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Circle: A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter (1979) (TV) Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration (1979) ....Disney's Wonderful World (USA: new title) ...The Disney Sunday Movie (USA: new title) ...Walt Disney Presents (USA: new title) ...You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers.With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb.Internet Movie Database Inc.Terms and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.Please discuss this on the talk page and read the lead section guide to ensure it summarizes the article.This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.Please improve this article if you can.Willie Nelson (born Willie Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas.He is widely viewed as one of the most beloved and notorious country music singers in the world.Early life and career
1.Hits, excesses, and Farm Aid
1.In 1956, Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, to begin a musical career, recording "Lumberjack," which was written by Leon Payne.Nelson continued to work as a radio announcer in Vancouver and sing in clubs.Willie Nelson performing at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.Popular songwriter
Nelson moved to Tennessee, but was unable to land a record label contract.While playing with Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, many of Nelson's songs became hits for some of country and pop music's biggest stars of the time.Nelson signed with Liberty Records in 1961 and released several singles, including "Willingly" (sung with his wife, Shirley Collie) and "Touch Me.""Night Life" was also recorded by convicted killer and former cult leader Charles Manson.He was unable to keep his momentum going, however, and Nelson's career ground to a halt.Austin
In 1965, Nelson moved to RCA Victor Records and joined the Grand Ole Opry.He followed this with a series of minor hits.While in Austin, with its burgeoning "hippie" music scene (see Armadillo World Headquarters), 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.Outlaw country
Nelson signed with Atlantic Records and 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."Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser), country music's first platinum album.One of his more popular recent cameos was a performance in Half Baked as an elderly "Historian Smoker" who, while smoking marijuana, would reminisce about how things used to be in his younger years.He has made guest appearances on Miami Vice, Delta, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, Monk, Dr.DVD movie prequel The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007) (V).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.He released The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?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.Nelson received Kennedy Center Honors in 1998.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.National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) advisory board.He has worked with NORML for years for marijuana decriminalization and has produced commercials for NORML that have appeared on Pot TV programs.Austin Music Hall to benefit the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.UNICEF and two other organizations.In 2005, he recorded a radio advertisement asking for support to put Friedman on the ballot as an independent candidate.Nelson is an advocate for horses and their treatment.He is on the Board of Directors and has adopted a number of horses from Habitat for Horses.Willie Nelson founded the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute in April 2007.Personal life
Willie Nelson has been married five times and fathered nine children.Children are Paula Carlene and Amy Lee.Nelson can trace his genealogy back to the American Revolutionary War, in which his ancestor John Nelson served as a major.On September 18, 2006, Willie Nelson was issued misdemeanor citations for drug possession.Popular image
Willie Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon.His image is marked by his red hair, often divided into two long braids partially concealed under a bandana.At a press briefing that evening, legislator Jim McReynolds said, "We have not heard from Governor (Rick) Perry or Speaker (Tom) Craddick, but we have heard from the most powerful Texan of all, Willie Nelson."In 2005, Democratic Texas Senator Gonzalo Barrientos introduced a bill to name 49 miles of the Travis County section of Texas State Highway 130, after Nelson.The legislation was dropped after two Republican senators, Florence Shapiro and Jeff Wentworth, pulled the bill from the Senate's "Local and Uncontested Calendar" and Barrientos decided not to put it on the regular calendar.Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 and Bernie Taupin.Mendocino County is an actual county located in California.Mendocino county voters approved Measure G, which calls for the decriminalization of marijuana when used and cultivated for personal use.Other guests on, "The Great Divide" include: Kid Rock, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and Alison Krauss.Willie also covered Cyndi Lauper's, "Time After Time."Willie Nelson performed a duet on "Beer for my Horses" with Toby Keith on Keith's Unleashed album released in 2002.This song was released as a single in 2003 and Nelson shot a video with Keith in 2003.It won an award for "Best Video" at the Academy of Country Music Awards held on May 26, 2004.Since then, Nelson has heavily promoted the chain (including on a special on Food Network).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?""Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."Ned Sublette and had also been covered, prior to Nelson's version, by queercore band Pansy Division.In 2006, Julio Iglesias recorded Willie's hit "Always on My Mind" for Iglesias' upcoming Romantic Classics album, due out September 19, 2006.This song was recorded 20 years after Julio and Willie teamed up for "To All the Girls I've Loved Before."In the April 2007 issue of Stuff Magazine Nelson was interviewed about his long locks.While most of the tunes are originals, written by Nelson himself, the album will also feature a deut with Kenny Chesney on the song "Worry B.Also Nelson covers many classics.The January 2008 issue of the High Times magazine has Willie Nelson on the cover with an interview.Nelson's touring and recording group is a collection of a number of longstanding members, including his sister Bobbie Nelson, longtime drummer Paul English, harmonicist Mickey Raphael, Bee Spears, Billy English (Paul's younger brother), and Jody Payne.Constant strumming over the decades has worn a large sweeping hole into the guitar's body near the sound hole.Discography
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Abbott, Texas, U.Willie Nelson (born Willie Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas.Early life and career
1.Drivin' American troubadour
1.Willie played the guitar, while his sister Bobbie played the piano.He met Bud Fletcher, a fiddler, and two siblings joined his band, Bohemian Fiddlers, while Nelson was in high school.While singing locally in honky tonk bars.In 1956, Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, to begin a musical career, recording "Lumberjack," which was written by Leon Payne.The single sold fairly well, but did not establish a career.Willie Nelson performing at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.Popular songwriter
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."Night Life" was also recorded by convicted killer and former cult leader Charles Manson.Austin
In 1965, Nelson moved to RCA Victor Records and joined the Grand Ole Opry.Nelson retired and moved to Austin, Texas.Outlaw country
Nelson signed with Atlantic Records and 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."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" (which was written by Fred Rose in 1945).Along with Nelson, Waylon Jennings was also achieving success in country music in the early 1970s, and the pair were soon combined into a genre called outlaw country ("outlaw" because it did not conform to Nashville standards).Nelson's outlaw image was cemented with the release of the album Wanted: The Outlaws!He has continued acting since his early successes, but usually in smaller roles and cameos, some of which involve his status as a cannabis activist and icon.He has made guest appearances on Miami Vice, Delta, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, Monk, Dr.Hits, excesses, and Farm Aid
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 rather incongruous duet with Julio Iglesias).Lefty (1982, with Merle Haggard), WWII (1982, with Waylon Jennings) and Take it to the Limit (1983, with Waylon Jennings).They achieved unexpectedly massive success, including platinum record sales and worldwide touring.Many of his assets were auctioned and purchased by friends, who gave his possessions back to him or rented them at a nominal fee.He also performed a duet concert with fellow Highwayman Johnny Cash, recorded for the VH1 Storytellers series.Nelson received Kennedy Center Honors in 1998.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.The fuel is made from vegetable oil (mainly soybean oil), and can be burned without modification in diesel engines.Austin Music Hall to benefit the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.Nelson was a supporter of Kinky Friedman's campaign in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial election.In 2005, he recorded a radio advertisement asking for support to put Friedman on the ballot as an independent candidate.Nelson supported Dennis Kucinich's campaign in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries.He raised money, appeared at events, composed a song ("Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?"Nelson is an honorary trustee of the Dayton International Peace Museum.He is on the Board of Directors and has adopted a number of horses from Habitat for Horses.Country Peach Cobbler Ice Cream".Jerry's voluntary recall of 250,000 pints of the new flavor on March 19, 2007, as wheat was incorrectly excluded from the list of ingredients.Willie Nelson founded the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute in April 2007.Personal life
Willie Nelson has been married five times and fathered nine children.Children are Lana, Susie, and Billy (who died in 1991).Children are Paula Carlene and Amy Lee.Nelson can trace his genealogy back to the American Revolutionary War, in which his ancestor John Nelson served as a major.On September 18, 2006, Willie Nelson was issued misdemeanor citations for drug possession.Hop band Kottonmouth Kings produced a song regarding this entitled "Free Willy" trying to convince people that this was not a crime, and he should not be imprisoned for it.Popular image
Willie Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon.At a press briefing that evening, legislator Jim McReynolds said, "We have not heard from Governor (Rick) Perry or Speaker (Tom) Craddick, but we have heard from the most powerful Texan of all, Willie Nelson."The legislation was dropped after two Republican senators, Florence Shapiro and Jeff Wentworth, pulled the bill from the Senate's "Local and Uncontested Calendar" and Barrientos decided not to put it on the regular calendar.Objections were based on Nelson's lack of connection to the highway and the Republicans' objections to Nelson's fundraisers for Democrats and his drinking.Before the tragedy, an unrelated William "Willie" Nelson repeatedly warned residents of possible dam failure.Other guests on, "The Great Divide" include: Kid Rock, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, and Alison Krauss.Willie Nelson performed a duet on "Beer for my Horses" with Toby Keith on Keith's Unleashed album released in 2002.This song was released as a single in 2003 and Nelson shot a video with Keith in 2003.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.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).This song was recorded 20 years after Julio and Willie teamed up for "To All the Girls I've Loved Before."While most of the tunes are originals, written by Nelson himself, the album will also feature a deut with Kenny Chesney on the song "Worry B.Also Nelson covers many classics.The January 2008 issue of the High Times magazine has Willie Nelson on the cover with an interview.Nelson's guitar "Trigger" taken September 6, 2007."Trigger", after Roy Rogers' horse.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.Discography
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In his long and eclectic career, Willie Nelson has recorded country music, standards, gospel, and much more.Get his latest album Country Man.His previous album Milk Cow Blues, his third album for Island Records and his first blues release, Willie Nelson leaves his mark on yet another chunk of the American musical landscape.Susan Tedeschi, Keb' Mo', Francine Reed (who usually duets with Nelson's fellow Texan, Lyle Lovett), and blues prodigies Johnny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.Born in 1933 in the tiny Central Texas farming community of Abbott, Willie Nelson grew up in a world permeated with music: The gospel songs of the grandparents who raised him; the blues and Mexican corridas that eased the labor of the cotton fields; the country and Western Swing hits filling the airwaves from Nashville and Fort Worth...Nelson during a break at this year's annual Fourth of July Picnic.In addition to the title track, the album also includes Nelson's renditions of B.Stoller classic "Kansas City," "Ain't Nobody's Business" (recorded by Billie Holiday and numerous others), Bob Wills' "Sittin' On Top of the World," Larry Davis' signature song "Texas Flood," (which also became a trademark tune for Stevie Ray Vaughan), Charles Brown's mournful "Black Night," and others.Wine, was recorded in 1971), gospel albums, jazz albums, movie soundtracks, myriad duet projects, Christmas albums, live albums, and an album of standards (1978's Stardust), which has become a standard in itself.Outside the recording studio, Nelson established himself as a champion for the family farmer with his annual Farm Aid concerts.Military service: US Air ForceHis parents divorced when Willie Nelson was a very young boy, and it was the heart of the depression, so Nelson and his sister were entrusted to their paternal grandparents.Raised in a tiny farm town and calling his grandparents Daddy and Mama, the children came to love music, and each child was allowed to select an instrument to learn.Willie Nelson chose the guitar; his sister chose the piano.He gave his first public performance at four, and worked his first professional gig at a local dance when he was ten.By his high school years he was playing in a band, and the group's fiddler ended up marrying Nelson's sister.He joined the cast of the Grand Ole Opry in 1963, both on stage and in Ernest Tubb's Grand Ole Opry TV show.And all through the '60s, he always performed in a suit, with an ordinary haircut.He has had more than twenty number one songs, including "Always on My Mind", "Georgia on My Mind", "Highwayman" (with Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson), "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (with Waylon Jennings), "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys", "On the Road Again", and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" (with Julio Iglesias).Cherokee Indian, 16 years old when she married Nelson, who was 17.Their marriage was a wildly unstable adventure in drinking, cheating, and physical fights.Their marriage ended when she opened the mail one day, and found a hospital bill from the maternity ward, where Connie Koepke, a mistress Nelson's wife had not known about, had delivered his son.His 1978 album Stardust, a collection of American pop classics, stayed on the charts for a remarkable ten years, and sold more than five million copies.Since 1985, Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp have organized numerous Farm Aid concerts, with the proceeds used to help and lobby for family farmers.Nelson responded with the album The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories, with all profits directed to paying his back taxes.In 2004, he started the Willie Nelson Biodiesel Company, which produces and markets a substitute for diesel fuel made from vegetable oil and animal oils.He has also been an outspoken proponent for legalization of marijuana, and for banning the slaughter of horses for meat.Nelson's sister Bobbie has played the piano in his band since long before he was famous, but says she thinks of all the boys in the band as her brothers.The band's bus, of course, runs on Nelson's biodiesel.In 2006, police found a pound and a half of marijuana and several ounces of psychedelic mushrooms on Nelson's tour bus.Father: Ira Doyle Nelson (auto mechanic, b.Sister: Bobbie Lee Nelson (b.Nelson's band)Father: William Nelson (Ira Nelson's father, b.Mathews)Daughter: Susie Nelson (author, born 1956 with Mathews)Son: Billy (with Mathews, d.Wife: Shirley Collie (country singer, m.Collie)Wife: Connie Koepke (showgirl, m.Daughter: Amy (country music performer, b.Koepke)Son: Lukas (country music performer, b.Drug Possession: Marijuana St.W's top star hides away with his family, BYLINE: (photo by Harry Benson, of Willie Nelson, surrounded by wife and two kids)
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