By: Vickie J. Rubinson
Willie Nelson has done it all. He's been a genre-bending music maker, door-to-door vacuum salesman, movie star, disco jockey, Zen Bubba, honky-tonk king, wizened philosopher, articulate poet, unrepentant hippie, committed road dog and champion of the common man.
From his first performance at age four, Willie has been driven to make music and to live life on his own terms. A songwriter of exceptional depth, he found success only after abandoning Nashville and moving to Austin, texas, where he created an instantly recognizable new country music. Willie's Red Headed Stranger made country cool to a new generation of fans.
This acclaimed biography draws on more than one hundred interviews with Willie and his family, band and friends to capture a life truly epic in scope--from Willie's humble Depression-era roots to his musical eduation in Texas honky-gonks; from his flirtations with whiskeym women and weed to his triumph with the #1 hit "Always On My Mind"; from his nearly career-ending battles with the IRS to his ultimate redemption and ascension to American folk hero.
Author: Joe Nick Patoski
Willie Nelson has done it all. He's been a genre-bending music maker, door-to-door vacuum salesman, movie star, disco jockey, Zen Bubba, honky-tonk king, wizened philosopher, articulate poet, unrepentant hippie, committed road dog and champion of the common man.
From his first performance at age four, Willie has been driven to make music and to live life on his own terms. A songwriter of exceptional depth, he found success only after abandoning Nashville and moving to Austin, texas, where he created an instantly recognizable new country music. Willie's Red Headed Stranger made country cool to a new generation of fans.
This acclaimed biography draws on more than one hundred interviews with Willie and his family, band and friends to capture a life truly epic in scope--from Willie's humble Depression-era roots to his musical eduation in Texas honky-gonks; from his flirtations with whiskeym women and weed to his triumph with the #1 hit "Always On My Mind"; from his nearly career-ending battles with the IRS to his ultimate redemption and ascension to American folk hero.
Author: Joe Nick Patoski
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