Willie Nelson

6.6	Listal rating

Stats

Birth Name: Willie Hugh Nelson

Age: 80, born 29 April 1933

Born and residing in: United States

Height: 5' 6"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Annie D'Angelo

Lists

46 votes

Other side of the photograph by Annie Leibovitz (19 items)
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Published 1 year, 5 months ago

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44 votes

Bands I've seen live (459 items)
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Published 2 years, 11 months ago

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37 votes

The Work of Annie Leibovitz (50 items)
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Published 2 years, 5 months ago

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23 votes

Famous Guitars! (18 items)
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Published 2 years ago

10 comments

10 votes

Directed by Michael Mann (140 items)
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Published 2 years, 10 months ago

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Photos

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About: This versatile, eclectic, rather wanderlust country crossover star known for his classic ballads ("Always On My Mind"), autobiographical road songs ("On the Road Again") and catchy rhythms ("Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") started out life as Willie Hugh Nelson on April 30, 1933, in Depression-era Abbot, Texas. After his mother abandoned the family and his father died, he and sister Bobbie Lee were raised by gospel-singing grandparents. Working This versatile, eclectic, rather wanderlust country crossover star known for his classic ballads ("Always On My Mind"), autobiographical road songs ("On the Road Again") and catchy rhythms ("Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") started out life as Willie Hugh Nelson on April 30, 1933, in Depression-era Abbot, Texas. After his mother abandoned the family and his father died, he and sister Bobbie Lee were raised by gospel-singing grandparents. Working in the cotton fields, Willie was handed his first guitar at age six and within a short time was writing woeful country songs and playing in polka bands. During his teenage years he played at high school dances and honky-tonks. He also worked for a local radio station and by graduation time he had become a DJ with his own radio show. Briefly serving a stint with the Air Force (discharged because of a bad back, which would plague him throughout his life), he sold his first song called "No Place For Me" while getting by with menial jobs as a janitor and door-to-door Bible salesman. Married in 1952 to a full-blooded Cherokee, he and first wife Martha had two children. He initially came to be known in Nashville for selling his songs to well-established country artists such as Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Faron Young ("Hello Walls") and Ray Price ("Night Life"). In 1962 he recorded a successful duet with singer Shirley Collie, whom he would later take as his second wife, but his career didn't progress despite joining the Grand 'Ol Opry. In the early 1970s, after extensive touring with his band (which included sister Bobbie on the piano) and experiencing a number of career downswings, he started performing and recording his own songs instead of selling them to others. Two of his albums, "Shotgun Willie" and "Phases and Stages", helped him gain some stature. In 1975 it all came together with the album "Red-Headed Stranger", which would become the top-selling country music album in history and propel him into the country music stratosphere. His offbeat phrasing, distinctive nasal tones and leathery, bewhiskered hippie-styled looks set a new standard for "outlaw" country music. Around 1978 Willie showed himself to be a loose and natural presence in front of the camera, thus launching a film career. He had roles in several movies, his first opposite Robert Redford and Jane Fonda in El jinete eléctrico (1979). His took to leading roles as a country music star in Honeysuckle Rose (1980), which would include a number of his songs on the soundtrack. He played opposite James Caan and Tuesday Weld in Ladrón (1981) and a legendary outlaw in the western Barbarosa (1982). In the movie Red Headed Stranger (1986), which was adapted from his hit 1975 album, he played a preacher, and he teamed up with pal Kris Kristofferson as a pair of country singers in Songwriter (1984). He and pal Kristofferson went on to form The Highwaymen with the late Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings and he successfully recorded and toured with the group for a number of years. They also teamed up to remake the classic western La diligencia (1939) as a TV movie (Stagecoach (1986) (TV)). As a unique song stylist, the bearded, braided-haired, bandanna-wearing non-conformist took a number of non-country standards and made them his own, including Elvis Presley's "You Were Always on My Mind" and Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind." He happily married fourth wife Ann-Marie in 1991 and has survived more hard times in recent years, including a $16.7-million debt to the IRS and the suicide of one of his sons, Billy. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993, Nelson received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. ... (more)

Musician (3), American (2), Country (2), Pop (1), United States (1), Icon (1), Guitar (1), T.v. Show (1), Redhead (1), Songwriter (1), Singer (1), The Simpsons Guest (1), Born 1933 (1), Male (1), Born In Texas (1), Rock (1)

Movies

1. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Rating:

2471 Watched

2. Wag the Dog (1997)

Rating:

6.8

526 Watched

3. The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

Rating:

4.7

568 Watched

4. Half Baked (1998)

Rating:

6.3

367 Watched

5. Beerfest (2006)

Rating:

5.1

315 Watched

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TV

1. Monk (2002)

Rating:

7.1

1087 Watched

2. Saturday Night Live (1975)

Rating:

7.4

870 Watched

3. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Rating:

7.2

522 Watched

4. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)

Rating:

5.5

292 Watched

5. Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1994)

Rating:

6.7

222 Watched

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Music

1. Red Headed Stranger

Rating:

8.7

11 own

2. Stardust

Rating:

8.1

4 own

3. Vh1 Storytellers

Rating:

8.2

7 own

4. The Essential Willie Nelson

Rating:

7.7

4 own

5. Always on My Mind

Rating:

7.3

5 own

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Books

1. The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

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2. The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes

Rating:

1 own

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Top 10 Classic Country Music Stars (10 person items)

" Willie Nelson is another living legend of Country Music. After growing up in Texas, he bacame a DJ and part-time performer, who came to Nashville to break into the music business. He had initial success as a songwriter. Some of his songs were big hits for other performers like Faron Young, Patsy Cline, and Ray Price. This led to Ray Price hiring Nelson as bass player in his band, The Cherokee Cowboys. In spite of the success of his songs, when it came time for Willie to cut an album under h"

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If the School Of Rock Was Real... (163 person items)

"Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. Born: April 30, 1933 (age 79), Abbott, USA"

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70's (43 person items)

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Top 25 Favorite Songs Of 2012 (25 person items)

"Song: Just Breathe (with Lukas Nelson) Album: Heroes http://youtu.be/ow-Cx9IX4So"

steven2185 added this to a list 5 months, 1 week ago

country music (24 person items)

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The Continuing List of Favorite Songs - 2012 (38 person items)

"Song: Just Breathe Album: Heroes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-Cx9IX4So"

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The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Ignores These Greats (8 person items)

"Blues men are not the only ones that can tell great stories, and we have to shine a light on country legends. Country was a big shape of Rock and Roll as well. I don't know much about Willie Nelson but I consider him a core influence of the genre, and a key player that deserves a lot of respect. Knowing he's not in the Hall is pretty much a joke, as this man has been around for so long, and wrote so many great songs. "

steven2185 added this to a list 9 months, 4 weeks ago

you inspire me (music) (50 person items)

"voice, songwriting "

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musicians of irish descent (20 person items)

Koji Ishimura added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago

Favorite Country Musicians (9 person items)

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Bob Dylan and.... (36 person items)

"Bob Dylan and another Texas legend, Willie Nelson onstage. Hard rain, indeed. "

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Celebrities Who Launched Liquor Brands (17 person items)

" Old Whiskey River Bourbon This homegrown bourbon was commissioned by the American rocker and is made close to home in Kentucky. Sourced from locally grown and family owned farms, each small batch of whiskey comes with an autographed guitar pick."

nusch added this to a list 1 year, 5 months ago

Other side of the photograph by Annie Leibovitz (19 person items)

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Celebrities Finger Puppet By Melanie Howard (15 person items)

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Famous Guitars! (18 person items)

"Trigger! In 1969, Willie Nelson sent one of his banged-up guitars to a repair shop in Nashville. The owner told him he couldn’t fix it but he had a Martin for sale that he thought Willie might like. Nelson bought the N-20 for $750 over the phone, sight unseen. After its delivery, he immediately fell in love with the guitar, naming it “Trigger” after Roy Rodgers’ trusty horse. Willie played the Martin so much over the years that he wore a large hole in the top. However, the country st"