured many famous musicians including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Trey Anastasio, Gwen Stefani/No Doubt, Ben Harper, Bonnie Raitt, Manu Chao, Roots, Ryan Adams, Keith Richards, Toots Hibbert, Paul Douglas, Jackie Jackson, Ken Boothe, and The Skatalites. In the following year 2005, Nelson released a reggae album titled "Countryman " featuring Toots Hibbert from Toots and Maytals on the song "I'm a Worried Man".
Nelson held the 2005 Austin Tsunami Relief concert to Asia to benefit the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which raised about US $ 75,000 for UNICEF. Also in 2005, the live performance of Johnny Cash song "Busted" with Ray Charles was released on Charles duet album Genius & amp; Friends . Nelson's 2007 appearance with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis at Lincoln Center, was released as a live album Two Men with the Blues in 2008; reached number one on Billboard's Top Jazz Album and number twenty on Billboard 200. In the same year, Nelson recorded his first album with Buddy Cannon as a producer, Moment Forever . Cannon became acquainted with Nelson before, during his collaborative production with Kenny Chesney on the duet "That Lucky Old Sun", for a Chesney album of the same name. In 2009 Nelson and Marsalis joined Norah Jones in a tribute concert to Ray Charles, who produced the album We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles, released in 2011.
In 2010, Nelson released Country Music , a standard compilation produced by T-Bone Burnett. The album peaked at number four on Billboard's Top Country Album, and twenty on Billboard 200. It was nominated for Best Americana Album at the Grammy 2011 Awards. In 2011 Nelson participated in the Kokua For Japan concert, a fundraiser for the victims of the 2011 T-hsu earthquake and tsunami in Japan that raised US $ 1.6 million.
In February 2012, Legacy Recordings signed an agreement with Nelson that included the release of new material, as well as previous releases to be selected and equipped with censored and other material chosen. With a new deal, Buddy Cannon returned to produce Nelson's recordings. After selecting the material and the sound of the song with the singer, Cannon's work method consisted of recording a song with a studio musician, which was later taken on a separate session by Nelson with his guitar. The Cannon Association to Nelson is also extended to songwriting, with singers and producers composing lyrics with text messaging.
Nelson's first release for Legacy Recordings was Heroes , which included guest appearances by his sons Lukas and Micah from the Insects vs Robots band, Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Snoop Dogg, Kris Dayanti, Jamey Johnson, Billy Joe Shaver and Sheryl Crow. This album reached number four on Billboard's Top Country Albums. The 2013 launch of To All the Girls... , a duet collection with all female couples featuring Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Rosanne's Cash, Sheryl Crow, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert. The album goes to Billboard's Top Country Albums at number two, marking its highest position on the chart since its 1989 release A Horse Called Music, and expanding its record to a total. the top forty-six albums in the country chart. Nelson also scored the top ten second albums on Billboard 200, with an entry release at number nine.
The next release is the Band of Brothers , in 2014, the first Nelson album featuring the newest self-made songs since 1996 Spirit . Once released, it topped the Billboard's Top Country album album, the first time since 1986 The Promiseland , the last Nelson album on it. This release reached number five on Billboards 200, Nelson's highest position on the chart since 1982's Always on My Mind. In December 2014, a duet with Rhonda Vincent, "Just Me", occupied Bluegrass Unlimited's National Airplay chart. In June 2015, his collaboration with Haggard Django and Jimmie topped Billboard's Album Top Country Album and reached number seven on Billboard 200.
In 2017 Nelson released the Child God Problem . The release, comprised mostly of Nelson's original written along with Cannon, enters the Top country album at number one, while it reaches number ten on Billboards 200.
Other businesses
Nelson's acting debut was in the 1979 movie The Electric Horseman followed by appearances at Honeysuckle Rose Thieves , and Barbarosa > me. He played Red Loon's role in Coming Out of the Ice in 1982 and starred in Songwriter two years later. He played a major role in the 1986 film version of his album Red Headed Stranger . Other movies played by Nelson include Wag the Dog , Gone Fishin ' (as Billy' Catch 'Pooler), television movie 1986 Stagecoach Cash), Half Baked , Beerfest , The Dukes of Hazzard , Surfer, Dude and Swing Vote . He also made guest appearances at Miami Vice (episode "El Viejo" 1986), Delta , < i> The Simpsons , Monk , Adventure in the Magic State , Dr. Quinn, Medical Women , King of Hill , Colbert Reports, Swing Sounds and Beach Ghosts Beach >
In 1988 his first book, Willie: An Autobiography , was published. The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes , personal recollections of the tour and musical stories of his career, combined with song lyrics, followed in 2002. In 2005 he co-wrote
In 2002, Nelson became the official spokesperson of Texas Roadhouse, a chain of steak restaurants. Nelson greatly promoted the chain and appeared on the Special Food Network. The chain is installed Willie's Corner , a section dedicated to it and decorated with Willie memorabilia, in several locations.
In 2008, Nelson reopened Willie's Place, a truck stop in Carl's Corner, Texas. The US Bankruptcy Court allows Nelson to invest in it. This establishment has about 80 employees and is used as a concert hall with a bar and dance floor area of ​​1,000 square feet (93 m). It was closed in 2011 after a failed loan, which led to foreclosures and bankruptcies. In 2010, Nelson was founded with the collaboration of producer and filmmaker Luck Films, a company dedicated to producing feature films, documentaries and concerts. The following year, he created the Willie Roadhouse, which was broadcast on SiriusXM radio channel 56. The channel is the result of the merger of two other channels The Roadhouse and Willie's Place .
In November 2014, it was announced that Nelson would host the Inside Arlyn television series, taken at Arlyn Studio in Austin, Texas. The first season of thirteen episodes will feature artists interviewed by Nelson and Dan Rather, followed by performances. The series concept received attention from the cable channel being asked to view the pilot episode.
After legalizing marijuana in various states, Nelson announced in 2015 through a spokesman for Michael Bowman forming his own cannabis brand, Willie's Reserve. Plans to open chain stores in the state where marijuana is legalized are announced, to be expanded country-to-country if the legalization of marijuana is further expanded. Bowman called the brand "the peak of vision (Nelson), and his whole life".
In 2017, he appeared as himself in the live film Woody Harrelson, Lost in London .
In June 2017, Nelson appeared with Merle Haggard in The American Epic Sessions documentary directed by Bernard MacMahon. They performed the song Haggard made for the movie, "The Only Man Wilder Than Me", and Bob Wills's classic "Old Fashioned Love", which they recorded directly to the disc on the first electric sound recording system of the 1920s. That is the last appearance of this couple. Rolling Stone commented that "in the last performance of the Session, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard perform a duet of 'The Only Man Wilder Than Me.' Haggard has a joyful look on his face throughout the session in an old record setting once used by his musical hero. "
Music styles
Nelson uses a variety of musical styles to create a unique mix of country music, a mix of jazz, pop, blues, rock and folk. Her "unique voice", which uses "casual singing style, rear-the-beat and gut-string guitar" and "nasal and jazzy voice, off-center phrase", has been responsible for its wide appeal, and has made he was "a vital icon in country music", affecting "new states, new traditionalist movements, and alternative states of the 80s and 90s."
Guitar
In 1969, the Baldwin company gave Nelson an amplifier and electric guitars pickup three wires. During the show in Helotes, Texas, Nelson left the guitar on the floor of the stage, and was then trampled by a drunken man. He sent it for repair in Nashville by Shot Jackson, who told Nelson that the damage was too great. Jackson offers him the Martin N-20 Classic guitar, and, at Nelson's request, moves the pickup to Martin. Nelson bought a magic guitar for US $ 750 and named it with the Rogers Roy Rogers "Trigger". The following year Nelson rescued the guitar from his burning ranch.
Constant cuts with guitar picks for decades have been wearing large holes swept into the body of the guitar near the earpiece - the N-20 has no pick-guard since the classical guitar is meant to be played fingerstyle instead of with picks. His voice board has been signed by over a hundred friends and associates of Nelson, ranging from fellow musicians to lawyers and soccer coaches. The first sign on the guitar was Leon Russell, who asked Nelson initially to sign his guitar. When Nelson was about to sign with a marker, Russell asked him to scratch it, and explained that the guitar would be more valuable in the future. Interested in the concept, Nelson asked Russell to also sign his guitar. In 1991, during the process with the IRS, Nelson was worried that Trigger could be auctioned off, stating: "When Trigger goes, I will quit". He asked his daughter, Lana, to take the guitar from the studio before the IRS agent arrived there, and then drove her to Maui. Nelson then hid the guitar in his manager's house until his debt was paid off in 1993.
Activism
Nelson is active in a number of issues. Together with Neil Young and John Mellencamp, he founded Farm Aid in 1985 to help and raise awareness of the importance of family farming, following Bob Dylan's comments during the Live Aid concert that he hoped some of that money would help American farmers in jeopardy. losing their fields through mortgage debt. The first concert included Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, and Neil Young among many others, and raised more than $ 9 million for American family farmers. In addition to organizing and performing in annual concerts, Nelson is the president of the Agricultural Assistance council.
Nelson is one of the heads of the National Organization for Reform of the Council on Legal Advice on Ganja (NORML). He has worked with NORML for years, struggling to legalize marijuana. In 2005 Nelson and his family hosted the first annual event "Willie Nelson & NORML Benefit Golf Tournament", leading to a cover and interview appearance in the January 2008 edition of High Times magazine. After his arrest for possession of cannabis in 2010, Nelson created a TeaPot party with the motto "Taxing, organizing it, and legalizing it!"
In 2001, after the Sept. 11 attacks, he participated in America's Benefits Tel: A Tribute to Heroes, leading celebrity celebrities singing "America the Beautiful". In 2010, during an interview with Larry King, Nelson expressed his doubts related to attacks and official stories. Nelson explained that he could not believe that the buildings could collapse by plane, and consequently caused an explosion.
Nelson supported Dennis Kucinich's campaign in the 2004 Democratic presidential election. He raised money, appeared at events, and composed the song "What Happened to Peace on Earth?", Criticized the war in Iraq. He recorded a radio advertisement calling for support to put musician/writer Kinky Friedman on vote as an independent candidate for the 2006 Texas governor election. Friedman promised Nelson a job in Austin as head of the new Texas Energy Commission for his support of bio-fuels. In January 2008, Nelson filed a lawsuit against the Democratic Party of Texas, alleging that the party violated the First Amendment and Fourteenth United States Constitution by refusing to allow Kucinich's co-plaintiff to appear at the primary vote because he had scratched part of the oath of allegiance in his application.
In 2004, he and his wife Annie became partners with Bob and Kelly King in the construction of two Pacific Bio-diesel plants, one in Salem, Oregon, and the other at Carl's Corner, Texas (Texas factory founded by Carl Cornelius, Nelson's friend who had already old and namesake to Carl's Corner). In 2005, Nelson and several other business partners formed Willie Nelson Biodiesel ("Bio-Willie"), a company that markets bio-diesel bio-fuel to truck stops. Fuel is made from vegetable oil (especially soybean oil), and can be burned without modification on diesel engines.
Nelson is an advocate of better treatment for horses and has campaigned for part of the American Horse Prevention Prevention Act (H.R. 503/S. 311) along with the Animal Welfare Institution. He is on the board of directors and has adopted a number of horses from Habitat for Horses. In 2008, Nelson signed to alert consumers about the cruel and illegal living conditions for calves raised to produce milk for dairy products. He wrote letters to Land O'Lakes and Challenge Dairy, two large companies that use milk from calves raised in California's Mendes Calf Ranch, which employs intensive confinement practices that are the subject of lawsuits and campaigns filed by Animal Legal Defense. Fund. Nelson was spotted in the movie The Garden supporting the poor community of South Central Farm in Southern Los Angeles.
A supporter of the LGBT movement, Nelson was published in 2006 via iTunes version of "Cowboys Ned Sublette Is Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other", which met an instant success. During an interview with the Texas Monthly in 2013, regarding the Marriage Defense Act and same-sex marriage in the United States, Nelson responded to a comparison of interviewers made with the Civil Rights Movement, stating: "We I will look back and say it's crazy that we've even even argued about this ". He also presents two logos with the same pink sign, the symbol of the LBGT movement. The first one, showing the sign is represented with two long braids; while the second one, showing signs represented with two cigarette marijuana. The use of logos to viral directly on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
Personal life
Willie Nelson has been married four times and fathered seven children. His first marriage was Martha Matthews; it lasted from 1952 to 1962. The couple had three children: Lana, Susie and Willie "Billy" Hugh, Jr. Billy died of suicide in 1991. The marriage was marked by violence, with Matthews attacking Nelson several times, including one incident when he sewed it in the bed sheet and then beat him with a broom. Nelson's next marriage was to Shirley Collie in 1963. The couple divorced in 1971, after Collie found a bill from a Houston hospital maternity ward that was charged to Nelson and Connie Koepke for the birth of Paula Carlene Nelson. Koepke and Nelson married the same year, then had another daughter, Amy Lee Nelson. After the divorce in 1988, he married his current wife, Annie D'Angelo, in 1991. They have two sons, Luke Autry and Jacob Micha. Nelson traces his lineage to the American Revolutionary War, where his ancestor John Nelson served as a major.
Nelson has Luck, Texas , a farm in Spicewood, Texas, and also lives in Maui, Hawaii with some celebrity neighbors. While swimming in Hawaii in 1981, Nelson's lung collapsed. She was taken to Maui Memorial Hospital and her concert schedule was canceled. Nelson paused while smoking every time his lungs became solid, and returned when the jams ended. He then smokes between two and three packs a day. After suffering pneumonia several times, he decides to stop using marijuana or tobacco. He chose to stop from tobacco. In 2008 he started smoking cannabis with a carbon-free system to avoid smoke effects. In 2004 Nelson underwent surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome, as he had damaged his wrist by continuing to play the guitar. On the recommendation of his doctor, he canceled his concert schedule and only wrote songs during his recovery. In 2012 he canceled a fundraising event in the Denver area. She suffered from breathing problems due to her high altitude and emphysema and was taken to a local hospital. Her publicist Elaine Schock confirmed soon afterwards that Nelson's health was good and that she headed to the next scheduled concert in Dallas, Texas. After repeatedly experiencing pneumonia and emphysema for many years, Nelson undergo stem cell therapy in 2015 to improve the state of his lungs.
During his childhood, Nelson grew interested in martial arts. He ordered a self-defense guidebook on jujitsu and judo he saw advertised in Batman's and Superman comic book. Nelson started practicing kung fu formally after he moved to Nashville, in the 1960s. During the 1980s, Nelson began practicing in tae kwon do and now holds a second-level black belt in the discipline. During the 1990s, Nelson began practicing Korean martial arts GongKwon Yusul. In 2014, after twenty years in discipline, his Master, Sam Um, gave him a five-level black belt in a ceremony held in Austin, Texas. A 2014 Tae Kwon Do Times magazine interview reveals that Nelson has developed unorthodox training methods over a long period of time when he toured. Nelson will conduct martial arts training on his "The Honeysuckle Rose" tour bus and send a video to his Master's mentor for review and criticism. Legal issues
Nelson has been arrested several times due to possession of marijuana. The first opportunity was in 1974 in Dallas, Texas. In 1977 after a tour with Hank Cochran, Nelson went to The Bahamas. Nelson and Cochran arrived late to the airport and boarded the plane without luggage. The bags were then sent to them. When Nelson and Cochran claimed their suitcases in the Bahamas, a customs officer questioned Nelson after marijuana was found with his jeans. Nelson was arrested and imprisoned. When Cochran made arrangements to pay the bail, he took Nelson into a box of six cans of beer to his cell. Nelson was released a few hours later. Severe, he fell after he jumped celebrating and taken to the emergency room. He then appeared before the judge, who dropped the charges but ordered Nelson never to return to the country.
In 1994, a highway patrolman found marijuana in his car near Waco, Texas. His obligation to appear in court prevented him from attending the Grammy award that year. While traveling to Ann W. Richards's funeral in 2006, Nelson, along with his manager and his sister, Bobbie, was arrested at St. Martin Parish, Louisiana and was charged with possession of marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Nelson received a six-month trial period.
On November 26, 2010, Nelson was arrested in Sierra Blanca, Texas, having six ounces of marijuana found on tour buses while traveling from Los Angeles back to Texas. He was released after paying US $ 2,500. Prosecutor Kit Bramblett advocated not to punish Nelson for imprisonment for the small amount of marijuana involved, but suggested a $ 100 fine and told Nelson that he would have him sing "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" for the court. Judge Becky Dean-Walker said that Nelson had to pay a fine but not to perform a song, explaining that the prosecutor was joking. Nelson's lawyer, Joe Turner, reached an agreement with the prosecutor. Nelson will pay a $ 500 fine to avoid a two-year sentence with a 30-day review period, in which case another incident will terminate the agreement. The judge then refused the agreement, claiming that Nelson received preferential treatment for his celebrity status; offenses are usually done one year in prison. Bramblett stated that the case would remain open until it was dismissed or the judge changed his mind.
Legacy
Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon. He was inaugurated into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993, and he received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. In 2011, Nelson was elected to the National Agricultural Hall of Fame, for his work on Farm Aid and other fundraising to benefit farmers. In 2015 Nelson wins the Gershwin Prize, a lifetime Library of Congress award. In 2018 the Texas Letters Institute appointed him among his members for the writing of his song. He is included by Rolling Stone on the list of 100 Greatest Singers and 100 Greatest Guitarists .
In 2003, the Governor of Texas Perry signed Bill no. 2582, was introduced by Representatives of State Elizabeth Ames Jones and Senator Jeff Wentworth, who funded the Texas Music Project, the official state music charity. Nelson was appointed Honorary Chair of the Project Advisory Board. In 2005, Democratic Senator Texas Gonzalo Barrientos introduced a bill to name 49 miles (79 km) of Travis County on State Highway 130 after Nelson, and at one point 23 of 31 state senators became sponsors of the bill. The law was dropped after two Republican senators, Florence Shapiro and Wentworth, objected, citing the lack of Nelson's connection to the highway, raising funds for Democrats, drinking, and marijuana advocacy.
An important collection of materials Willie Nelson (1975-1994) became part of Wittliff's collection of Southwest Writers, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. This collection contains lyrics, scenarios, letters, concert programs, tour dates, posters, articles, clippings, personal items, promotional items, souvenirs and documents. This document documents the IRS of Nelson and how contributions of Agricultural Donations are used. Most of the material was collected by Nelson's friend Bill Wittliff, who wrote or co-wrote Honeysuckle Rose , Barbarosa and Red Headed Stranger . In 2014, Nelson donated his personal collection to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Items include photos, correspondence, songwriting, posters, certificate records, awards, signed books, scenarios, personal items and gifts and tributes from Nelson fans.
In April 2010, Nelson received The Nobelity Project's "Feed the Peace" award for his extensive work with Farm Aid and the overall contribution to world peace. On June 23, 2010, he was inducted into the National Recording Library Recorded Library. Nelson is the guardian of the Dayton International Peace Museum. In 2010, Austin, Texas was renamed Second Street to Willie Nelson Boulevard. The city also launched a life-size sculpture in his honor, placed at the entrance of Austin City Limits' new studio. The non-profit organization Capital Area Statues commissioned Clete Shields sculptors to carry out the project. The statue was inaugurated on April 20, 2012. The date chosen by the city of Austin inadvertently coincides with the 4/20 figure, related to the marijuana culture. Apart from Nelson's coincidence and advocacy for the legalization of marijuana, the ceremony is also scheduled for 4:20 pm. During the ceremony, Nelson performed the song "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die". That same year, Nelson was honored during the 46th Annual Country Music Association Award as the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, also named after him. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music. The following year, he was part of an inauguration class that was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. Also included among the first people who were sworn in were his friend Darrell Royal, whose Nelson's joining parties were a source of inspiration for the show.
Over the years, Nelson's image is marked by his red hair, often split into two long braids partially hidden under a bandana. In the April 2007 issue of Stuff Magazine Nelson was interviewed about the key length. "I started braiding my hair when it started too long, and that, I do not know, maybe in the 70s." On May 26, 2010, the Associated Press reported that Nelson had cut his hair, and Nashville music journalist Jimmy Carter published Nelson's photo without strings on his website. Nelson wanted a hair style that was easier to maintain, and helped him to stay cooler in his Maui home. In October 2014, Nelson's braids sold for US $ 37,000 at the Waylon Jennings real estate auction. In 1983, Nelson cut off his pigtails and gave it to Jennings as a gift when the party celebrated Jennings's frivolity.
Nelson's tour and recording group, Family, full of old members. The original lineup included his sister Bobbie Nelson, Paul English drummer, harmonicist Mickey Raphael, Bee Spears bassist, Billy English (Paul's younger brother), and Jody Payne. The current formation includes all members but Jody Payne, the retired, and Bee Spears, who died in 2011. Willie & The family toured North America on the Honeysuckle Rose bio-diesel bus, which was triggered by Bio-Willie. Nelson's travel buses were customized by the Florida Coach since 1979. The company built Honeysuckle Rose I in 1983, which was replaced after a collision in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1990. The interior was rescued and reused for the second version of bus in the same year. Nelson changed his tour buses in 1996, 2005 and 2013, currently on tour at Honeysuckle Rose V .
Discography
Studio album
Movieography
Bibliography
- Willie: An Autobiography , Simon & amp; Schuster, 1988, with Bud Shrake
- Other Facts of Life and Dirty Jokes , Random House, 2002
- Agricultural Aid: A Song for America , Rodale Books, preface by Willie Nelson, 2005
- Tao Willie: A Guide to Happiness in Your Heart , Gotham, 2006, with Turk Pipkin
- In the Way of Cleaning: Biodiesel and Future of Family Plantation , Fulcrum Publishing, 2007
- The Story of Tale of Luck (novel), Center Street, 2008, with Mike Blakely
- Scroll Me and Apply Me When I Die: Reflection From the Way , William Morrow, preface by Kinky Friedman, 2012
- Long Story: My Life , Small, Chocolate and Company, 2015 with David Ritz
- Beautiful Paper , Penguin Random House, 2016 with David Ritz
See also
- List of Country Music Hall of Fame adopted
- List of country music artists
- Music from Austin, Texas
References
Source
Further reading
- The Encyclopedia of Country Music , ed. Paul Kingsbury, pp.Ã, 374-76 "Willie Nelson", Bob Allen, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Nelson, Susie (1987). Hearing Used Memories: A Child's Personal Biography by Willie Nelson . Ed first. Eakin Press. ISBNÃ, 0-89015-608-5.
External links
- Official website
- Willie Nelson at AllMusic
- Willie Nelson at IMDb
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