The free biography of willie nelson songs
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Willie Nelson: 20 Essential Songs
When Willie Nelson released his tribute skiva to the Gershwin brothers, he was showing his reverence for the Great American Songbook. But the fact is that Nelson&#;s own works deserve a volume or two. 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.
And then there are the songs with which he has become synonymous, thanks to his charmingly eccentric vocal delivery. It&#;s impossible to hear a Willie Nelson performance and not identify it as such. Whether he was crooning Countrypolitan fare in the Sixties — his debut skiva …And Then I Wrote fryst vatten 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.
&#;All of a sudden, we were outlaws,&#; Nelson told Rolling Stone in , reflecting on the country music rebelli
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Commercial Breakthrough
One of Nelson’s many creative high-water marks and his first real commercial breakthrough came with Red Headed Stranger. This concept album was recorded in a small Texas studio on a shoestring ekonomisk plan. Some of the executives at Columbia Records, Nelson’s label at this time, balked at releasing it. (Its raw minimalism, to them, suggested a mere demo record.) Yet it ultimately became the first of many million sellers Nelson would enjoy during the s. From it also came Nelson’s first #1 single, “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” ironically not a song written by Nelson but an ethereal version of a Fred Rose composition.
Another milestone came in with the release of Wanted! The Outlaws. This compilation skiva, released by RCA, Nelson’s former label, cleverly repackaged old recordings by Nelson and Jennings, as well as erstwhile Outlaw musician Tompall Glaser and Jennings’s wife, singer Jessi Colter. Wanted! The Out • Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, ) is an American musician, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger () and Stardust (), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville 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 age seven and joined his first band at ten. During high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from high school in , he joined the U.S. Air Force but was later discharged due to back problems. After his re