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Abbott, Texas
Abbott is a city in Hill County in Central Texas. The population was 328 in 2009. It is perhaps best known as the birthplace of country musician Willie Nelson.
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Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquin name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River. Its diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state.
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the fifteenth most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. Austin has a population of 786,382 (2009 U.S. Census estimate). The city is the cultural and economic center of the metropolitan area, with a population of 1,750,224 (2009 U.S. Census estimate), making it the 35th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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Baylor University is a private, Christian-affiliated research university located in Waco, Texas, United States. Founded in 1845, Baylor is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Big 12 Conference.
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Carl's Corner, Texas
'''Carl's Corner''' is a town in Hill County in Northern Central Texas. The population was 134 at the 2000 census. The town was founded by, and named after, Carl Cornelius, a local truck stop owner and long-time friend of Willie Nelson. Cornelius founded the town for the purpose of legalizing alcohol sales in the otherwise mostly-dry county.
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Dallas, Texas
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Helotes, Texas
Helotes is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States. It is part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,285 at the 2000 census; the July 1, 2009 Census estimate, however, showed the population had grown to 7,960.
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Hillsboro, Texas
Hillsboro is a city in and the county seat of Hill County in Northern Central Texas. The population was 8,232 at the 2000 census.
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Jeff Wentworth
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books. The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, music, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities.
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Pleasanton, Texas
Pleasanton is a city in Atascosa County, Texas, United States. The population was 8,266 at the 2000 census. Pleasanton's official motto is "The City of Live Oaks and Friendly Folks." It is part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Salem, Oregon
Salem () is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County. Salem was founded in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857.
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San Marcos, Texas
San Marcos is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, and is the seat of Hays County. Located within the metropolitan area, the city is located on the Interstate 35 corridor—between Austin and San Antonio.
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Travis County, Texas
Travis County is a county located in south central Texas astride the Balcones Fault, the boundary between the Edwards Plateau to the west and the Blackland Prairie to the east. It is part of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area. In the year 2009, the population was 1,026,158; the county has gained more than 400,000 residents since 1990. Its county seat is Austin, the capital of Texas. The county is named in honor of William Barret Travis, the commander of the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo.
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Waco, Texas
Waco () is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. The city has a 2009 estimated total population of 126,217. The Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of McLennan County and has a 2007 estimated population of 224,668.
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The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
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Wittliff collections
The Wittliff Collections, located on the seventh floor of the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University, was founded by William D. Wittliff in 1987. The Wittliff Collections include the Southwestern Writers Collection and the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection.
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Adolph Green
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Alex Cox
Alexander Cox (born Bebington, Merseyside, 15 December 1954) is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts.
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Allman Brothers
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Andreas von Bülow
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Annie Machon
Annie Machon (born 1968) is a former British Security Service (MI5) intelligence officer who left the Service at the same time as David Shayler, her partner at the time, due to Shayler's assertions about criminality within the intelligence agencies. To date, Machon is a prominent member of 9/11 Truth Movement.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and guitar playing.
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Barrie Zwicker
Barrie Wallace Zwicker (born 1934) is a Canadian alternative media journalist, documentary producer, and political activist. He is most famous for his documentary work, which has dealt primarily with 9/11 conspiracy theories.
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Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. In 1958, he performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival.
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Betty Comden
Betty Comden (May 3, 1917 November 23, 2006) was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed "Freed Unit" at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein.
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Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 190627 March 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won three Academy Awards for producing, directing and writing the same film (The Apartment).
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Wills
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called the King of Western Swing by his fans.
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Bud Shrake
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Carol Brouillet
Carol Brouillet (born August 28, 1957), an American political activist and organizer, is a Green Party candidate for the United States House of Representatives in California's 14th congressional district. Carol is a leading activist in the 9/11 Truth Movement. In 2006 and 2008 she ran for the United States Congress as a Green on a 9/11 Truth, Peace, and Impeachment platform. She has co-founded several non-profit organizations that seek to connect people, vital ideas, and important information for the purpose of nurturing healthy social change, economic justice and ecological sustainability. These include the International Media Project, the Who's Counting Project, the 9/11 Truth Alliance, and the [http://www.communitycurrency.org/Donate.html Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance].
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Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theatre and television.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee () are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.
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Chet Atkins
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Claude Gray
Claude Gray (born January 26, 1932 in Henderson, Texas) is an American country music singer-songwriter and guitar picker best known for his 1960 hit "Family Bible," which has been covered by many different artists.
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Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a former US Congresswoman and a member of the Green Party since 2007. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party nominated McKinney for President of the United States. She is the first African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.
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Daniel Sunjata
Daniel Sunjata (born Daniel Sunjata Condon; December 30, 1971) is an American actor who performs in film, television and in the theater.
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David Icke
David Vaughan Icke (; born April 29, 1952) is an English writer, public speaker, and former media personality best known for his views on what he calls "who and what is really controlling the world". Describing himself as the most controversial speaker and author in the world, he has written 16 books explaining his position, dubbed "New Age conspiracism", and has attracted a substantial following across the political spectrum. His 533-page The Biggest Secret (1999) has been called the conspiracy theorist's Rosetta Stone.
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David Shayler
David Shayler (born 24 December 1965) is a British journalist and former MI5 (Security Service) officer. Shayler earned notoriety after being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for his passing secret documents to the Mail on Sunday in August 1997 that alleged that MI5 was paranoid about socialists, and that it had previously investigated Labour Party ministers Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw and Harriet Harman.
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Dennis Kucinich
Dennis John Kucinich (; born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 elections.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Django Reinhardt
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (; 23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist.
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Ed Bruce
William Edwin "Ed" Bruce, Jr. (born December 29, 1939) is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is known for penning the song "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".
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Edward Albee
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Edward Villella
Edward Villella (born October 1, 1936, Bayside, New York) is an American ballet dancer and choreographer, frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer.
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English people
The English (from ) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens.
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Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. In the early 1960s, he recorded duets with up-and-coming Loretta Lynn, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Faron Young
Faron Young (February 25, 1932 – December 10, 1996) was an American country music singer and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s and one of its most colorful stars. Hits including "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')" and "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" marked him as a honky tonk singer in sound and personal style; and his chart-topping singles "Hello Walls" and "It's Four in the Morning" showed his versatility as a vocalist. Known as the Hillbilly Heartthrob, and following a movie role, the Singing Sheriff, Young's singles reliably charted for more than 30 years. He committed suicide in 1996. Young is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Fayard Nicholas
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Florence Shapiro
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Francesco Cossiga
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Frank Sinatra
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Fred Ebb
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Fred Foster
Fred Foster (born Fred Luther Foster, July 26, 1931, Rutherford County, North Carolina) is an American songwriter, record producer, and founder of Monument Records.
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Fred Rose (musician)
Fred Rose (August 24, 1898 - December 1, 1954) was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.
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Ginger Rogers
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Gonzalo Barrientos
Gonzalo Barrientos, Jr. (born 20 July 1941)
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Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
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Hank Cochran
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Hank Snow
Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. This total includes the number 1 hits "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket", "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", and "Hello Love" as well as other top ten hits. He is a member of both the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music Hall of Fame.
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Harold Nicholas
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Harold Prince
Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards. His shows are known for their political context, new approach to romance, and characters who sing and dance with thematic import.
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Irish people
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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Jacques d'Amboise
'''Jacques d'Amboise''' (born July 28, 1934) is a well-known American ballet dancer, choreographer, and film actor.
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James Henry Fetzer
James Henry Fetzer (born December 6, 1940 in Pasadena, California) is an American philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and a well-known conspiracy theorist. He has written on the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Two of his most recent books were on the evolution of intelligence and philosophical aspects of "the Christian Right's crusade against science". He is also an advocate of the 9/11 conspiracy and John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. He has published three collections of studies on the death of JFK, co-authored another on the plane crash that took the life of Senator Paul Wellstone, and edited the first book from Scholars for 9/11 Truth, an organization he founded. Fetzer makes frequent appearances on radio and television.
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Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage and in film and television and a winner of the Tony Award (theatre), two Academy Awards (film) and the Emmy Award (television). He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II.
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Jean-Marie Bigard
Jean-Marie Bigard (born May 17, 1954, Troyes, France) is a French comedian and actor. Known for his often rogue humour, he has given presentations at the largest entertainment facilities in France, including the Palais omnisports at Paris-Bercy and the Stade de France. Bigard is a close friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whom he accompanied on an official visit to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome.
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Jeff Wentworth
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Jesse Ventura
James George Janos (born July 15, 1951) is an American politician, former governor of Minnesota, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host. As a professional wrestler, he is best known for his nickname, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and tenure in the World Wrestling Federation as a combatant and color commentator. In 2004, he was inducted into the company's Hall of Fame.
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Jessi Colter
Jessi Colter (born Miriam Johnson May 25, 1943) is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaboration with her husband, country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa".
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Jessye Norman
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Jim Hoffman
Jim Hoffman is a software engineer in Oakland, California, who has worked in scientific visualization and was instrumental in producing the first visualization of Costa's minimal surface. His scientific visualizations have been published in Scientific American and Nature, among other journals.
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Jim Marrs
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Jimmy Walter
James (Jimmy) W. Walter, Junior (born 1947) is an American venture capitalist, author, formerly involved in the 9/11 Truth Movement. He is best known for sponsoring advertisements asking to reopen the investigation of the September 11, 2001 attacks and offering financial rewards to anyone that could prove the World Trade Center was destroyed without the use of explosives.
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Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman.
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Jody Payne
Jody Payne (born January 11, 1936) is an American country musician and singer. He is probably best-known as a longtime guitarist in Willie Nelson's band.
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John Hiatt
John Hiatt (born August 20, 1952, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for eleven Grammy Awards and has been awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry.
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John Kander
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.
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Johnny Carson
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Johnny Cash
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Judith Jamison
Judith Anna Jamison (born May 10, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Jule Styne
Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.
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Julio Iglesias
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Katharine Hepburn
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Kevin Barrett
Kevin James Barrett (born February 1959) is a former university lecturer, Muslim convert. He is a member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11 (SPINE), and is a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance (MUJCA), established October 30, 2004 with the stated aim of improving "interfaith dialogue, coexistence, and understanding" in light of the events of 9/11.
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Kinky Friedman
Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race.
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Kirk Douglas
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
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Lefty Frizzell
Lefty Frizzell (March 31, 1928–July 19, 1975), born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a exponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Leon Payne
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942; Lawton, Oklahoma), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
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Louis Armstrong
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Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief (born January 24, 1925) was the first American prima ballerina. From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is best known for her time with the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1965.
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Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934, Bradford, Pennsylvania) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages.
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Marion Williams
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Mathias Bröckers
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Michael Meacher
Michael Hugh Meacher (born 4 November 1939) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton since 1997. Previously he had been the MP for Oldham West, first elected in 1970. On 22 February 2007 he declared that he would be standing for the Labour Leadership, challenging Gordon Brown and John McDonnell. On 14 May, however, after talks with John McDonnell, he announced he would stand aside in order to back McDonnell as the "candidate of the left".
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Mickey Raphael
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Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (; born May 13, 1930) is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
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Morton Gould
Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
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Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter. His numerous Broadway successes have led to his work being among the most regularly performed in the world.
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Neil Young
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Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, and writer.
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Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s. Since her death in 1963 at age 30 in a private airplane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
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Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics." He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. Roberts has been a critic of both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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Paul English
Paul English is Willie Nelson's longtime drummer who started playing with him in Fort Worth in 1955. In the early days, one of his duties was to serve as a strong armed collection agent for overdue payments from club owners for the band. Paul resides in Dallas and is the father of D.W. English, Paul English Jr., a student at the University of Texas, and Evan English, a freshman at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He is the husband of second wife, Janie English.
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Paul Newman
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Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival:See Richard Silverstein,
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Peter Dale Scott
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Ray Price (musician)
Ray Price (born January 12, 1926) is an American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. His more well-known recordings include "Release Me", "Crazy Arms", "Heartaches by the Number", "City Lights", "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You", "For the Good Times", "Night Life", "I Won't Mention It Again", "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me", and "Danny Boy". He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and—now in his mid 80s—continues to record and tour.
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Ray Wylie Hubbard
Ray Wylie Hubbard (born 13 November 1946 in Soper, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became the Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden".
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Risë Stevens
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Rosalynn Carter
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Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
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Roy Orbison
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Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in more than 100 movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady, (who drove a Jeep called "Nellybelle") or the crotchety George "Gabby" Hayes. Roy's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Dale's nickname was "Queen of the West."
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery KBE (born 25 August 1930), more commonly known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes.
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Shirley Collie
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Shirley Temple
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Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ( or ; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Steve Pieczenik
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Steven E. Jones
Steven Earl Jones is an American physicist. For most of his career, Jones was known mainly for his work on muon-catalyzed fusion. In the fall of 2006, amid controversy surrounding his work on the collapse of the World Trade Center (which Jones believes was destroyed by controlled demolition during the September 11 attacks), he was relieved of his teaching duties and placed on paid leave from Brigham Young University. He retired on October 20, 2006 with the status of Professor Emeritus.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry Burnett (born January 14, 1948), widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.
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Thierry Meyssan
Thierry Meyssan (born 18 May 1957 in Talence, Gironde) is a controversial French journalist and political activist.
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Toby Keith
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Tompall Glaser
Tompall Glaser (born September 3, 1933 in Spalding, Nebraska) is an American country music artist. Active since the 1950s, he has recorded both as a solo artist and with his brothers Chuck and Jim in the trio Tompall & the Glaser Brothers. Tompall Glaser's highest-charting solo single was Shel Silverstein's "Put Another Log on the Fire (The Male Chauvinist National Anthem)", which peaked at #21 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1975 and appeared on the album Wanted! The Outlaws.
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Victor Borge
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Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country music singer, writer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. Jennings escaped death in the February 3, 1959, plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he gave up his seat to Richardson who had been sick with the flu. Urban legend and Hollywood folklore have it that Jennings and The Big Bopper flipped a coin for the last seat on the plane, with Jennings losing. It was, in fact, Tommy Allsup who flipped the coin for the fated plane trip, losing his seat to Ritchie Valens.
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Webster Tarpley
Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, journalist, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies. His writings and speeches describe a model of false flag terror operations by a rogue network in the military/intelligence sector working with moles in the private sector and in corporate media, and locates such contemporary false flag operations in a historical context stretching back in the English speaking world to at least the "gunpowder plot" in England in 1605. He also maintains that "The notion of anthropogenic global warming is a fraud."
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William Rodriguez
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Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American jazz and Western classical virtuoso trumpeter and composer. He is Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted the appreciation of Classical and Jazz music, often focusing on young audiences.
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Yukihisa Fujita
is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Councillors, the upper house of Japan's parliament. He is the Director-General of the DPJ's International Department. Fujita is a native of Mito, Ibaraki and graduate of Keio University, Faculty of Letters.
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Nelson, Willie Filmography
- One Lucky Moon (2013)
- One Lucky Moon (2013)
- Billy Mize & the Bakersfield Sound (2013)
- Juice!: Zombie Alley Vol. 1 (2013)
- Cottonwood (2012)
- 2012 CMT Music Awards (2012)
- Tony Bennett: Duets II (2012)
- Legalize It (2012)
- Legalize It (2012)
- Billy Joe Shaver: Live at Billy Bob's Texas (2012)
- When Angels Sing (2012)
- Cottonwood (2012)
- Ann Richards' Texas (2012)
- Hank Cochran: Livin' for a Song (2012)
- Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed (2012)
- Kokua for Japan (2011)
- Still Is Still Moving: The Making of the Willie Nelson Statue (2011)
- Shoot Out of Luck (2011)
- Toots and the Maytals Reggae Got Soul (2011)
- Shoot Out of Luck (2011)
- The King of Luck (2011)
- CMT: 40 Greatest Love Songs (2011)
- Country at the BBC (2011)
- The Joy of Country (2011)
- The Dry Gulch Kid (2011)
- The Dry Gulch Kid (2011)
- Shoot Out of Luck (2011)
- Get a Job (2011)
- Wild Horses and Renegades (2010)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2010)
- Jessica Simpson: Happy Christmas (2010)
- Ray Charles America (2010)
- Glastonbury 2010 (2010)
- Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America (2010)
- Happiness Is (2009)
- Guitar Man (2009)
- Delta Rising (2009)
- The Mark Twain Prize: Bill Cosby (2009)
- In the Hank Williams Tradition (2009)
- Kokua 2008: 5 Years of Change (2009)
- One Peace at a Time (2009)
- Farm Aid 2009 (2009)
- Dolly Parton & Friends: Love Always - Live from Texas (2009)
- Detroit City Hoedown (2009)
- An Evening with Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson (2009)
- Welcome to Eden (2009)
- WWE: The Rise and Fall of WCW (2009)
- A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (2008)
- Beer for My Horses (2008)
- The King of Texas (2008)
- I Ride (2008)
- Delta Rising: A Blues Documentary (2008)
- Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center New York City (2008)
- The Boom Boom Room (2008)
- Dreadlock Rock (2008)
- The Best of the Porter Wagoner Show! Classic Shows: Vol. 1 (2008)
- Swing Vote (2008)
- Surfer, Dude (2008)
- Farm Aid 2008 (2008)
- Fields of Fuel (2008)
- Fields of Fuel (2008)
- Fuel (2008)
- Fuel (2008)
- Wisdom (2008)
- It's Easy Being Green (2008)
- Opry Video Classics: The Hall of Fame (2007)
- Fighting with Anger (2007)
- Fighting with Anger (2007)
- Elvis: Viva Las Vegas (2007)
- Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Special (2007)
- Kokua Festival 2006 (2007)
- Blonde Ambition (2007)
- Revolution Green (2007)
- The 5th Annual TV Land Awards (2007)
- The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007)
- Here Is What Is (2007)
- Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Special (2007)
- Prometheus Bound: The Epidemic of Hepatitis C (2007)
- The Unforeseen (2007)
- Opry Video Classics: Legends (2007)
- Last of the Breed: Live in Concert (2007)
- Words to Music: The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame 2006 (2006)
- Broken Bridges (2006)
- Beerfest (2006)
- It's Happiness: A Polka Documentary (2006)
- Today's Country Music (2006)
- American Revolutions: The Highwaymen (2006)
- 40th Annual Country Music Association Awards (2006)
- Trailer Court Justice (2006)
- CMT Greatest Moments: Willie Nelson (2006)
- CMT: The Greatest - 40 Greatest Albums (2006)
- Kenny Rogers: The Journey (2006)
- Too Hot Not to Handle (2006)
- 39th Annual Country Music Association Awards (2005)
- WWE WrestleMania: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 2 (2005)
- The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
- CMT: Class of 1975 (2005)
- CMT: Greatest Men 2005 (2005)
- Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of 'Walk the Line' (2005)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2005)
- Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of 'Walk the Line' (2005)
- Nick & Jessica's Tour of Duty (2005)
- Grand Ole Opry's Vintage Classics (2005)
- Willie Nelson: Songs for Tsunami Relief - From Austin to South Asia (2005)
- Tootsie's Orchid Lounge: Where the Music Began (2005)
- All We Are Saying (2005)
- CMT: 100 Greatest Duets Concert (2005)
- Willie Nelson: Live at Billy Bob's Texas (2004)
- Antone's: Home of the Blues (2004)
- Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem (2004)
- Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004)
- CMA Music Festival: Country Music's Biggest Party (2004)
- CMT: 100 Greatest Music Videos (2004)
- Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well (2004)
- Shock'n Y'all Super Bowl Party (2004)
- Singing Songwriters (2004)
- The 39th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (2004)
- The Big Bounce (2004)
- What'd I Say?: A Tribute to Ray Charles (2004)
- Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels (2004)
- CMT Got Me in with the Band (2004)
- 2003 Radio Music Awards (2003)
- CMT: 40 Greatest Fashion Statements (2003)
- American Veteran Awards (2003)
- Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)
- The Last Link (2003)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Pittsburgh (2003)
- Hempsters: Plant the Seed (2003)
- Dolly Parton & Friends on the Country Train (2003)
- The 38th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (2003)
- Willie Nelson & Friends: Live and Kickin' (2003)
- Get Up, Stand Up (2003)
- Ringo Rama (2003)
- Willie Nelson & Friends: Stars & Guitars (2002)
- The Country Bears (2002)
- Waylon: Renegade. Outlaw. Legend. (2002)
- CMT Flame Worthy Video Music Awards (2002)
- The 37th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (2002)
- Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2002)
- Last Party 2000 (2001)
- Korean War Stories (2001)
- Country Legends (2001)
- The Journeyman (2001)
- Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (2001)
- Kinky Friedman: Proud to Be an Asshole from El Paso (2001)
- KiHo Alu-Keola Beamer (2001)
- Roadie Chefs II (2001)
- America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001)
- Crossover (2001)
- Willie Nelson, Live in Amsterdam (2001)
- Stardust (2000)
- Immaculate Funk (2000)
- Live by Request: Willie Nelson (2000)
- Johnny Cash: Half Mile a Day (2000)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Dill Scallion (1999)
- CD Highway (1999)
- Asleep at the Wheel: The Making of 'Ride with Bob' (1999)
- Outlaw Justice (1999)
- An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash (1999)
- Woodstock '99 (1999)
- Merle Haggard: Live in Concert (1999)
- In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (1999)
- The 1999 Billboard Music Awards (1999)
- The Story of Darrell Royal (1999)
- Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998)
- Half Baked (1998)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998)
- Roger Miller Remembered (1998)
- Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope (1998)
- Willie Nelson: Down Home (1997)
- Gone Fishin' (1997)
- Anthem (1997)
- CMT Presents: The King's Covers (1997)
- Wag the Dog (1997)
- Dolly Parton: She Ain't No Dumb Blonde (1997)
- Farm Aid '97 (1997)
- America's Music: The Roots of Country (1996)
- Starlight (1996)
- Farm Aid '96 (1996)
- American Dreamers (1996)
- The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds (1996)
- Farm Aid '96 (1996)
- Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story (1995)
- We Are the World: A 10th Anniversary Tribute (1995)
- Farm Aid: The Tenth Anniversary Concert (1995)
- Big Country (1994)
- Dust to Dust (1994)
- Coming and Going (1994)
- Big Country (1994)
- Sinatra Duets (1994)
- Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work (1993)
- I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (1993)
- The Academy of Country Music's Greatest Hits (1993)
- Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (1993)
- Willie Nelson: The Big Six-0 (1993)
- A Day in the Life of Country Music (1993)
- The 34th Annual Grammy Awards (1992)
- The 27th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (1992)
- 25th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1991)
- Wild Texas Wind (1991)
- The 26th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (1991)
- Ray Charles: 50 Years in Music (1991)
- WrestleMania VII (1991)
- Texas, Our Texas Inaugural Gala (1991)
- Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991)
- Pair of Aces (1990)
- An All Star Salute to Country Music (1990)
- The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening (1989)
- The 24th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (1989)
- Grammy Living Legends (1989)
- Kenny, Dolly and Willie: Something Inside So Strong (1989)
- The 16th Annual American Music Awards (1989)
- Walking After Midnight (1988)
- Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration (1988)
- A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1988)
- The 23rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (1988)
- Baja Oklahoma (1988)
- Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (1988)
- Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
- Heartbeat (1987)
- Farm Aid '87 (1987)
- Alabama... My Home's in Alabama (1986)
- Red Headed Stranger (1986)
- Stagecoach (1986)
- Stagecoach (1986)
- Red Headed Stranger (1986)
- Red Headed Stranger (1986)
- Stagecoach (1986)
- Liberty Weekend (1986)
- The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (1986)
- The 57th Annual Academy Awards (1985)
- Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz (1985)
- We Are the World (1985)
- The 20th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (1985)
- The Winning Hand (1985)
- Birdland (1984)
- The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team (1984)
- Songwriter (1984)
- Streetwise (1984)
- 17th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1983)
- 17th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1983)
- The 10th Annual American Music Awards (1983)
- Hells Angels Forever (1983)
- Barbarosa (1982)
- Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
- Bob Hope's Pink Panther Thanksgiving Gala (1982)
- Thief (1981)
- The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981)
- Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda (1981)
- Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
- Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
- The Electric Horseman (1979)
- The Unbroken Circle: A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter (1979)
- 13th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1979)
- Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration (1979)
- Mickey's 50 (1978)
- 10th Annual Country Music Association Awards (1976)
- A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
Nelson, Willy Filmography
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- A Horse Called Music (with Merle Haggard)
- Roll Me Up (with Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johson & Kris Kristofferson)
- That's All There Is to This Song
- No Place to Fly (with Lukas Nelson)
- Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her (with Lukas Nelson)
- Come on Up to the House (with Sheryl Crow & Lukas Nelson)
- Hero (with Jamey Johnson & Billy Joe Shaver)
- My Window Faces the South (with Lukas Nelson)
- The Sound of Your Memory (with Lukas Nelson)
- Cold War With You (with Ray Price & Lukas Nelson)
- Just Breathe (with Lukas Nelson)
- Home in San Antone (with Lukas Nelson)
- Come on Back Jesus (with Lukas Nelson & Micah Nelson)
- The Scientist
- Remember Me
- Sixteen Tons
- Why Baby Why
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- I'm Movin' On
- That Just About Does It
- This Old House
- Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
- Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
- Slowly
- Satisfied Mind
- Roly Poly
- Release Me
- Ramblin' Fever
- Hallelujah I Love Her So
- Come Rain or Come Shine (feat. Norah Jones)
- Unchain My Heart
- Cryin' Time (feat. Norah Jones)
- Losing Hand
- Hit the Road Jack (feat. Norah Jones)
- I'm Moving On
- Busted
- Here We Go Again (feat. Norah Jones)
- Makin' Whoopee (feat. Norah Jones)
- I Love You So Much It Hurts
- What'd I Say (feat. Norah Jones)
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Mr. Record Man / Hello Walls / One Day at a Time
- The Last Letter / Half Man
- Touch Me
- A Good Hearted Woman
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Crazy
- Night Life
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Georgia on My Mind
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- On the Road Again
- On the Road Again
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Phases and Stages (Circles, Cycles & Scenes)
- Mr. Record Man
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Within Your Crowd
- Little Things
- Born to Lose
- Suffer in Silence
- Crazy Arms
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Laying My Burdens Down
- San Antonio Rose
- Georgia on My Mind
- Man With the Blues
- Seaman's Blues
- Dark as a Dungeon
- Gotta Walk Alone
- Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
- My Baby's Gone
- Freight Train Boogie
- Satisfied Mind
- You Done Me Wrong
- Pistol Packin' Mama
- Ocean of Diamonds
- Drinking Champagne
- I Am a Pilgrim
- House of Gold
- Nobody's Fault but Mine
- Hesitation Blues
- Sweet Jennie Lee
- Fan It
- I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jellyroll
- Oh! You Pretty Woman
- Bring It on Down to My House
- Right or Wrong
- Corrine Corrina
- I'm Sittin' on Top of the World
- Shame on You
- South
- Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
- Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me) (feat. Rob Thomas)
- Mendocino County Line (feat. Lee Ann Womack)
- Back to Earth
- The Harder They Come
- Over You Again
- You Don't Know Me
- Lost Highway (feat. Ray Price)
- Beer for My Horses (feat. Toby Keith)
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (feat. Shania Twain)
- Overtime (feat. Lucinda Williams)
- I'm Still Not Over You (feat. Ray Price)
- Superman
- Bubbles in My Beer
- Crazy (feat. Diana Krall and Elvis Costello)
- Both Sides of Goodbye
- Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other
- Ain't Going Down on Brokeback Mountain
- The Nearness of You
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Come Rain or Shine
- If I Had You (feat. Diana Krall)
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- I Miss You So
- Because of You
- Baby, It's Cold Outside (feat. Norah Jones)
- Angel Eyes
- On the Street Where You Live
- Since I Fell for You
- Always on My Mind
- Bring Me Sunshine
- Following Me Around
- The Ghost
- Happiness Lives Next Door
- I Just Dropped By
- Jimmy's Road
- I Let My Mind Wander
- If You Could See What's Going Through My Mind
- Johnny One Time
- The Local Memory
- The Party's Over
- Where Do You Stand?
- When We Live Again
- What Can You Do to Me Now?
- I'm a Memory
- Sunday Morning Coming Down
- Laying My Burdens Down
- Shotgun Willie
- Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer)
- I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
- Bloody Mary Morning
- Sister's Coming Home / Down At The Corner Beer Joint
- Sad Songs And Waltzes
- Devil In A Sleepin' Bag
- Heaven & Hell
- She's Not For You
- Bubbles In My Beer
- You Look Like The Devil
- So Much To Do
- Local Memory
- Slow Down Old World
- I Drank All of Our Precious Love Away
- I Gotta Have Something I Ain't Got
- Both Ends Of The Candle
- I'm so shamed
- A Song For You
- Whiskey River
- On the Road Again
- If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- The Pilgrim: Chapter 33
- I'm Movin On
- Big River
- Georgia on My Mind
- If You Can Touch Her at All
- Something to Brag About
- Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
- Last Thing I Needed the First Thing This Morning
- Always on My Mind
- Sweet Memories
- Stardust
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Skies
- All of Me
- Unchained Melody
- September Song
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Bright Lights Big City
- Night Life
- Caldonia
- Stardust
- Basin Street Blues
- Georgia on My Mind
- Rainy Day Blues
- My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
- Ain’t Nobody’s Business
- That’s All
- On the Road Again
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Crazy
- City of New Orleans
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Always on My Mind
- Me and Paul
- Good Hearted Woman
- Night Life
- Georgia on My Mind
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Pancho & Lefty
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Hello Walls
- Highwayman
- Blue Skies
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Whiskey River (live)
- Seven Spanish Angels (with Ray Charles)
- Bloody Mary Morning
- Over You Again
- Moment of Forever
- The Bob Song
- Louisiana
- Gravedigger
- Keep Me From Blowing Away
- Takin' on Water
- Always Now
- I'm Alive
- When I Was Young and Grandma Wasn't Old
- Worry B Gone
- You Don't Know Think I'm Funny Anymore
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- Shotgun Willie
- Whiskey River
- Sad Songs and Waltzes
- Local Memory
- Slow Down Old World
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- Devil in a Sleepin' Bag
- She's Not for You
- Bubbles in My Beer
- You Look Like the Devil
- So Much to Do
- A Song for You
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Washing the Dishes
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Walkin'
- Pretend I Never Happened
- Sister's Coming Home / Down at the Corner Beer Joint
- (How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again
- Bloody Mary Morning
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / No Love Around
- I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
- Heaven and Hell
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Pick Up the Tempo / Phases and Stages (Theme)
- Intro Medley: Where's the Show / Let Me Be a Man
- In God's Eyes
- Family Bible
- It's Not for Me to Understand
- Medley: These Are Difficult Times / Remember the Good Times
- Summer of Roses
- December Day
- Yesterday's Wine
- Me and Paul
- Goin' Home
- Crazy
- Night Life
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Pancho and Lefty
- Red Headed Stranger
- On the Road Again
- Unchained Melody
- All of Me
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Always on My Mind
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
- I Never Cared for You
- These Lonely Nights
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- My Life's Been a Pleasure
- My Mary
- Back to Earth
- Heartaches by the Number
- Mom and Dad's Waltz
- Some Other World
- Why Me
- Lost Highway
- I Love You a Thousand Ways
- Please Don't Leave Me Any More Darlin'
- I Gotta Have My Baby Back
20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: The Best of Willie Nelson
(Released 2006)
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- Pretty Paper
- White Christmas
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Silent Night
- Away in a Manger
- First Noel
- Joy to the World
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- O'Little Town of Bethlehem
- Deck the Halls
- El Niño
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Georgia on My Mind
- City of New Orleans
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Good Hearted Woman
- On the Road Again
- Luckenbach Texas
- You Were Always on My Mind
- If You Got the Money Honey, I Got the Time
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Whiskey River
- Stardust
- Rainy Day Blues
- Songbird
- Blue Hotel
- Back to Earth
- Stella Blue
- Hallelujah
- $1000 Wedding
- We Don't Run
- Yours Love
- Sad Songs and Waltzes
- Amazing Grace
- Shotgun Willie
- Whiskey River
- Sad Songs and Waltzes
- Local Memory
- Slow Down Old World
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- Devil in a Sleeping Bag
- She's Not for You
- Bubbles in My Beer
- You Look Like the Devil
- So Much to Do
- A Song for You
- I Gotta Have Something I Ain't Got (outtake)
- I'm So Ashamed (outtake)
- My Cricket & Me (Solo outtake)
- Both Ends of the Candle (outtake)
- Slowdown Old World (alternate version)
- Under the Double Eagle (outtake)
- So Much to Do (alternate version)
- My Cricket & Me (Band outtake)
- Save Your Tears (outtake)
- A Song for You (alternate version)
- Whiskey River (alternate version)
- I Drank All of Our Precious Love Away (outtake)
- Bubbles in My Beer
- Not That I Care
- Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me
- Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
- You Don't Know Me
- Sugar Moon
- I Don't Care
- Cherokee Maiden
- The Warm Red Wine
- Miss Molly
- Dusty Skies
- It's All Your Fault
- I Was Just Walkin' Out the Door
- On the Road Again
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Nothing I Can Do About It Now
- Georgia on My Mind
- Living in the Promiseland
- Pancho and Lefty
- Always on My Mind
- City of New Orleans
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- iTunes Originals
- Whiskey River (iTunes Originals Version)
- What's Good for Me
- Always On My Mind (iTunes Originals Version)
- Pancho and Lefty (iTunes Originals Version)
- A Pretty Good Song
- Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life (iTunes Originals Version)
- Follow Your Instincts
- Beer for My Horses (iTunes Originals Version)
- What's the Melody?
- On the Road Again (iTunes Originals Version)
- Coming from the Same Place
- Georgia On My Mind (iTunes Originals Version)
- How I Ended Up With a Classical Guitar
- Texas
- How I Came to Do a Song Written By Elton John's Lyricist
- Mendocino County Line
- All We Have Is Right Now
- Still Is Still Moving to Me (iTunes Originals Version)
- I've Been Lucky
- Superman (iTunes Originals Version)
- Touch Me
- Shelter of My Arms
- Crazy
- One Step Beyond
- I Hope So
- Ten with a Two
- Will You Remember Mine
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- Things to Remember
- You'll Always Have Someone
- Half of a Man
- Face of a Fighter
- I Let My Mind Wander
- I Didn't Sleep a Wink
- The Shelter of Your Arms
- Will You Remember Mine
- Any Old Arms Won't Do
- Last Letter
- I Feel Sorry for Him
- Broken Promises
- You'll Always Have Someone
- I Just Don't Understand
- One Step Beyond
- I Hope So
- Go Away
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- Ashamed
- Building Heartaches
- Touch Me
- City of New Orleans
- If You Got the Money
- Always on My Mind
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Good Hearted Woman
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Whiskey River
- On the Road Again
- Do You Mind Too Much If I Don't Understand
- How Long Is Forever
- I'm a Worried Man
- The Harder They Come
- Something to Think About
- Sitting in Limbo
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- One in a Row
- I've Just Destroyed the World
- You Left Me a Long, Long Time Ago
- I Guess I've Come to Live Here
- Undo the Right
- Crazy (original demo)
- Touch Me
- Good Times
- Yesterday's Wine
- Whiskey River
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Good Hearted Woman (live)
- Always on My Mind
- Just to Satisfy You
- Pancho and Lefty
- She Is Gone
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Funny How Time Slips Away (feat. Francine Reed)
- Night Life (feat. B.B. King)
- Rainbow Connection
- Don't Fade Away (feat. Brian McKnight)
- Mendocino County Line (feat. Lee Ann Womack)
- On the Road Again
- Picture in a Frame
- Valentine
- Just One Love
- 'Til I Gain Control Again
- Love Me Like a Song
- I Just Drove By
- Contrabandistas
- It Always Will Be
- We've Done This Before
- Rhinestone Highway
- Night Life
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- I Can't Find the Time
- Everything but You
- Blame It on the Times
- So Much to Do
- Building Heartaches
- Rainy Day Blues
- Shelter of Your Arms
- Let's Pretend
- Waiting Time
- Go Away
- No Tomorrow in Sight
- I Hope So
- And So Will You My Love
- Will You Remember Mine
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- I Hope So
- Some Other Time
- I'll Stay Around
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- Broken Promises
- Waiting Time
- Face of a Fighter
- No Tomorrow in Sight
- Everything But You
- Shelter of Your Arms
- Happiness Lives Next Door
- It Always Will Be
- Picture in a Frame
- The Way You See Me
- Be That As It May (feat. Paula Nelson)
- You Were It
- Big Booty
- I Didn't Come Here (And I Ain't Leavin')
- My Broken Heart Belongs to You
- Dreams Come True (feat. Norah Jones)
- Overtime (feat. Lucinda Williams)
- Tired
- Love's the One and Only Thing
- Texas
- Midnight Rider
- Georgia on a Fast Train
- Ramblin' Fever
- Shotgun Willie
- Rainin' in My Heart
- Stormy Weather
- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
- Still Is Still Moving to Me
- Midnight Rider
- Pressure Drop
- I'll Never Be Free
- Opportunity to Cry
- Cisco Kid
- Pancho & Lefty
- Overtime
- Mama Tried
- Comes Love
- We Had It All
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
- I'll Fly Away (feat. Merle Haggard)
- Deep Water
- This Cold War With You
- I'm So Ashamed
- I've Just Destroyed the World I'm Living In
- It Wouldn't Be the Same Without You
- Home in San Antone
- Something to Think About
- Run That by Me One More Time
- Soft Rain
- I'll Keep on Lovin' You
- I'm Still Not Over You
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- I Didn't Sleep a Wink
- The Shelter of Your Arms
- Things to Remember
- I Can't Find the Time
- Everything but You
- Both Ends of the Candle
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- Why Are You Picking on Me
- The Ghost
- Broken Promises
- Blame It on the Times
- Happiness Lives Next Door
- Building Heartaches
- Half a Man (live)
- Touch Me (live)
- Let's Pretend
- The Last Letter (live)
- I'm Gonna Lose a Lot of Teardrops
- Rainy Day Blues
- Whiskey River
- Bloody Mary Morning
- I Still Can't Believe Your Gone
- Sister's Coming Home
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- After the Fire Is Gone
- Devil in a Sleeping Bag
- I'm Falling in Love Again
- Pretend I Never Happened
- Shotgun Willie
- Pancho and Lefty
- It's My Lazy Day
- My Mary
- Half a Man
- Reasons to Quit
- No Reason to Quit
- Still Water Runs the Deepest
- My Life's Been a Pleasure
- All the Soft Places to Fall
- Opportunity to Cry
- Half a Man
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Night Life
- Hello Walls
- Crazy
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- I Never Cared for You
- The Party's Over
- Good Times
- Me and Paul
- Shotgun Willie
- Bloody Mary Morning
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Good Hearted Woman
- If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
- Uncloudy Day
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Skies
- All of Me
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Whiskey River (live)
- Stay a Little Longer (live)
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
- Always on My Mind
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
- Let It Be Me
- Staring Each Other Down
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Ols Fords and a Natural Stone
- Permanently Lonely
- Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
- The Party's Over
- The Man Who Owes Everyone
- I'm a Memory
- Beautiful Texas/Waltz Across Texas
- Cool Water
- Houston
- Between the Red and Rio Grande
- Streets of Laredo
- Amarillo by Morning
- The Eyes of Texas/Yellow Rose of Texas
- San Antonio Rose
- Red River Valley
- Texas Ladies' Man
- Tumbleweeds
- Home on the Range
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Blue Skies
- Georgia on My Mind
- Me and Paul
- City of New Orleans
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Always on My Mind
- All of Me
- I Never Cared for You
- Walkin' the Floor Over You
- Stardust
The Willie Nelson Special: With Special Guest Ray Charles
(Released 2002)
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- On the Road Again
- Always on My Mind
- Angel Eyes
- Seven Spanish Angels
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Georgia on My Mind
- Mountain Dew
- My Window Faces South
- There Will Never Be Another You
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Without a Song
- Who Will Buy My Memories
- Whisky River
- Whiskey River
- Good Hearted Woman
- Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)
- Mendocino County Line
- Always on My Mind
- Night Life
- Dead Flowers
- Lonestar
- Stardust
- Don't Fade Away
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- For What It's Worth
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Till I Gain Control Again
- The Harder They Come
- On the Road Again
- Move It on Over
- Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)
- Mendocino County Line (feat. Lee Ann Womack)
- Last Stand in Open Country (feat. Kid Rock)
- Won't Catch Me Cryin'
- Be There for You (feat. Sheryl Crow)
- The Great Divide
- Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was in)
- This Face
- Don't Fade Away (feat. Brian McKnight)
- Time After Time
- Recollection Phoenix
- You Remain (feat. Bonnie Raitt)
- Stardust
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Skies
- All of Me
- Unchained Melody
- September Song
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Rainbow Connection
- I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
- Ol' Blue
- Wise Old Me
- Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
- Playmate
- I'm My Own Grandpa
- Rock Me to Sleep
- Playin' Dominoes and Shootin' Dice
- Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
- Outskirts of Town
- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
- The Thirty-Third of August
- Ashamed
- He Sits at My Table
- Tender Years
- Down to Our Last Goodbye
- Blackjack County Chain
- Did I Ever Love You
- Something to Think About
- I Don't Feel Anything
- You Ought to Hear Me Cry
- I'm Still Not Over You
- Always on My Mind
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- City of New Orleans
- Georgia on My Mind
- Stardust
- Seven Spanish Angels
- On the Road Again
- 'Til I Gain Control Again
- If You Got the Money Honey I've Got the Time
- Luckenbach, Texas
- Good-Hearted Woman
- Angel Flying to Close to the Ground
- The Red-Headed Stranger
- Medley: Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Time of the Preacher
- I Couldn't Believe It Was True
- Time of the Preacher Theme
- Medley: Blue Rock Montana / Red Headed Stranger
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Red Headed Stranger
- Time of the Preacher Theme
- Just as I Am
- Denver
- O'er the Waves
- Down Yonder
- Can I Sleep in Your Arms?
- Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming)
- Hands on the Wheel
- Bandera
- Bach Minuet in G
- Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)
- A Maiden's Prayer
- Bonaparte's Retreat
- Milk Cow Blues (feat. Francine Reed)
- Outskirts of Town (feat. Keb' Mo)
- Black Night (feat. Dr. John)
- Funny How Time Slips Away (feat. Francine Reed)
- Rainy Day Blues (feat. Jonny Lang)
- Crazy (feat. Susan Tedeschi)
- The Thrill Is Gone (feat. B.B. King)
- Wake Me When It's Over
- Kansas City (feat. Susan Tedeschi)
- Fool's Paradise (feat. Dr. John)
- Ain't Nobody's Business (feat. Jonny Lang)
- Night Life (feat. B.B. King)
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- Lonely Street
- Texas Flood (feat. Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
- (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
- Worried Man
- Family Bible
- Don't Take Your Guns to Town
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Flesh and Blood
- Crazy
- Unchained
- Night Life
- Drive On
- Me and Paul
- I Still Miss Someone
- Always on My Mind
- Folsom Prison Blues
- On the Road Again
- Ou es-tu, mon amour? (Where Are You, My Love?)
- I Never Cared for You
- Everywhere I Go
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- My Own Peculiar Way
- These Lonely Nights
- Home Motel
- The Maker
- I Just Can't Let You Say Good-Bye
- I've Just Destroyed the World
- Somebody Pick Up My Pieces
- Three Days
- I've Loved You All Over the World
- Annie
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Skies
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- On the Road Again
- Always on My Mind
- City of New Orleans
- Forgiving You Was Easy
- Living in the Promiseland
- Midnight Rider
- Remember Me (When the Candle Lights Are Gleaming)
- Uncloudy Day
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- The Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
- Nothing I Can Do About It Now
- El Niño
- Away in a Manger
- Joy to the World
- O' Little Town of Bethlehem
- Willie Nelson & Gene Autry / Here Comes Santa Claus
- Pretty Paper
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Silent Night
- Deck the Halls
- White Christmas
- El Niño (instrumental)
- Away in Manger
- Deck the Halls
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Joy to the World
- The First Noel
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Silent Night
- Pretty Paper
- I Just Don't Understand
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- I Let My Mind Wander
- Why Are You Picking on Me
- Broken Promises
- And So Will You My Love
- Undo the Right
- Slow Down Old World
- Ashamed
- Any Old Arms Won't Do
- Things to Remember
- End of Understand
- Touch Me
- Healing Hands of Time
- Face of a Fighter
- I Didn't Sleep a Wink
- Half a Man
- Suffer in Silence
- I Feel Sorry for Him
- Last Letter
- Georgia on My Mind
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Highwayman
- Don't Get Around Much Any More
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- For the Good Times
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- A Good Hearted Woman
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Mona Lisa
- Stardust
- City of New Orleans
- As Time Goes By
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Unchained Melody
- Amazing Grace
- Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do)
- Always on My Mind
- Matador
- She is Gone
- Your Memory Won't Die in My Grave
- I'm Not Trying to Forget You Anymore
- Too Sick to Pray
- Mariachi
- I'm Waiting Forever
- We Don't Run
- I Guess I've Come to Live Here in Your Eyes
- It's a Dream Come True
- I Thought About You, Lord
- Spirit of E9
- Matador
- Just One Love
- Each Night at Nine
- This Cold Cold War With You
- Better Left Forgotten
- It's a Sin
- Four Walls
- Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)
- I Just Dropped By
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Bonaparte's Retreat
- Alabam
- Eight More Miles to Louisville
- Let's Pretend
- I'm Gonna Lose A Lot Of Teardrops
- Go Away
- No Tomorrow In Sight
- A New Way To Cry
- Broken Promises
- I Let My Mind Wander
- I Can't Find The Time
- I Didn't Sleep A Wink
- Building Heartaches
- Pages
- Is There Something On Your Mind
- Face Of A Fighter
- I Hope So
- Everything But You
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Some Other Time
- The Shelter Of My Arms
- Blame It On The Times
- End Of Understanding
- One Step Beyond
- Ain't Necessarily So
- Just Out of Reach
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Stardust
- Without a Song
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Harbor Lights
- Remember Me
- When I Dream
- Let It Be Me
- Man With the Blues
- Nite Life
- Hello Walls
- Crazy
- Touch Me
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- The Party's Over
- Me and Paul
- Bloody Mary Morning
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
- Whiskey River
- On the Road Again
- Georgia on My Mind
- Good Hearted Woman
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Blue Skies
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Always on My Mind
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- Pancho & Lefty
- Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
- Forgiving You Was Easy
- Nothing I Can Do About It Now
- Family Bible
- On the Road Again
- Once You Are Past the Blues
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys
- Me and Paul
- Old Friends
- Blue Skies
- What a Wonderful World
- Twilight Time
- Spanish Eyes
- All of Me
- Ten With a Two
- Songwriter
- Turm Me Loose and Let Me Swing
- City of New Orleans
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Always on My Mind
- Pancho and Lefty
- By the Rivers of Babylon
- Stand by Me
- It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
- In God's Eyes
- There Shall Be Showers of Blessings
- Tell It to Jesus
- Family Bible
- Revive Us Again
- Softly and Tenderly
- Kneel at the Feet of Jesus
- The Red Headed Stranger
- On the Road Again
- City of New Orleans
- If You've Got the Money Honey I've Got the Time
- Whiskey River
- Till I Gain Control Again
- You Were Always on My Mind
- Stardust
- Funny How Time Slips Away, Crazy, Night Life
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Longbeach, Texas
- Good Hearted Woman
- Angel Flying to Close to the Ground
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Nothing's Changed, Nothing's New
- Chase the Moon
- Are You Sure?
- The Party's Over
- We're Not Talking Anymore
- Turn Me Loose and Let Me Swing
- Once You're Past the Blues
- It Won't Be Easy
- Stray Cats, Cowboys & Girls of the Night
- The Best Worst Thing
- It Should Be Easier Now
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Time of the Preacher
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
- Uncloudy Day
- Always Late (With Your Kisses)
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Skies
- Whiskey River
- Stay a Little Longer
- Mr. Record Man
- Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
- On the Road Again
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- Mona Lisa
- Always on My Mind
- Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
- The Party's Over
- Night Life
- Rainy Day Blues
- Touch Me
- Wake Me When It's Over
- Hello Walls
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Crazy
- Part Where I Cry
- Mr. Record Man
- Three Days
- One Step Beyond
- Undo the Right
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Where My House Lives
- How Long Is Forever [Version #1]
- Country Willie
- Go Away
- Waiting Time
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Goodbye
- There's Gonna Be Love in My House b
- Take My Word [Version #1]
- There Goes a Man
- Columbus Stockade Blues [Version #1]
- Our Chain of Love
- Willingly
- Columbus Stockade Blues [Version #2]
- You Dream About Me
- Is This My Destiny?
- Together
- Columbus Stockade Blues [Version #3]
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Crazy
- Night Life
- Healing Hands of Time
- (How I Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again
- All the Things You Are
- Oh, What It Seemed to Be
- If I Had My Way
- I'll Be Seeing You
- There Are Worse Things Than Being Alone
- Shotgun Willie
- Whiskey River
- Sad Songs and Waltzes
- Local Memory
- Slow Down Old World
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- Devil in a Sleepin' Bag
- She's Not for You
- Bubbles in My Beer
- You Look Like the Devil
- So Much to Do
- A Song for You
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Washing the Dishes
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Walkin'
- Pretend I Never Happened
- Sister's Coming Home / Down at the Corner Beer Joint
- (How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again
- Bloody Mary Morning
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / No Love Around
- I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
- Heaven and Hell
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Pick Up the Tempo / Phases and Stages (Theme)
- American Tune
- Getting Over You
- (The) Most Unoriginal Sin
- Don't Give Up
- Heartland
- Across the Borderline
- Graceland
- Farther Down the Line
- Valentine
- What Was It You Wanted
- I Love the Life I Live
- If I Were the Man You Wanted
- She's Not for You
- Still Is Still Moving to Me
- I Let My Mind Wonder
- December Days
- I Can't Find the Time
- I Don't Sleep a Wink
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Goodbye
- Suffering in Silence
- I Feel Sorry for Him
- You'll Always Have Someone
- I Just Don't Understand
- Shelter of My Arms
- Any Old Arms Won't Do
- Slow Down Old World
- Healing Hands of Time
- And So Will You My Love
- Things to Remember
- One Step Beyond
- Undo the Wrong
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- Why Are You Picking on Me
- Blame It on the Time
- Who'll Buy My Memories?
- Jimmy's Road
- It Should Be Easier Now
- Will You Remember Mine?
- I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
- Yesterday's Wine
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
- Country Willie
- The Sound in Your Mind
- Permanently Lonely
- So Much to Do
- Lonely Little Mansion
- Me and Bobby McGee
- There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
- City of New Orleans
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
- Take It to the Limit
- Ghost Riders in the Sky
- On the Road Again
- Man in Black
- Midnight Rider
- Ain't Necessarily So
- (I Don't Have a Reason) To Go to California Anymore
- Ten With a Two
- The Piper Came Today
- You Decide
- Pieces of My Life
- It'll Come to Me
- This Is How Without You Goes
- Born for Trouble
- Little Things Mean a Lot
- Pancho and Lefty
- It's My Lazy Day
- My Mary
- Half a Man
- Reasons to Quit
- No Reason to Quit
- Still Water Runs the Deepest
- My Life's Been a Pleasure (I Still Love You as I Did in Yesterday)
- All the Soft Places to Fall
- Opportunity to Cry
- Nothing I Can Do About It Now
- The Highway
- I Never Cared For You
- If I Were A Painting
- Spirit
- There You Are
- Mr. Record Man
- If My World Didn't Have You
- A Horse Called Music
- Is The Better Part Over
- Born to Lose
- What Now My Love
- Teach Me to Forget
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
- San Antonio Rose
- I Love You Because
- Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me
- Heartaches by the Number
- My Own Peculiar Way
- I Walk Alone
- It Will Come to Pass
- Suffer in Silence
- To Make a Long Story Short (She's Gone)
- The Party's Over
- Crazy Arms
- Both Sides Now
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- No Show Jones
- Pancho & Lefty
- Yesterday's Wine
- Half a Man
- Big Butter and Egg Man
- Heaven or Hell
- Midnight Rider
- Are the Good Times Really Over
- A Drunk Can't Be a Man
- Always on My Mind
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Until It's Time for You to Go
- Unchained Melody
- She's Out of My Life
- Why Are You Picking on Me
- I'd Have to Be Crazy
- To All the Girls I Loved Before
- Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- On the Road Again
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Georgia on My Mind
- Let It Be Me
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Blue Skies
- Let It Be Me
- Tenderly
- Harbor Lights
- Mona Lisa
- To Each His Own
- Over the Rainbow
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Georgia on My Mind
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Without a Song
- Unchained Melody
- That Lucky Old Sun
- In My Mother's Eyes
- Always on My Mind
- Living in the Promiseland
- I'm Not Trying to Forget You
- Here in My Heart
- I've Got the Craziest Feeling
- No Place but Texas
- You're Only in My Arms (To Cry on My Shoulder)
- Pass It On
- Do You Ever Think of Me
- Old Fashioned Love
- Basin Street Blues
- Bach Minuet in G
- Pancho and Lefty
- Slow Movin' Outlaw
- Are There Any More Real Cowboys
- I Told a Lie to My Heart
- Texas on a Saturday Night
- Seven Spanish Angels
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- They All Went to Mexico
- Honky Tonk Women
- Half a Man
- City of New Orleans
- Just Out of Reach
- Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
- Why Are You Picking on Me?
- She's Out of My Life
- Cry
- Please Come to Boston
- It Turns Me Inside Out
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- Until It's Time for You to Go
- You're Gonna Love Yourself in the Morning
- Ping Pong
- You'll Always Have Someone
- Here Comes That Rainbow Again
- The Bigger the Fool, the Harder the Fall
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Happy Happy Birthday Baby
- You Left Me a Long, Long Time Ago
- To Make a Long Story Short
- Someone Loves You Honey
- Everthing's Beautiful (In It's Own Way)
- Bring on the Sunshine
- Put It Off Until Tomorrow
- I Never Cared for You
- Casey's Last Ride
- King of a Lonely Castle
- The Little Things
- The Bandits of Beverly Hills
- What Do You Think About Lovin'
- Born to Love Me
- The Red Headed Stanger
- On the Road Again
- City of New Orleans
- If You've Got the Money Honey I've Got the Time
- Whiskey River
- 'till I Gain Control Again
- You Were Always on My Mind
- Stardust
- Medley: Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Luchenbach, Texas
- Good Hearted Woman
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Mona Lisa
- Exactly Like You
- Who's Sorry Now?
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
- Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
- Over the Rainbow
- In My Mother's Eyes
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- It Wouldn't Be the Same (Without You)
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
- Midnight Rider
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- So You Think You're a Cowboy
- Hands on the Wheel
- Electro-Phantasma
- Rising Star (Love Theme)
- The Electric Horseman
- Interlude - Tumbleweed Morning
- Disco Magic
- Freedom Epilogue
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Medley: Mr. Record Man / Hello Walls / One Day at a Time
- Medley: The Last Letter / Half a Man
- I Never Cared for You
- Yesterday
- Touch Me
- Something to Think About
- I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye
- How Long Is Forever
- Medley: Opportunity to Cry / Permanently Lonely
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Crazy Arms
- Wabash Cannonball
- Pins and Needles (In My Heart)
- Who Do I Know in Dallas
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Once More With Feeling
- Both Sides Now
- Bloody Mary Morning
- Everybody's Talkin'
- One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
- It Could Be Said That Way
- Dallas
- San Antonio
- Streets of Laredo
- Who Put All My Ex's in Texas
- Hill Country Theme
- Waltz Across Texas
- Travis Letter
- Remember the Alamo
- Texas in My Soul
- There's a Little Bit of Everything in Texas
- Beautiful Texas
- Good Times
- December Day
- Sweet Memories
- Little Things
- Pages
- She's Still Gone
- Ashamed
- A Wonderful Yesterday
- Permanently Lovely
- Down to Our Last Goodbye
- Buddy
- Did I Ever Love You
- Suffering in Silence
- Hold Me Tighter
- Go Away
- The Ghost
- To Make a Long Story Short (She's Gone)
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- The Party's Over
- There Goes a Man
- Once Alone
- No Tomorrow in Sight
- I'll Stay Around
- End of Understanding
- One Day at a Time
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Night Life
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Healing Hands of Time
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Hello Walls
- Are You Sure
- Mr. Record Man
- It Should Be Easier Now
- So Much to Do
- Within Your Crowd
- Roly Poly
- Half a Man
- Lonely Little Mansion
- The Last Letter
- Second Fiddle
- Take My Word
- Right From Wrong
- Feed It a Memory
- Let Me Talk to You
- The Way You See Me
- The Things I Might Have Been
- Home Motel
- Touch Me
- Wake Me When It's Over
- Hello Walls
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Crazy
- The Part Where I Cry
- Mr. Record Man
- Three Days
- One Step Beyond
- Undo the Right
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Where My House Lives
- Maggie's Farm
- Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
- Cold Irons Bound
- Under the Red Sky
- Can't Wait
- Silvio
- Cocaine Blues (acoustic)
- John Brown (acoustic)
- Tangled Up in Blue (acoustic)
- I & I
- I'll Remember You
- [Band Introductions] / 'til I Fell in Love With You
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Red Headed Stranger
- Crazy
- Stormy Weather
- Blue Skies
- Homeward Bound
- Night Life
- Crazy Arms
- Old Friends
- Take It to the Limit
- Trouble in Mind
- The Troublemaker
- The Healing Hands of Time
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Poncho & Lefty
- On the Road Again
- Time of the Preacher
- Take This Job and Shove It
- Faded Love
- Whiskey River
- Just Dropped In
- The Great Divide
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- Playin' Dominoes and Shootin' Dice
- It's a Dream Come True
- Three Days
- Rainbow Connection
- What a Way to Live
- Misery Mansion
- Rainy Day Blues
- Night Life
- Man With the Blues
- The Storm Was in My Heart
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Some Other Time
- Blame It on the Times
- Shelter of My Arms
- Touch Me
- Half a Man
- Will You Remember Me
- Everything but You
- I Hope So
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- Mom & Dad's Waltz
- Look What Thoughts Will Do
- I Love You a Thousand Ways
- Always Late (With Your Kisses)
- I Want to be With You
- She's Gone, Gone, Gone
- A Little Unfair
- I Never Go Around Mirrors
- That't the Way Love Goes
- Railroad Lady
- Bright Lights, Big City
- Night Life
- Caldonia
- Stardust
- Basin Street Blues
- Georgia On My Mind
- Rainy Day Blues
- My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
- Ain't Nobody's Business
- That's All
- Sweet Georgia Brown [Borders Exclusive]
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore [Borders Exclusive]
- Old Friends
- Husbands & Wives
- Half a Mind
- The Best I Can Give Her
- Sorry Willie
- When a House Is Not a Home
- Aladambama
- Invitation to the Blues
- When Two Worlds Collide
- I'll Pick Up My Heart (And Go Home)
- Fan It
- Oh! You Pretty Woman
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Corinne, Corinna
- Shame on You
- Wont You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
- I'll Have Somebody Elso (as Soon as You're Gone)
- Bring It on Down to My House, Honey
- Poncho & Lefty
- Luau
- Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- On the Road Again
- Always on My Mind
- Georgia
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
- Fly Away
- Superman
- You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore
- On the Road Again
- Whiskey River
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- Good Hearted Woman
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Crazy
- Night Life
- Down Yonder
- Workin' Man Blues
- Help Me Make It Through The Night
- Me & Bobby McGee
- Me & Paul
- If You Got The Money Honey I Got The Time
- Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain
- Under the Double Eagle
- Blue Skies
- Georgia On My Mind
- All Of Me
- Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
- Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
- On The Road Again
- Night Life
- So Much to Do
- I Feel Sorry for Him
- Any Old Arms Won't Do
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- Blame It on the Times
- I Just Don't Understand
- Rainy Day Blues
- You'll Always Have Someone
- Follow Me Around
- Will You Remember Mine
- Suffering in Silence
- Everything but You
- I Can't Find the Time
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Goodbye
- I Didn't Sleep a Wink
- Face of a Fighter
- End of Understanding
- I Hope So
- Always on My Mind
- I Never Go Around Mirrors
- Why Are You Pickin' on Me
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- Mona Lisa
- I'm Not Trying to Forget You
- If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
- City of New Orleans
- Medley: Mr. Record Man / Hello Walls / One Day at a Time
- Medley: The Last Letter / Half a Man
- I Never Cared for You
- Yesterday
- Touch Me
- Something to Think About
- I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye
- How Long Is Forever
- Night Life
- Medley: Opportunity to Cry / Permanently Lonely
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Blue Skies
- Georgia on My Mind
- Me and Paul
- City of New Orleans
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Always on My Mind
- All of Me
- I Never Cared for You
- Walkin' the Floor Over You
- Stardust
- Island in the Sea
- Wake Me When It's Over
- Little Things
- Last Thing on My Mind
- There Is No Easy Way (But There Is a Way)
- Nobody There but Me
- Cold November Wind
- Women Who Love Too Much
- All in the Name of Love
- Sky Train
- The Shelter Of Your Arms
- Broken Promises
- Blame It On The Times
- Some Other Time
- Will You Remember Mine
- Happiness Lives Next Door
- Go Away
- Right From Wrong
- I'll Stay Around
- End Of Understanding
- And So Will You My Love
- No Tomorrow In Sight
- Hope So
- Is There Something On Your Mind
- Face Of A Fighter
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- Waiting Time
- Everything But You
- Partners After All
- When I Dream
- Hello Love Goodbye
- Heart of Gold
- Kathleen
- Something
- So Much Like My Dad
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming)
- Home Away from Home
- When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song
- No Place for Me
- Man With the Blues
- Nite Life
- Hello Walls (album version)
- Funny How Time Slips Away (album version)
- Crazy (album version)
- Half a Man
- Mr. Record Man
- One in a Row
- The Party's Over
- Texas in My Soul
- Good Times (album version)
- Sweet Memories
- Little Things
- Any Old Arms Won't Do
- Everybody's Talkin' (album version)
- Pins and Needles (In My Heart)
- Once More With Feeling
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Laying My Burdens Down
- What Can You Do to Me?
- Kneel at the Feet of Jesus
- I'm a Memory
- Family Bible
- Summer of Roses (album version)
- Yesterday's Wine
- Me and Paul
- The Words Don't Fit the Picture
- Blame It on the Times
- You'll Always Have Someone
- Both Ends of the Candle
- I Can't Find the Time
- Slow Down Old World
- Things to Remember
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Goodbye
- I Hope So
- Shelter of Your Arms
- Will You Remember Mine
- No Tomorrow in Sight
- Waiting Time
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- A Dreamer's Holiday
- Corine, Corina
- Walkin' My Baby Back Home
- To Each His Own
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- Golden Earrings
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- I Can't Begin to Tell You
- I'll String Along With You
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- How High the Moon
- Stardust
- What a Way to Live
- Misery Mansion
- Rainy Day Blues
- Night Life
- Man With the Blues
- The Storm Has Just Begun
- Got You on My Mind
- These Days
- Mississippi Woman
- Why You Been Gone So Long
- Mary Magdelene
- West Virginia Man
- The Year That Clayton Delaney Died (feat. Waylon Jennings)
- A Couple More Years
- Within Your Crowd
- Blackjack Country Chain
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Pick Up the Tempo (feat. Waylon Jennings)
- Laying My Burdens Down
- Mountain Dew
- What Can You Do to Me Now
- To Make a Long Story Short (She's Gone)
- Hello Walls
- Write Your Own Songs (feat. Waylon Jennings)
- It Should Be Easier Now
- So Much to Do
- Some Other World
- Waltz Across Texas
- Will You Remember
- Intro
- Whiskey River
- Stay a Little Longer
- Good Hearted Woman
- Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away
- Crazy
- Night Life
- Night Life Cont.
- If You Got the Money
- The Workin' Man Blues
- Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Amazing Grace
- Unclouded Day
- Outro Music
- Whisky River
- Stay a Little Longer
- Good Hearted Woman
- Time Slips Away
- Bobby Nelson Piano Jam
- Old Flames
- Me and Paul
- Workingmans Blues
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Me + Bobby McGee
- Loving You Is Easy
- Blood Mary Morning
- Blue Eyes Crying
- [untitled]
- Blue Skies
- Georgia on My Mind
- Why Not Take All of Me
- Stardust Melody
- Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- Yours Love
- Kneel at the Feet of Jesus
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Will You Remember
- Wonderful Future
- Wake Me Up When It's Over
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Rainy Day Blues
- If You Really Loved Me
- The Words Don't Fit the Picture
- What Do You Want Me to Do
- Stay Away From Lonely Places
- Good Hearted Woman
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- My Kind of Girl
- I'd Rather You Didn't Love Me
- Undo the Right
- One Step Beyond
- I Want a Girl
- Country Willie
- You Left a Long, Long Time Ago
- London
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Who'll Buy Me Memories
- No Love Around
- Come on Home
- Mountain Dew
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Stardust
- The City of New Orleans
- All of Me
- My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys
- On the Road Again
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Let It Be Me
- Blue Skies
- Always on My Mind
- Georgia on My Mind
- Why Do I Have to Choose
- Broken Promises
- Slow Down Old World
- Healing Hands of Time
- And So Will You My Love
- Things to Remember
- One Step Beyond
- If You Can't Undo the Wrong Undo the Right
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- Why Are You Picking on Me?
- I Feel Sorry for Him
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Goodbye
- I Can't Find the Time
- Any Old Arms Won't Do
- I Let My Mind Wonder
- Shelter of My Arms
- I Just Don't Understand
- You'll Always Have Someone
- I Didn't Sleep a Wink
- One Step Beyond
- The Ghost
- End of Understanding
- Lets Pretend
- Blame It on the Times
- I Feel Sorry for Him
- Everything but You
- Wastin' Time
- Broken Promises
- Go Away
- Shelter of Your Arms
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- Face of a Fighter
- I Hope So
- Some Other Time
- Heartaches
- I Just Don't Understand
- You'll Always Have Someone
- Suffer
- No Tommorrow in Sight
- I'm Gonna Lose a Lot of Teardrops
- A New Way to Cry
- I Let My Mind Wander
- December Day
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street
- I Can't Find the Time
- I Didn't Sleep a Wink
- Silent Night
- Pretty Paper
- Away in a Manger
- Deck the Halls
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Joy to the World
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- The First Noel
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- I Love You Because
- Heartaches by the Number
- Seasons of My Heart
- San Antonio Rose
- Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
- Fraulein
- Go on Home
- I'd Trade All of My Tomorrows [For Just One Yesterday]
- I Don't Feel Anything
- I Can't Find The Time
- Why Are You Picking On Me
- Follow Me Around
- Who Do You Know In Dallas
- I Let My Mind Wonder
- Pages
- Slow Down Ole World
- Things To Remember
- December Days
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- Ashamed
- Always on My Mind
- Without a Song
- Georgia on My Mind
- Stardust
- All of Me
- Danny Boy
- Let It Be Me
- Mona Lisa
- Blue Skies
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- Over the Rainbow
- For All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Georgia on My Mind
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Pancho and Lefty
- Mona Lisa
- Let It Be Me
- Always on My Mind
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Over the Rainbow
- Golden Earrings
- Everything's Beautiful (In It's Own Way)
- City of New Orleans
- They All Went to Mexico
- Living in the Promiseland
- Highway Man
- Summer of Roses
- Seven Spanish Angels
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- Take It to the Limit
- San Antonio Rose
- I'll Be There
- I Fall to Pieces
- Crazy Arms
- Release Me
- Don't You Ever Get Tired Of Hurting Me
- This Cold War With You
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Night Life
- Deep Water
- Faded Love
- I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train
- Forgiving You Was Easy
- I Let My Mind Wander
- I'm a Memory
- She's Gone
- Old Five & Dimers Like Me
- I Never Cared for You
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street
- Me and Paul
- One Day at a Time
- Pretend I Never Happened
- Black Rose
- Till I Gain Control Again
- Bloody Mary Morning
- I'm a Memory
- Mr. Record Man
- Hello Walls
- One Day at a Time
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Amazing Grace
- Take This Job and Shove It (With Johnny Paycheck)
- Uncloudy Day
- The Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
- A Song for You
- Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
- Georgia on My Mind
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Whiskey River
- The Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
- So Much to Do
- (How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again
- Bloody Mary Morning
- No Love Around
- After the Fire Is Gone
- Whiskey River
- Me and Paul
- Medley: Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / Night Life
- Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
- Walkin'
- Bloody Mary Morning / Take Me Back to Tulsa
- The Party's Over
- Truck Drivin' Man
- She Thinks I Still Care
- Good Hearted Woman
- Sister's Coming Home
- Sugar Moon
- I'm a Fool to Care
- Rosetta
- I'll Sail My Ship Alone
- New Way to Cry
- Blame It on the Times
- Go Away
- Everything but You
- The Ghost
- Broken Promises
- I Didn't Sleep a Wink
- Touch Me (live)
- I Can't Find the Time
- And So Will You My Love
- Things to Remember
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Suffering in Silence
- Healing Hands of Time
- Slow Down Old World
- The Face of the Fighter
- Why Are You Picking on Me
- The Shelter of Your Arms
- I Hope So
- Any Old Arms Won't Do
- December Day
- The Storm Has Just Begun
- What a Way to Live
- Rainy Day Blues
- Night Life
- I'm So Ashamed
- Following Me Around
- Country Willie
- Night Life
- There'll be No Tear Drops Tonight
- Funny How Time Slips Awy
- Hello Walls
- Crazy
- Touch Me
- Wake Me When It's All Over
- Seasons of my Heart
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- San Antonio Rose
- Heartaches by the Number
- Wabash Cannon Ball
- Family Bible
- Good-Hearted Woman
- Home in San Antone
- Have I Told You Lately that I Love You
- Help Me Make It through the Night
- I Love You Because
- Mr. Record Man
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- I Didn't Sleep A Wink
- The Shelter of Your Arms
- Things To Remember
- I Can't Find The Time
- Everything But You
- Both Ends of The Candle
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- Why Are You Picking on Me
- The Ghost
- Broken Promises
- Blame It on The Times
- Happiness Lives Next Door
- Building Heartaches
- Half a Man
- Touch Me
- Let's Pretend
- The Last Letter
- I'm Gonna Lose A Lot of Teardrops
- Rainy Day Blues
- Me and Bobby McGee
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- The Pilgrim: Chapter 33
- Why Me
- For the Good Times
- You Show Me Yours
- Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
- Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
- Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
- Night Life
- Once More With Feeling
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Streets of Laredo
- Everybody's Talkin'
- Crazy Arms
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Born to Lose
- I'd Trade All My Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday)
- Without a Song
- Once in a While
- Autumn Leaves
- I Can't Begin to Tell You
- Harbor Lights
- Golden Earrings
- You'll Never Know
- To Each His Own
- As Time Goes By
- Dreamer's Holiday
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- Right or Wrong
- Roly Poly
- Let Me Talk to You
- The Things I Might Have Been
- The Way You See Me
- Columbus Stockade Blues (version 1)
- Together
- You Took My Happy Away (version 1)
- Second Fiddle
- Opportunity to Cry
- Lonely Little Mansion
- You Took My Happy Away (version 2)
- Feed It a Memory
- I Hope So
- This Cold War With You
- Blue Must Be the Color of the Blues
- Seasons of My Heart
- At the Bottom
- I'll Walk Alone
- River Boy
- Am I Blue
- Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
- There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
- Tomorrow Night (You'll Have Another Sweetheart)
- Columbus Stockade Blues (version 2)
- Columbus Stockade Blues (version 3)
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Goodbye
- River Boy
- At the Bottom
- I Hope So
- By the Rivers of Babylon
- Kneel At the Feet of Jesus
- Family Bible
- Tell It To Jesus
- When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels
- Suppertime
- Where No One Stands Alone
- Why Me
- One Day At A Time
- Revive Us Again
- Stormy Weather
- What a Wonderful World
- Ole Buttermilk Sky
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- Am I Blue
- Unchained Melody
- Stardust
- Old Fashioned Love
- That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
- Georgia on a Fast Train
- Ramblin' Fever
- Shotgun Willie
- Rainin' in My Heart
- Stormy Weather
- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
- Still Is Still Moving to Me
- Midnight Rider
- Pressure Drop
- I'll Never Be Free
- Opportunity to Cry
- Pancho and Lefty
- Overtime
- Mama Tried
- Comes Love
- We Had It All
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
- I'll Fly Away
- Seashores of Old Mexico
- Without You on My Side
- When Times Were Good
- Jimmy the Broom
- Yesterday
- If I Could Only Fly
- Shotgun and a Pistol
- Love Make a Fool of Us All
- Why do I Have to Choose
- Silver Wings
- Georgia on My Mind
- Stardust
- On the Road Again
- You Were Always on My Mind
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- Good Hearted Woman
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- City of New Orleans
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Seven Spanish Angles
- Luckenbach, Texas
- Whiskey River
- All of Me
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Twilight Time
- Georgia on My Mind
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Always on My Mind
- Crazy
- Unchained Melody
- Moon River
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Stardust
- That Lucky Old Sun
- Blue Skies
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Always
- Ole Buttermilk Sky
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- What a Wonderful World
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before
- Fire and Rain
- Me and Paul
- Crazy Arms
- Night Life
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Hello Walls
- If You Can Touch Her At All
- Yesterday's Wine
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Good Times
- Mountain Dew
- You Ought to Hear Me Cry
- One in a Row
- She's Not for You
- San Antonio Rose
- Once More With Feeling
- I'm a Memory
- Pretty Paper
- Sweet Memories
- Little Things
- Laying My Burdens Down
- The Party's Over
- My Love for the Rose
- Changing Skies
- Tougher Than Leather
- Little Old Fashioned Karma
- Somewhere in Texas
- Beer Barrel Polka
- Summer of Roses
- Somewhere in Texas
- My Love for the Rose
- The Convict and the Rose
- Changing Skies
- I Am the Forest
- Nobody Slides, My Friend
- What Now My Love
- Sweet Memories
- Good Times
- Bring Me Sunshine
- Little Things
- One in a Row
- Streets of Laredo
- Born to Lose
- Minstrel Man
- Mountain Dew
- Crazy Arms
- Johnny One Time
- Is There Something on Your Mind
- I Can't Find the Time
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- Things to Remember
- Sufferin' In Silence
- I Let My Mind Wander
- One Stop Beyond
- I Feel Sorry for Him
- You'll Always Have Someone
- I Just Don't Understand
- Any Ol' Arms Won't Do
- Face of a Fighter
- I Hope So
- End of Understanding
- Nobody Slides, My Friend
- Little Old Fashioned Karma
- Harbor Lights
- Without a Song
- Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
- City of New Orleans
- Who'll Buy My Memories
- Write Your Own Songs
- Forgiving You Was Easy
- Me and Paul
- When I Dream
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Living in the Promiseland
- There Is No Easy Way (But There Is a Way)
- Ole Buttermilk Sky
- A Horse Called Music
- Nothing I Can Do About It Now
- Is the Better Part Over
- Ain't Neccessarily So
- Still Is Still Moving to Me
- Stardust
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Me & Bobby McGee
- I Love You a Thousand Ways
- All of Me
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Georgia on My Mind
- Red Headed Stranger
- Me and Paul
- Island in the Sea
- City of New Orleans
- Uncloudy Day
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Remember Me
- If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
- Georgia on My Mind
- Heartbreak Hotel
- All of Me
- Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
- My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys
- On the Road Again
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- Always on My Mind
- Everything Is Beautiful (In Its Own Way)
- Let It Be Me
- Blue Skies
- Pancho and Lefty
- I Didn't Come Here (And I Ain't Leavin')
- Night Life (feat. Eric Clapton)
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (feat. Shania Twain)
- Homeward Bound (feat. Paul Simon)
- Beer for My Horses (feat. Toby Keith)
- Crazy (feat. Diana Krall and Elvis Costello)
- To All the Girls I've Loved Before (feat. Wyclef Jean)
- Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You) (feat. Norah Jones)
- She Loves My Automobile (feat. ZZ Top)
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (feat. Shelby Lynne)
- A Song for You (feat. Leon Russel and Ray Charles)
- I Couldn't Believe It Was True (feat. Mellencamp)
- Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning (feat. Kenny Chesney)
- Run That by Me One More Time (feat. Ray Price)
- One Time Too Many (feat. Steven Tyler)
- Opportunity to Cry
- Three Days
- Undo the Right
- What Do You Think of Her Now
- I've Just Destroyed the World
- Permanently Lonely
- Are You Sure
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Things to Remember
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Crazy
- The Local Memory
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Something to Think About
- I'm Still Here
- Save Your Tears (untitled)
- Man With the Blues
- What a Way to Live
- Nite Life
- Rainy Day Blues
- You'll Always Have Someone
- Everything but You
- Mr. Record Man
- Hello Walls
- Crazy
- Touch Me
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Am I Blue
- Half a Man
- Opportunity to Cry
- San Antonio Rose
- One in a Row
- Bring Me Sunshine
- Me and Paul
- Spanish Eyes
- Moon River
- Some Enchanted Evening
- What a Wonderful World
- South of the Border
- Ole Buttermilk Sky
- The Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)
- To Each His Own
- Twilight Time
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
- Me and Paul
- Yesterday's Wine
- December Day
- Blody Mary Morning
- Healing Hands of Time
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Family Bible
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Mr. Record Man
- I Gotta Get Drunk
- Hello Walls
- Sweet Memories
- Night Life
- Waltz Across Texas
- The Party's Over
- Some Other World
- Goin' Home
- Once More With Feeling
- Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles and Scenes
- Across the Borderline
- American Tune
- Don't Give Up
- Farther Down the Line
- Getting Over You
- Graceland
- Heartland
- I Love the Life I Live
- If I Were the Man You Wanted
- She's Not for You
- Still Is Still Moving to Me
- The Most Unoriginal Sin
- Valentine
- What Was It You Wanted
- Me and the Drummer
- Home Motel
- I Let My Mind Wander
- I'd Rather You Didn't Love Me
- Something to Think About
- No Tomorrow in Sight
- I'm So Ashamed
- A Moment Isn't Very Long
- Rainy Day Blues
- You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Good-bye
- I Guess I've Come to Live Here in Your Eyes
- Forgiving You Is Easy
- What a Way to Live
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Hello Walls
- The Part Where I Cry
- Undo the Right
- Wake Me When It's Over
- Crazy
- Touch Me
- One Step Beyond
- Three Days
- Half a Man
- Where My House Lives
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Mr. Record Man
- Night Life
- Right from Wrong
- Waiting Time
- I'll Stay Around
- Broken Promises
- Happiness Lives Next Door
- The Ghost
- I'm Gonna Lose a Lot of Teardrops
- Go Away
- Pride Wins Again
- No Tomorrow in Sight
- A New Way to Cry
- Good Hearted Woman
- Night Life
- One Day at a Time
- Hello Walls
- Crazy
- Funny How the Time Slips Away
- Touch Me
- Three Days
- Undo the Right
- Half a Man
- Darkness on the Face of the Earth
- Detour
- I Saw the Light
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Let the Rest of the World Go By
- Trouble in Mind (feat. Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt)
- Don't Fence Me In
- The Wild Side of Life
- Ridin' Down the Canyon
- Sioux City Sue
- You Are My Sunshine
- Danny Boy
- Always
- Summertime
- Because of You
- Am I Blue
- Tenderly
- Far Away Places
- That Lucky Old Sun
- Stormy Weather
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Crazy
- Hello Walls
- Mr. Record Man
- Undo the Right
- Half a Man
- Three Days
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Cold War With You
- Country Willie
- Night Life
- Railroad Lady
- Heartaches of a Fool
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Whiskey River
- Good Hearted Woman
- Georgia on My Mind
- All of Me
- If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
- Look What Thoughts Will Do
- Remember Me
- Uncloudy Day
- Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
- Help Me Make It Through the Night
- Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
- I'd Have to Be Crazy
- Faded Love (w/ Ray Price)
- On the Road Again
- Midnight Rider
- Heartbreak Hotel (w/ Leon Russell)
- If You Could Touch Her At All
- Till I Gain Control Again
- Stay a Little Longer
- Vous et Moi
- Nuages
- Night and Day
- All the Things You Are
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Gypsy
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Over the Waves
- September in the Rain
- Bandera
- One Day at a Time
- Night Life
- The Party's Over
- My Own Peculiar Way
- Hello, Walls
- Sunday Morning' Comin' Down
- Fire and Rain
- San Antonio
- The Words Don't Fit the Picture
- Good Hearted Woman
- Blackjack County Chains
- You Ought to Hear Me Cry
- Bring Me Sunshine
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- She's Not for You
- Mr. Record Man
- Healing Hands of Time
- I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye
- I'm a Memory
- Yours Love
- December Day
- Moonlight Becomes You
- Afraid
- The Heart Of A Clown
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- Everywhere You Go
- Have I Stayed Away Too Long
- Sentimental Journey
- The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
- You'll Never Know
- I'll Keep On Loving You
- You Just Can't Play A Sad Song On A Banjo
- You Always Hurt The One You Love
- Someday You'll Want Me To Want You
- In God's Eyes
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Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
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- Duration: 3:37
- Published: 25 Oct 2009
- Updated: 21 Jul 2012
Music video by Willie Nelson performing Always On My Mind. (C) 1982 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Willie Nelson - On the Road Again
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- Duration: 2:35
- Published: 17 Jul 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
"On the Road Again" song by Willie Nelson, from the Super Hits album.
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Willie Nelson - 1997 - Funny How Time Slips Away
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- Duration: 3:37
- Published: 31 Jan 2007
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Willie Nelson - 1997 - Funny How Time Slips Away.
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The City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
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- Duration: 4:50
- Published: 17 Aug 2007
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
City of New Orleans is a folk song written by Steve Goodman, describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans via the Illinois Central Railroad in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the eponymous train for a visit to his wife's family. He performed the song for Arlo Guthrie in the Quiet Knight, a bar in Chicago, and Guthrie agreed to add it to his repertoire. The song was a hit for Guthrie on his 1972 album Hobo's Lullaby, and is now more closely associated with him, although Goodman performed it until his death in 1984. The song has also been covered by Willie Nelson, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Hank Snow, and others. Willie Nelson version Steve Goodman won a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1984 for Willie Nelson's version, which was included on his 1984 album of the same name. It reached #1 on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the United States[and the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. The City of New Orleans - Lyrics Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail All along the south-bound odyssey The train pulls out at Kankakee And rolls along past houses, farms and fields Passin' trains that have no names And freight yards full of old black men And the grave-yards of the rusted automobiles Good morning America, how are you? Say don't you know me, I <b>...</b>
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Willie Nelson and Shania Twain, Blue eyes crying in the rain
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 21 Apr 2007
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
From The DVD Willie Nelson and Friends Live and Kicking. Celebrating his 70st birthday.One of the best music DVD's.If you like this, buy the DVD
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Willie Nelson / On The Road Again
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 02 Dec 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Willie / Live @ The Grand Ole Opry
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Willie Nelson - Blue Skies
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 08 May 2007
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Wembley, England/UK
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Willie Nelson - You Were Always On My Mind
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- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 02 Sep 2007
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
You Were Always On My Mind Willie Nelson All Images From deviantart.com Arranged By Sonia E. Rodriguez-Ortega SERO
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Willie Nelson - Whiskey River
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 09 Mar 2008
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Very very good song, please check out all of my other videos.
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Willie Nelson, Angel flying too close to the ground
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- Duration: 3:42
- Published: 10 Feb 2007
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
From the Honeysuckle Rose movie, 1980 If you like it, buy the DVD
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Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
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- Duration: 2:51
- Published: 26 May 2006
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
LiveFromAustinTX.com Get the 17 song performance on DVD!
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Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
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- Duration: 2:30
- Published: 16 May 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 February 13, 2002) was an influential American country music singer and musician. A series of duet albums with Willie Nelson in the late 1970s culminated in the 1978 crossover hit, "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys". Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet and actor. 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). "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys" is a country music song written by Ed Bruce and Patsy Bruce. It was made famous by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, whose version was first released on their 1978 album Waylon & Willie. The song's lyrics advise mothers to raise their children as doctors or lawyers rather than cowboys, who seem to be "always alone." The Waylon & Willie version peaked at No. 1 in March 1978, spending four weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart. Lyrics: Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold And they'd rather give you a song then diamonds or gold Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's each night begins a new day And if you don't understand him and he don't die young He'll probly just ride away Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks Make 'em <b>...</b>
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Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias - To All the Girls I've Loved Before (Live at Farm Aid 1986)
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- Duration: 3:06
- Published: 01 Apr 2011
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias perform "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" at Farm Aid II in Austin, Texas on July 4, 1986. Willie Nelson is a co-founder and President of Farm Aid, along with Neil Young, and John Mellencamp. Thethree agreed that family farmers were in dire need of assistance and in 1985 planned the first Farm Aid concert for American farmers. The following year, Farm Aid II was held on July 4 with performances by Alabama, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Julio Iglesias, Waylon Jennings, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many more. Dave Matthews joined Farm Aid's Board of Directors in 2001 to help further Farm Aid's mission of keeping family farmers on their land. For more, visit www.farmaid.org
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WILLIE NELSON - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
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- Duration: 4:01
- Published: 15 Mar 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Willie Nelson plays A Whiter Shade Of Pale. From 45 rpm stereo disc of Willie Nelson - Cbs - 1982.
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Willie Nelson - Rainbow Connection
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- Duration: 5:48
- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Willie Nelson performing Rainbow Connection. (C) 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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Willie Nelson - Just Breathe
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- Duration: 4:05
- Published: 06 Jun 2012
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Willie Nelson performing Just Breathe. (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment
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Willie Nelson - I Never Cared For You
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- Duration: 5:02
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Willie Nelson performing I Never Cared For You. (C) 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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Willie Nelson Vid Vote 2 - Stardust
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- Duration: 2:09
- Published: 09 Aug 2008
- Updated: 17 Jul 2012
Response to AtomicUs5000's request for celebrity portrait subjects. VOTE for Willie Nelson by commenting on the latest Celebrity Portrait video at the AtomicUs500 - UPDATE! - FamoUs5K - channel: www.youtube.com Video Vote # 2 for Willie Nelson For )))STEREO((( use this link: www.youtube.com Music: "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish, from Willie's 1978 album of the same name. I edited about 1:40 from the middle of the song. Buy the CD or download the album from your favorite online retailer to get this & the other wonderful tunes in their entirety & high fidelity. All My Video Votes: Ian Anderson # 1 www.youtube.com Ian Anderson # 2 www.youtube.com Ian Anderson #3 www.youtube.com Ian Anderson #4 www.youtube.com Willie Nelson #1 www.youtube.com Willie Nelson #2 www.youtube.com Willie Nelson #3 www.youtube.com Willie Nelson #4 www.youtube.com ~R
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September Song - Willie Nelson
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- Duration: 4:35
- Published: 13 Sep 2010
- Updated: 21 Jul 2012
September Song by Williie Nelson a song about treasuring the years left in the autum of your life, and caring for the one you love. September Song" is an American pop standard composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday. It has since been recorded by numerous singers and instrumentalists. It was also used in the 1950 film September Affair.
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Willie Nelson - She Is Gone
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- Duration: 3:06
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Music video by Willie Nelson performing She Is Gone. (C) 1996 Mercury Records
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Willie Nelson & Norah Jones
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- Duration: 2:35
- Published: 04 Nov 2006
- Updated: 21 Jul 2012
Hello good Music
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Willie Nelson - Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
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- Duration: 4:25
- Published: 22 Feb 2010
- Updated: 10 Jul 2012
From "Country Music" out 4/20
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Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me
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- Duration: 3:48
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 19 Jul 2012
Music video by Willie Nelson performing You Don't Know Me. (C) 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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 Willie Nelson performing at Farm Aid in 2009 |
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| Birth name | Willie Hugh Nelson |
| Also known as | Red Headed Stranger |
| Born | (1933-04-30) April 30, 1933 (age 79) Abbott, Texas, United States[1] |
| Genres | Country, country rock, outlaw country, alternative country |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer, actor, activist |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Labels | Liberty, RCA, Atlantic, Columbia, Island, Justice Records, Lost Highway |
| Associated acts | Waylon Jennings, The Highwaymen, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson |
| Website | www.willienelson.com |
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Willie Hugh Nelson (pronounced /wɪli nɛlsən /; born April 30, 1933)[1] is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), 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 at the end of the 1960s 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 1950, he joined the Air Force but was later discharged due to back problems. After his return, Nelson attended Baylor University for two years but dropped out because he was succeeding in music. During this time, he worked as a disc jockey in Texas radio stations and a singer in honky tonks. Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he wrote "Family Bible" and recorded the song "Lumberjack" in 1956. In 1960, he signed a publishing contract with Pamper Music which allowed him to join Ray Price's band as a bassist. During that time, he wrote songs that would become country standards, including "Funny How Time Slips Away", "Hello Walls", "Pretty Paper", and "Crazy". In 1962, he recorded his first album, And Then I Wrote. Due to this success, Nelson signed in 1964 with RCA Victor and joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year. After mid-chart hits during the end of 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, and the failure to succeed in music, Nelson retired in 1972 and moved to Austin, Texas. The rise of the popularity of Hippie music in Austin motivated Nelson to return from retirement, performing frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters.
In 1973, after signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson turned to outlaw country, including albums such as Shotgun Willie and Phases and Stages. In 1975, he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded the critically acclaimed album, Red Headed Stranger. The same year, he recorded another outlaw country album, Wanted! The Outlaws, along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser. During the mid 1980s, while creating hit albums like Honeysuckle Rose and recording hit songs like "On the Road Again", "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", and "Pancho & Lefty", he joined the country supergroup The Highwaymen, along with fellow singers, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. During 1990 Nelson's assets were seized by the Internal Revenue Service, that claimed that he owed US $32,000,000. It was later discovered that his accountants, Price Waterhouse did not pay Nelson's taxes for years. The impossibility of Nelson to pay his outstanding debt was aggravated by weak investments made by him during the 1980s. Nelson released in 1991 The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?, the profits of the double album, destined to the IRS and the auction of Nelson's assets cleared his debt by 1993. During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson continued touring extensively, and released albums every year. Reviews ranged from positive to mixed. Nelson explored genres such as reggae, blues, jazz, and folk. Nelson made his first movie appearance in the 1979 film, The Electric Horseman, followed by other appearances in movies and on television.
Nelson is a major liberal activist and the co-chair of the advisory board of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which is in favor of marijuana legalization. On the environmental front, Nelson owns the bio-diesel brand Willie Nelson Biodiesel, which is made from vegetable oil. Nelson is also the honorary chairman of the Advisory Board of the Texas Music Project, the official music charity of the state of Texas.
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Early life[link]
Willie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, during the Great Depression on April 30, 1933, to Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson.[2] Nelson's ancestors were on his father's side English and Irish, while his mother's forebears were Irish and Cherokee.[3][4] The Nelson family had moved from Arkansas in 1929, looking for work. Nelson's grandfather, William, worked as a blacksmith, while his father worked as a mechanic.[5] His mother left soon after he was born,[6] and his father remarried and moved away, leaving the grandparents to bring up Nelson and his sister Bobbie. The Nelson's, who taught singing in schools while living in Arkansas, initiated their grandchildren in music.[7][8] Nelson's grandfather bought him a guitar when he was six, and taught him a few chords;[5] and with his sister Bobbie he sang gospel songs in the local church.[9] He wrote his first song when he was seven,[10] and played the guitar for the local band Bohemian Polka at age nine.[11] During the summer, like most of Abbott's inhabitants, the family picked cotton.[12] As Nelson didn't like picking cotton, starting at age thirteen and continuing through high school, he earned money by singing in local dance halls, taverns, and honky tonks.[13] Nelson was influenced musically during his childhood by Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow , Django Reinhardt, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong .[14][15]
Nelson attended Abbott High School where, as well as raising pigs for the Future Farmers of America organization,[2] he was a halfback in the school football team, and also played basketball as a guard, and as a shortstop in baseball.[16] While still at school he sang and played guitar in The Texans, a band formed by his sister's husband, Bud Fletcher.[11] After leaving school in 1950 he joined the United States Air Force for eight to nine months,[17] then worked as a disc jockey at local radio stations.[18] He had short stints with KHBR in Hillsboro, Texas and later with KBOP in Pleasanton, Texas.[19][20] In 1952, he married Martha Matthews, and from 1954 to 1956 studied agriculture at Baylor University.[21] Nelson joined the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, but dropped out to pursue a future in music.[22][23] Meanwhile, he held jobs as a tree-trimmer, saddle-maker, as well as selling door-to-door bibles, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias.[24]
Music career[link]
Beginnings (1956–1972)[link]
In 1956, Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington to begin his formal musical career. His first record, "No Place For Me" included Leon Payne's "Lumberjack" on the b-side,[25] but was not successful.[26] Nelson continued working as a radio announcer and singing in Vancouver clubs.[27] He sold the song "Family Bible" for US$50 to a guitar instructor, and the song turned into a hit for Claude Gray in 1960.[28] Nelson moved to Nashville in 1960, but no label signed him. Although most of his demos were rejected, thanks to his songwriting and Hank Cochran's help, he signed a publishing contract with Pamper Music. After Ray Price recorded Nelson's "Night Life", Nelson joined Price's touring band as a bass player. While playing with Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, Nelson's songs became hits for other artists, including "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Hello Walls" (Faron Young), "Pretty Paper" (Roy Orbison), and, most famously, "Crazy" (Patsy Cline),[27] which became the biggest jukebox hit of all time.[29]
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Written by Willie Nelson, Hello Walls, was a hit for Faron Young in 1961, and the song that gave Nelson national recognition as a songwriter. He recorded the song for his debut album And Then I Wrote.
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Nelson signed with Liberty Records and was recording by August 1961 at Quonset Hut Studio. His first two successful singles as an artist were released by the next year, including "Willingly" (which became his first charting single and first Top Ten at #10) and "Touch Me" (his second Top Ten, stalling at #7), a duet with his soon-to-be second wife, Shirley Collie.[30] He had not further hit singles. Nelson's tenure at Liberty yielded his first album entitled And Then I Wrote, released in September 1962.[31] Fred Foster of Monument Records signed Nelson in early 1964, but only one single was released, "I Never Cared For You".[32]
By the fall of 1964, Nelson had moved to RCA Victor Records at the behest of Chet Atkins, signing a contract for US $10,000 per year.[33] Country Willie – His Own Songs became Nelson's first RCA album, recorded in April 1965. That same year he joined the Grand Ole Opry[34]. During his first few years on RCA, Nelson had no significant hits, but from November 1966 through March 1969, his singles reached the Top 25 in a consistent manner. "One In a Row" (#19, 1966), "The Party's Over" (#24 during a 16-week chart run in 1967), and his cover of Morecambe & Wise's "Bring Me Sunshine" (#13, March 1969) were Nelson's best-selling records during his time with RCA.[26]
After recording his final RCA single – "Mountain Dew" (backed with "Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles and Scenes") in late April 1972, RCA requested that Nelson renew his contract ahead of schedule, with the implication that RCA would not release his latest recordings if he did not.[35] Due to the failure of his albums to succeed, and particularly frustrated by the reception of Yesterday's Wine, although his contract was not over, Nelson decided to retire from music.[36] Nelson moved to Austin, Texas, where the burgeoning hippie music scene (see Armadillo World Headquarters) rejuvenated the singer. His popularity in Austin soared as he played his own brand of country music marked by country, folk and jazz influences.[37] In March, he performed on the final day of the Dripping Springs Reunion, a three-day country music festival aimed by its producers to be an annual event. Despite the failure to reach the expected attendance, the concept of the festival inspired Nelson to create the Fourth of July Picnic, his own annual event, starting the following year.[38] Nelson decided to return to the recording business, he signed Neil Rashen as his manager to negotiate with the RCA, who got the label to agree to end Nelson's contract upon repayment of US$14,000.[35] Rashen eventually signed Nelson to Atlantic Records for US$25,000 per year, becoming the label's first country artist.[33] By February 1973, Nelson was recording his acclaimed Shotgun Willie at Atlantic Studios in New York City.[39]
Outlaw country and success (1973–1989)[link]
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Introduction of the song "Shotgun Willie", opening track of the album of the same name that marked a change of style from Nelson's earlier recordings.
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Shotgun Willie, released in May 1973, earned excellent reviews but did not sell well. The album led Nelson to a new style, later stating that Shotgun Willie had "cleared his throat".[40] His next album, Phases and Stages, released in 1974, was a concept album about a couple's divorce, inspired by his own experience. Side one of the record is from the viewpoint of the man, while the other side is from the viewpoint of the woman.[41] The album included the hit single "Bloody Mary Morning." Nelson then moved to Columbia Records, where he signed a contract that gave him complete creative control, made possible by the critical and commercial success of his previous albums.[42] The result was the critically acclaimed, and massively popular 1975 concept album Red Headed Stranger. Although Columbia was reluctant to release an album with primarily a guitar and piano for accompaniment, Nelson and Waylon Jennings insisted. The album included a cover of Fred Rose's 1945 song "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", that had been released as a single previous to the album, and became Nelson's first number one hit as a singer.[43]
As Jennings was also achieving success in country music in the early 1970s, the pair were combined into a genre called outlaw country, since it did not conform to Nashville standards.[44] The album Wanted! The Outlaws in 1976 with Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser cemented the pair's outlaw image and became country music's first platinum album.[44] Later that year Nelson released The Sound in Your Mind (certified gold in 1978 and platinum in 2001)[45] and his first gospel album Troublemaker[46] (certified gold in 1986).[47] In 1978, Nelson released two more platinum albums, Waylon & Willie, a collaboration with Jennings that included "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys", a hit single written and performed by Ed Bruce.[48] Though observers predicted that Stardust would ruin his career, it went platinum the same year.[49] Nelson continued to top the charts with hit songs during the late 1970s, including "Good Hearted Woman", "Remember Me",[50] "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time", and "Uncloudy Day".[51]
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During the 1980s Nelson recorded a series of hit singles including "Midnight Rider", a 1980 cover of the Allman Brothers song which Nelson recorded for The Electric Horseman,[52] the soundtrack "On the Road Again" from the movie Honeysuckle Rose,[53] and a duet with Julio Iglesias titled "To All the Girls I've Loved Before". Pancho & Lefty, a duet album with Merle Haggard,[54] and WWII, with Jennings, came out in 1982,[55] while Take it to the Limit was released in 1983, also with Jennings.[56]
In the mid-1980s, Nelson, Jennings, Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash formed The Highwaymen,[57] who achieved platinum record sales and toured the world.[58] Meanwhile, he became more involved with charity work, such as singing on We are the World in 1984.[59] In 1985, Nelson had another success with Half Nelson, a compilation album of duets with a range of artists such as Ray Charles and Neil Young.[60] In 1980, Nelson performed on the south lawn of the White House. The September 13 concert featured First Lady Rosalynn Carter and Nelson in a duet of Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother".[61] Nelson frequently visited the White House according to his biography, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, where he smoked marijuana on the White House roof.[62]
IRS and later career (1990–present)[link]
In 1990, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seized most of Nelson's assets, claiming that he owed US$32,000,000. It was later discovered that his accountants, Price Waterhouse, had not been paying Nelson's taxes for years. In addition to the unpaid taxes, Nelson's situation was worsened by the weak investments he had made during the early 1980s.[63] His lawyer, Jay Goldberg, negotiated the sum to be lowered to US$16,000,000. Later, Nelson's attorney renegotiated a settlement with the IRS in which he paid US$6,000,000, although Nelson did not comply with the agreement.[64] Nelson released The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? as a double album, with all profits destined for the IRS. Many of his assets were auctioned and purchased by friends, who donated or rented his possessions to him for a nominal fee. He sued Price Waterhouse, contending that they put his money in illegal tax shelters.[65] The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount and Nelson cleared his debts by 1993.[63][66]
During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson toured continuously, recording several albums including 1998's critically acclaimed Teatro,[67] and performed and recorded with other acts including Phish,[68] Johnny Cash,[69] and Toby Keith. His duet with Keith, "Beer for My Horses", was released as a single and topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts for six consecutive weeks in 2003,[70] while the accompanying video won an award for "Best Video" at the 2004 Academy of Country Music Awards.[71] A USA Network television special celebrated Nelson's 70th birthday,[72] and Nelson released The Essential Willie Nelson as part of the celebration.[73] Nelson also appeared on Ringo Starr's 2003 album, Ringo Rama, as a guest vocal on "Write One for Me."
Nelson headlined the 2005 Tsunami Relief Austin to Asia concert to benefit the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which raised an estimated US$75,000 for UNICEF.[74] Also in 2005, a live performance of the Johnny Cash song "Busted" with Ray Charles was released on Charles' duets album Genius & Friends. Nelson's 2007 performance with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis at the Lincoln Center,[75] was released as the live album Two Men with the Blues in 2008; reaching number one in Billboard's Top Jazz Albums and number twenty on the Billboard 200.[76] In 2009 Nelson and Marsalis joined with Norah Jones in a tribute concert to Ray Charles, which resulted in the Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles album, released in 2011.[77] In 2010, Nelson released Country Music, a compilation of standards produced by T-Bone Burnett.[78] The album peaked number four in Billboard's Top Country Albums, and twenty on the Billboard 200.[79] It was nominated for Best Americana Album in the 2011 Grammy Awards.[80] In 2011 Nelson participated in the concert Kokua For Japan, a fundraising event for the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan which raised US$1.6 million.[81] On February 2012, Legacy Recordings signed a deal with Nelson that included the release of new material, as well as past releases that would be selected and complemented with outtakes and other material selected by Nelson.[82]
Other ventures[link]
Nelson's acting debut was in the 1979 movie, The Electric Horseman, followed by appearances in Honeysuckle Rose, Thief, and Barbarosa.[83] He played the role of Red Loon in Coming Out of the Ice in 1982 and starred in Songwriter two years later.[84] He portrayed the lead role in the 1986 film version of his concept album Red Headed Stranger. Other movies that Nelson acted in include Wag the Dog, Gone Fishin' (as Billy 'Catch' Pooler), the 1986 television movie Stagecoach (with Johnny Cash), Half Baked, Beerfest, The Dukes of Hazzard, Surfer, Dude and Swing Vote.[83] He has also made guest appearances on Miami Vice (1986's "El Viejo" episode), Delta, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, Monk, Adventures in Wonderland, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, King of the Hill, The Colbert Report, Swing Vote and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.[85]
In 1988 his first book, Willie: An Autobiography, was published.[86] The Facts of Life: and Other Dirty Jokes, a personal recollection of tour and musical stories from his career, combined with song lyrics, followed in 2002.[87] In 2005 he co-authored Farm Aid: A Song for America, a commemorative book about the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of Farm Aid.[88] His third book, co-authored with long time friend Turk Pipkin, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart, was published in 2006.[89] In 2007 a book advocating the use of bio-diesel and the reduction of gas emissions, On The Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and The Future of the Family Farm, was published.[90] His next book, A Tale Out of Luck, published in 2008 and co-authored by Mike Blakely, was Nelson's first fictional book.[91]
In 2002, Nelson became the official spokesman of the Texas Roadhouse, a chain of steakhouses. Nelson heavily promoted the chain and appeared on a special on Food Network. The chain installed Willie's Corner, a section dedicated to him and decked out with Willie memorabilia, at several locations.[92] In 2008, Nelson reopened Willie's place, a truckstop in Hillsboro, Texas. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court allowed Nelson to invest in it. The establishment currently has about 80 employees[93] and is used as a concert hall with a bar and a 1,000 square feet (93 m2) dance floor.[94]
Nelson has practised different styles of martial arts, beginning with Kung Fu during the 1980s, as well as Tae Kwon Do, in which he holds a Black belt degree.[95]
Music style[link]
Nelson uses a variety of music styles to create his own distinctive blend of country music – a hybrid of jazz, pop, blues, rock and folk.[96] His "unique sound", which uses a "relaxed, behind-the-beat singing style and gut-string guitar",[97] and his "nasal voice and jazzy, off-center phrasing",[96] has been responsible for his wide appeal, and has made him a "vital icon in country music",[96] influencing the "new country, new traditionalist, and alternative country movements of the '80s and '90s".[96]
Guitars[link]
In 1969, the Baldwin company gave Nelson an amplifier and a three-cord pickup electric guitar. During a show in Helotes, Texas, Nelson left the guitar on the floor of the stage, that was later stepped on by a drunk man.[98] He sent it to be repaired in Nashville by Shot Jackson, who told Nelson that the damage was too great. Jackson offered him a Martin N-20 Classical guitar, and, at Nelson's request, moved the pickup to the Martin. Nelson purchased the guitar unseen for US$750 and named it after Roy Rogers' horse "Trigger".[99] The next year Nelson rescued the guitar from his burning ranch.[100][101][102]
Constant strumming with a guitar pick over the decades has worn a large sweeping hole into the guitar's body near the sound hole—the N-20 has no pick-guard since classical guitars are meant to be played fingerstyle instead of with picks.[29] Its soundboard has been signed by over a hundred of Nelson's friends and associates, ranging from fellow musicians to lawyers and football coaches.[99] The first signature on the guitar was Leon Russell's, who asked Nelson initially to sign his guitar. When Nelson was about to sign it with a marker, Russell requested him to scratch it instead, explaining that the guitar would be more valuable in the future. Interested in the concept, Nelson requested Russell also to also sign his guitar.[98] In 1991, during his process with the IRS, Nelson was worried that Trigger could be auctioned off, stating: "When Trigger goes, I'll quit". He asked his daughter, Lana, to take the guitar from the studio before any IRS agent got there, and bring it to him on Maui.[101] Nelson then hid the guitar in his manager's house until his debt was paid in 1993.[99]
In his book, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to Happiness in Your Heart, Nelson described the influence of the guitar in his style: "One of the secrets to my sound is almost beyond explanation. My battered old Martin guitar, Trigger, has the greatest tone I’ve ever heard from a guitar [...] If I picked up the finest guitar made this year and tried to play my solos exactly the way you heard them on the radio or even at last night’s show, I’d always be a copy of myself and we’d all end up bored. But if I play an instrument that is now a part of me, and do it according to the way that feels right for me [...] I’ll always be an original".[103]
Activism[link]
Nelson is active in a number of issues. Along with Neil Young and John Mellencamp, he set up Farm Aid in 1985 to assist and increase awareness of the importance of family farms,[104] after Bob Dylan's comments during the Live Aid concert that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt.[105] The first concert included Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, and Neil Young among many others,[106] and raised over $9 million for America's family farmers.[107] Besides organizing and performing in the annual concerts, Nelson is the president of the board of Farm Aid.[108]
Nelson is a co-chair of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) advisory board.[109] He has worked with NORML for years, fighting for marijuana legalization. In 2005 Nelson and his family hosted the first annual "Willie Nelson & NORML Benefit Golf Tournament", leading to a cover appearance and inside interview in the January 2008 issue of High Times magazine.[110] After his arrest for possession of marijuana in 2010, Nelson created the TeaPot party under the motto "Tax it, regulate it and legalize it!".[111][112]
Nelson supported Dennis Kucinich's campaign in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries. He raised money, appeared at events, and composed the song "Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth?", criticizing the war in Iraq.[113] He recorded a radio advertisement asking for support to put musician/author Kinky Friedman on the ballot as an independent candidate for the 2006 Texas gubernatorial election.[114] Friedman promised Nelson a job in Austin as the head of a new Texas Energy Commission due to his support of bio-fuels.[115] In January 2008, Nelson filed a suit against the Texas Democratic Party, alleging that the party violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution by refusing to allow co-plaintiff Kucinich to appear on the primary ballot because he had scratched out part of the loyalty oath on his application.[116]
In 2004, he and his wife Annie became partners with Bob and Kelly King in the building of two Pacific Bio-diesel plants, one in Salem, Oregon and the other at Carl's Corner, Texas (the Texas plant was founded by Carl Cornelius, a longtime Nelson friend and the namesake for Carl's Corner).[117] In 2005, Nelson and several other business partners formed Willie Nelson Biodiesel[118] ("Bio-Willie"), a company that is marketing bio-diesel bio-fuel to truck stops. The fuel is made from vegetable oil (mainly soybean oil), and can be burned without modification in diesel engines.[119]
Nelson is an advocate for better treatment for horses and has been campaigning for the passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 503/S. 311) alongside the Animal Welfare Institute.[120] He is on its Board of Directors and has adopted a number of horses from Habitat for Horses.[121] In 2008, Nelson signed on to warn 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 of the major corporations that use milk from calves raised at California's Mendes Calf Ranch, which employs an intensive confinement practice that was the subject of a lawsuit and campaign brought by the Animal Legal Defense Fund.[122]
Personal life[link]
Nelson lives in Maui, Hawaii, in a largely self-sustaining community where all the homes use only solar power.[123] Neighbors include Kris Kristofferson, Woody Harrelson, and Owen Wilson.[124]
Willie Nelson has married four times and fathered seven children.[125] His first marriage was to Martha Matthews; it lasted from 1952 to 1962, and produced three children: Lana, Susie, and Billy. The last committed suicide in 1991.[126] The marriage was marked by violence, with Matthews assaulting Nelson several times.[127][34] Nelson's next marriage was to Shirley Collie in 1963.[128] The couple divorced in 1971, after Collie found a bill from the maternity ward of a Houston hospital charged to Nelson and Connie Koepke for the birth of Paula Carlene Nelson.[127] Koepke and Nelson married the same year and had two daughters, Paula Carlene and Amy Lee. Following a divorce in 1988, he married his current wife, Annie D'Angelo, in 1991. They have two sons, Lukas Autry and Jacob Micah.[129] Nelson traces his genealogy to the American Revolutionary War, in which his ancestor John Nelson served as a major.[130]
While swimming in Hawaii in 1981, Nelson's lung collapsed. All of his scheduled concerts were cancelled and he was taken to the Maui Memorial Hospital.[131] Nelson temporarily stopped smoking cigarettes each time his lungs became congested, and resumed when the congestion ended.[132] In 2008 he started to smoke with a carbon-free system to avoid the effects of smoke in his lungs.[102][133] In 2004 Nelson underwent surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, as he had damaged his wrists by continuously playing the guitar.[134] On the recommendation of his doctor, he cancelled his scheduled concerts and only wrote songs during his recovery.[135]
Nelson has been arrested several times for marijuana possession. The first occasion was in 1974, in Dallas, Texas.[136] Twenty years later, in 1994, highway patrolmen found a marijuana cigarette in his car near Waco, Texas; the resulting court appearance caused him to cancel his appearance at the Grammy awards.[133] While travelling to Ann W. Richards' funeral in 2006, Nelson, along with his manager and his sister, Bobbi, were arrested in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana and charged with possession of marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms.[137] Nelson received six months probation.[138] On November 26, 2010, Nelson was arrested for possession of six ounces of marijuana found in his tour bus while travelling from Los Angeles to Texas. He was released after paying bail of US$2,500.[139] Prosecutor Kit Bramblett supported not sentencing Nelson to jail due to the amount of marijuana being small, but suggested instead a US$100 fine and told Nelson that he would have him sing "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" for the court. Judge Becky Dean-Walker stated that Nelson had to pay the fine but did not require him to perform the song, explaining that the prosecutor was joking.[140] Nelson's lawyer Joe Turner reached an agreement with the prosecutor. Nelson was set to pay a US$500 fine to avoid a two-year jail sentence with a 30-day review period, which in case of another incident would end the agreement.[141] The judge later rejected the agreement, claiming that Nelson was receiving preferential treatment for his celebrity status, when the offence normally carried a one-year jail sentence.[142]
Legacy[link]
Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon.[143][144] He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993,[145] and he received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998.[146][147] In 2011, Nelson was inducted to the National Agricultural Hall of Fame, for his labor in Farm Aid and other fund risers to benefit farmers.[148]
In 2003 Governor Perry signed bill #2582, introduced by State Representative Elizabeth Ames Jones and Senator Jeff Wentworth,[149] which funded the Texas Music Project, the state's official music charity. Nelson was named Honorary Chairman of the Advisory Board of the project.[150] In 2005, Democratic Texas Senator Gonzalo Barrientos introduced a bill to name 49 miles (79 km) of the Travis County section of State Highway 130 after Nelson, and at one point 23 of the 31 state Senators were co-sponsors of the bill.[151] The legislation was dropped after two Republican senators, Florence Shapiro and Wentworth, objected, citing Nelson's lack of connection to the highway, his fundraisers for Democrats, his drinking, and his marijuana advocacy.[152]
An important collection of Willie Nelson materials (1975–1994) became part of the Wittliff collections of Southwestern Writers, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. The collection contains lyrics, screenplays, letters, concert programs, tour itineraries, posters, articles, clippings, personal effects, promotional items, souvenirs, and documents. It documents Nelson's IRS troubles and how Farm Aid contributions were 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.[153]
In April 2010, Nelson received the "Feed the Peace" award from The Nobelity Project for his extensive work with Farm Aid and overall contributions to world peace.[154] On June 23, 2010 he was inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.[155][156] Nelson is an honorary trustee of the Dayton International Peace Museum.[157] In 2010, Austin, Texas renamed Second Street to Willie Nelson Boulevard. The city also unveiled a life-size statue to honor him, placed at the entrance of Austin City Limits' new studio.[158] The non-profit organization Capital Area Statues commissioned sculptor Clete Shields to execute the project.[159] The statue was unveiled on April 20, 2012.[160] The date selected by the city of Austin unintentionally coincided with the number 4/20, associated with cannabis culture. In spite of the coincidence and Nelson's advocacy for the legalization of marijuana, the ceremony was scheduled also for 4:20 pm. During the ceremony, Nelson performed the song "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die".[161]
For many years, Nelson's image was marked by his red hair, often divided into two long braids partially concealed under a bandanna. In the April 2007 issue of Stuff Magazine Nelson was interviewed about his long locks.[162] "I started braiding my hair when it started getting too long, and that was, I don't know, probably in the 70's." On May 26, 2010, the Associated Press reported that Nelson had cut his hair,[163] and Nashville music journalist Jimmy Carter published a photograph of the pigtail-free Nelson on his website.[164] Reportedly, he wanted a more maintainable hairstyle, as well helping him stay cool more easily at his Maui home.[165]
Nelson's touring and recording group, the Family, is full of longstanding members. The original lineup included his sister Bobbie Nelson, drummer Paul English, harmonicist Mickey Raphael, bassist Bee Spears, Billy English (Paul's younger brother), and Jody Payne.[166] The current lineup includes all the members but Jody Payne, who retired, and Bee Spears, who died in 2011.[167] Willie & Family tours North America in the bio-diesel bus Honeysuckle Rose IV, which is fueled by Bio-Willie.[168]
Discography and other works[link]
As well as recording over sixty studio albums, Nelson has appeared in over thirty films and TV shows. His acting debut was in the 1979 movie, The Electric Horseman, followed by appearances in Honeysuckle Rose, Thief, and Barbarosa.[83]
- Recordings
Further information: Willie Nelson albums discography and Willie Nelson singles discography
- Films
Further information: Willie Nelson filmography
- Books
- Willie: An Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, 1988, with Bud Shrake
- The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes, Random House, 2002
- The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart, Gotham, 2006, with Turk Pipkin
- A Tale Out of Luck (a novel), Center Street, 2008, with Mike Blakely
- On The Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and The Future of the Family Farm, Fulcrum Publishing, 2007
- Farm Aid: A Song for America, 2005, Rodale Books, foreword by Willie Nelson
See also[link]
- Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
- List of country musicians
- Music of Austin
- List of best-selling music artists
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- Nelson, Willie; Pipkin, Turk (2007). The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart. Gotham. ISBN 1-59240-287-9.
- Nelson, Willie; Bud Shrake; Edwin Shrake (2000). Willie: An Autobiography. Cooper Square Press.
- Patoski, Joe Nick (2008). Willie Nelson: An Epic Life. Hachette Digital. ISBN 978-0-316-01778-7.
- Reid, Jan (2004). The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70197-7.
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- Texas Monthly. August 1976 [cited May 24, 2011];4.
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- Further reading
- The Encyclopedia of Country Music ed. Paul Kingsbury, pp. 374–76 "Willie Nelson", Bob Allen, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
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 Twain at the 2011 Juno Awards in March 2011 |
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| Birth name | Eilleen Regina Edwards |
| Also known as | Eilleen Twain (1967–1992) |
| Born | (1965-08-28) August 28, 1965 (age 46) Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Country, country pop, country rock |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, television personality |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Mercury Nashville |
| Associated acts | Billy Currington, Mark McGrath, Lionel Richie, Michael Bublé, Alison Krauss |
| Website | www.shaniatwain.com |
Shania Twain, OC (
/ʃəˌnaɪ.ə ˈtweɪn/; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me (1995), brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and is the ninth best-selling album in the U.S.[1] Her fourth album, Up!, was released in November 2002. To date it has sold 20 million copies worldwide.[1]
Twain has won five Grammy Awards and 27 BMI Songwriter awards.[1] She has had three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. She is the first (and currently only) female artist in history to have 3 consecutive albums reach diamond status, indicating sales of at least 10 million, certified by the RIAA. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country Pop",[2] Twain has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide[1] and is ranked 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era.[3] She was also ranked 72nd on Billboard's "Artists of the decade" (2000–10).[4] Most recently, Twain has her own TV series, Why Not? with Shania Twain, that premiered on the OWN on May 8, 2011. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 2, 2011.
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Early years[link]
Shania Twain was born Eileen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, daughter of Sharon (née Morrison) and Clarence Edwards. Her parents divorced when she was two and her mother then moved to Timmins, Ontario with Eilleen and her sisters Jill and Carrie Ann. Sharon married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwa, and they had a son together, Mark. Jerry adopted the girls, legally changing their last name to Twain. When Mark was still in diapers, the Twains adopted Jerry's baby nephew, Darryl, after Darryl's mother died. Because of her connection to her stepfather, in the past, people had presumed Twain's ancestry was Ojibwa, but she stated in an interview that her biological father was part Cree.[5] Through her maternal grandfather, she is a descendant of Zacharie Cloutier.[6] Her maternal grandmother, Eileen Pearce, emigrated from Newbridge, Kildare, Ireland.
Eilleen Twain had a hard childhood in Timmins. Her parents earned little and there was often a shortage of food in the household. Eilleen did not confide her situation to school authorities, fearing they might break up the family. In the remote, rugged community, she learned to hunt and to chop wood. Sharon and Jerry's marriage was at times stormy, and from a young age, Eilleen witnessed violent fights between them. Sharon struggled with bouts of depression. In the summer of 1979, while Jerry was at work, at Eilleen's insistence, her mother drove the rest of the family 680 km (425 mi) south to a Toronto homeless shelter for assistance.[7] Sharon returned to Jerry with the children in 1981. In Timmins, Twain started singing at bars at the age of eight to try to make ends meet, often earning twenty dollars between midnight and one in the morning performing for remaining customers after the bar had finished serving. Although she expressed a dislike for singing in those bars, Twain believes that this was her own kind of performing arts school on the road.[8] She has said of the ordeal, "My deepest passion was music and it helped. There were moments when I thought 'I hate this'. I hated going into bars and being with drunks. But I loved the music and so I survived".[9] Twain wrote her first songs at the age of ten, Is Love a Rose and Just Like the Storybooks which were fairy tales in rhyme.[10] She states that the art of creating, of actually writing songs, "was very different from performing them and became progressively important".[10]
In the early 1980s, Twain spent some time working with her father's reforestation business in northern Ontario, a business that employed some 75 Ojibwe and Cree workers. Although the work was demanding and the pay low, Twain said "I loved the feeling of being stranded. I'm not afraid of being in my own environment, being physical, working hard. I was very strong, I walked miles and miles every day and carried heavy loads of trees. You can't shampoo, use soap or deodorant, or makeup, nothing with any scent; you have to bathe and rinse your clothes in the lake. It was a very rugged existence, but I was very creative and I would sit alone in the forest with my dog and a guitar and would just write songs".[11]
Music career[link]
Career as Eilleen Twain[link]
At 13, Eilleen was invited to perform on CBC television's the Tommy Hunter Show. While attending Timmins High and Vocational School in Timmins, she was also the singer for a local band called "Longshot" which covered Top 40 music.[12]
After graduating from Timmins High in June 1983, Twain was eager to expand her musical horizons.[13] After the demise of the band Longshot, Twain was approached by a cover band led by Diane Chase called "Flirt" and they toured all over Ontario.[13] Twain also began taking singing lessons from Toronto-based coach Ian Garrett and would often clean his house in payment for her lessons.[14] In the autumn of 1984, Twain's talents were noticed by Toronto DJ Stan Campbell who wrote about her in a Country Music News article: "Eilleen possesses a powerful voice with an impressive range. She has the necessary drive, ambition and positive attitude to achieve her goals".[14] Campbell happened to be making an album by Canadian musician (and present-day CKTB radio personality) Tim Denis at the time and Twain was featured on the backing vocals of the song Heavy on the Sunshine.[15][14] Campbell later took Twain to Nashville to record some demos, which Twain found particularly difficult to finance. She became acquainted with regional country singer Mary Bailey who had had some country chart success in 1976. Bailey had seen Twain perform in Sudbury, Ontario, saying "I saw this little girl up on stage with a guitar and it absolutely blew me away. She performed Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". Her voice reminded me of Tanya Tucker, it had strength and character, a lot of feeling. She's a star, she deserves an opportunity".[16] Bailey later said "She sang a few songs that she had written, and I thought to myself, this kid is like nineteen years old, where does she get this? This is from a person who's lived sixty years".[17]
Bailey acquired the contract from Stan Campbell and Twain moved into Bailey's home on Lake Kenogami where she practiced her music every day for hours. In the fall of 1985, Bailey took Twain down to Nashville to stay with a friend, record producer Tony Migliore, who at the time was producing an album for fellow Canadian singer Kelita Haverland and Twain was featured on the backing vocals to the song Too Hot to Handle. She also demo-ed songs with Cyril Rawson but the demos were without success, partly due to Twain's wish to become a rock singer, not a country artist. After five months she returned to Canada and moved in with Bailey in a flat in downtown Kirkland Lake.[18]
There she met rock keyboardist Eric Lambier and drummer Randy Yurko and formed a new band, moving three months later to Bowmanville, near Toronto. In late summer 1986 Mary Bailey arranged for Twain to meet John Kim Bell, a half Mohawk, half American conductor who had close contacts with the directors of the Canadian Country Music Association. Bell recognized Twain's ability as well as her looks and the two began secretly dating.[18] In the fall of 1986 Twain continued to express her desire to be a pop or rock singer rather than country, which led to her falling out with Mary Bailey for two years. Twain's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Her performance received little acclaim, but it convinced Bell, who hated pop music, that Twain should stay well away from it and concentrate on country music.[19]
On November 1, 1987, Twain's mother and stepfather died in a car accident approximately 50 kilometres north of Wawa, Ontario.[20] As a result Twain moved back to Timmins to take care of her younger siblings and then took them all to Huntsville, Ontario. There, she supported them by earning money performing at the nearby Deerhurst Resort.[21]
[edit] 1993–1994: Shania Twain
A couple of years passed and Twain's siblings got older and moved out on their own. Twain assembled a demo tape of her songs and her Huntsville manager set up a showcase for Twain to present her material to record executives. She caught the attention of a few labels, including Mercury Nashville Records, who signed her within a few months.[22] During this time, she changed her name to Shania, which was said to be an Ojibwa word which means "on my way". However, Twain's biographer, Robin Eggar, writes: "There is a continuing confusion about what 'Shania' means and if indeed it is an Ojibwe word or phrase at all. [...] There is no mispronounced or misheard phrase in either Ojibwe or Cree that comes close to meaning 'on my way.' Yet the legend of her name continues to be repeated in the media to this day and will doubtless provide the obituary headline when Shania eventually passes on."[23]
Twain's self-titled debut album was released in 1993 in North America and garnered her audiences outside of Canada. The album only reached No.67 on the US Country Albums Chart, but it gained positive reviews from critics.[24] The album failed to sell significant copies initially, although Twain's future success generated enough interest for the album to be certified platinum six years later by the RIAA, denoting sales of over a million. The album yielded two minor hit singles in the United States with "What Made You Say That" and "Dance with the One That Brought You". The album was more successful in Europe, where Twain won Country Music Television Europe's "Rising Video Star of the Year" award.[22]
[edit] 1995–1996: The Woman in Me and her breakthrough
When rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange heard Twain's original songs and singing from her debut album, he offered to produce and write songs with her. After many telephone conversations, they met at Nashville's Fan Fair in June 1993. Twain and Lange became very close within just weeks. Lange and Twain either wrote or co-wrote the songs that would form her second studio album, The Woman in Me.[22][25] Record executives were stunned when they listened to the album. It was unlike anything else in country music.[26]
The Woman in Me was released in the spring of 1995. The album's first single, "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" went to No.11 on the Billboard Country Chart. This was followed by her first Top 10 and No.1 hit single, "Any Man of Mine". Twain had further hits from the album, including the title track which peaked at No.14 and three additional No.1 hits: "(If You're Not in it for Love) I'm Outta Here!", "You Win My Love", and "No One Needs to Know".[22] As of 2007, it had sold more than 12 million copies.[27] The album was a quick breakthrough and because of this Twain performed selected international venues and television shows including two CMA Fan Fair performances with Nashville guitarists Randy Thomas (co-writer of the song "Butterfly Kisses"), Dan Schafer,[28] Chris Rodriguez, Russ Taff, Hugh McDonald bass player of Bon Jovi, Dave Malachowski and Stanley T., formerly with The Beach Boys.
Mercury Nashville's promotion of the album was based largely upon a series of music videos.[29] During this period, Twain made major television appearances on shows such as two performances on Late Show with David Letterman, Blockbuster Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards and the American Music Awards. The Woman in Me won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year; the latter group also awarded Twain as Best New Female Vocalist.
[edit] 1997–2001: Come On Over
In 1997, Twain released her follow-up album, Come On Over. This was the album that would establish her as a successful crossover singer. Slowly, the album started racking up sales. It never hit the top spot, but with the multi-chart hit single "You're Still the One", sales skyrocketed. Other songs like "Don't Be Stupid", "You've Got A Way", "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", "That Don't Impress Me Much" and "From This Moment On" joined the 12 songs that eventually saw release as singles. "From This Moment On" is a duet with singer Bryan White and there was a pop version as well.
The album stayed on the charts for the next two years, going on to sell 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling album of all time by a female musician.[30] It is also the eighth biggest-selling album by any type of artist in the US[27] and the top selling country album in history. Songs from the album won four Grammy Awards during this time, including Best Country Song and Best Female Country Performance (for "You're Still the One" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!") for Twain. Lange won Grammys for "You're Still the One" and "Come on Over".
Despite the album's record sales it wasn't able to top the Billboard 200, peaking at #2. In 1999, the Come on Over album was remixed for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her producer husband (Robert John "Mutt" Lange) were looking for. Come on Over went to number 1 on the UK album charts for 11 weeks. It became the biggest selling album of the year in Great Britain and a bestseller in other big European markets as well, selling more than one million copies in Germany and nearly 4 million in the UK alone. The songs that had finally drawn European attention to the album were the pop remixed singles "That Don't Impress Me Much", a No.3 in the UK and Top 10 hit in Germany in the summer of 1999, and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" which peaked at No.3 in both the UK and France in autumn of that year. Additionally, the album set the record for the longest ever stay in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200, remaining in the Top 20 for 99 weeks.
Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.
In 1998, Twain launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen. The Come on Over Tour shows was a success and won the "Country Tour of the Year" in 1998 and 1999 by Pollstar Concert Industry Awards.[31]
In 2000, Twain was initially scheduled to release a Christmas album, but plans to release one were cancelled later in the year.[32]
Following the success of Come On Over, independent label Limelight Records released The Complete Limelight Sessions in October 2001. The album includes 16 tracks recorded in the late 1980s before Twain signed her record deal with Mercury.
[edit] 2002–2004: Up!
After a change in management – QPrime replaced Landau — and a two year break, Twain and Lange returned to the studio. Up! was released on November 19, 2002. About a year later, Twain kicked off the Up! Tour in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 25, 2003.
Up! was released with three different discs – country/acoustic (green CD), pop/rock (red CD), and world/dance (blue CD). Up! was given four out of five stars by Rolling Stone magazine, and debuted at No.1 on the Billboard albums chart, selling 874,000 in the first week alone. It remained at the top of the charts for five weeks. Up! reached No.1 in Germany, No.2 in Australia and the Top Five in the UK and France. In Germany, Up! was certified 4x platinum and stayed in the Top 100 for one and a half years.
The international music disc was remixed with Indian-style orchestral and percussion parts recorded in Mumbai, India. The new versions were produced by Simon and Diamond Duggal, brothers from Birmingham, England. They were originally invited to contribute parts to the pop version of "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" which retained the Indian influence.[33]
Twain's popularity in UK was reflected by numerous appearances on the long-running music show Top of the Pops, performing singles from Come on Over from 1999. In 2002 an entire special show was dedicated to her on sister show TOTP2, in which Twain herself introduced some past performances of her greatest hits and new singles from Up!
The first single from the album, "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" became a top 10 country hit in the US, after debuting at No. 24 after only five days of airplay; but only made the Top 40 on the pop charts. It was a much bigger hit on the other side of the Atlantic, released in a pop version, the single hit No.4 in the UK. In Australia, Germany and France the song reached the Top 15 in each case. The follow-up single "Up!" reached the Top 15 in the US country charts but failed to reach the pop Top 40.
The second European single became the mid-tempo song "Ka-Ching!" (which was never released as a single in North America) with lyrics where Twain was criticizing unchecked consumerism. The song eventually became another smash hit in the important European markets, reaching No.1 in Germany and Austria and other European countries, the UK Top 10 and the Top 15 in France. The third single from the album would be the most successful in the US. The romantic ballad "Forever and For Always" was released as a single in April 2003 and peaked at No.4 on the country chart and No.1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and made as well the Billboard Top 20. Again success was even bigger on the other side of the Atlantic with "Forever and For Always" again reaching the Top 10 in both, the UK and Germany. Further singles were "She's Not Just a Pretty Face" a country Top 10 hit, while the last US single, "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing", made the Top 20 on both Country and AC.
Due to the enormous European success of Up! and its first three singles, two more singles were released in the second half of 2003 with up-tempo "Thank You Baby" (#11 in the UK, Top 20 in Germany) and just before Christmas the romantic, acoustic ballad "When You Kiss Me", at least a minor hit in both territories. The title track "Up!" also saw a single release in a limited edition of European countries, such as Germany, in early 2004. In January 2008, Up! had sold 5.5 million copies in the U.S. and was certified by the RIAA as 11x platinum (the organization counts double albums as two units).[27]
In 2003, Twain participated in the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman, covering Parton's classic "Coat of Many Colors", with backing vocals by Alison Krauss. The cover peaked at No.57 on the Hot Country Songs charts as an album cut. During the Super Bowl XXXVII halftime show Twain performed two songs, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and "Up!"
[edit] 2004–2005: Greatest Hits
In 2004, she released the Greatest Hits album, with three new tracks. As of 2008, it has sold over four million copies in the U.S.[27] The first single, the multi-format duet "Party for Two", made the country top ten with Billy Currington, while the pop version with Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath made top ten in the United Kingdom and Germany. The follow-up singles, "Don't!" and "I Ain't No Quitter" did not fare as well. The former made Top 20 on Adult Contemporary, while the latter did not gain enough airplay to crack the Country Top 40.[34]
In August 2005, she released the single "Shoes" from the Desperate Housewives soundtrack.
2006-2010: New album delays and other projects[link]
At the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 16, 2007, Twain said she was currently writing songs for a new album, and was doing a "lot of soul searching" and "indulging in the writing."
Twain joined Canadian singer Anne Murray on the song "You Needed Me" on Murray's Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends album released November 13, 2007 in Canada, and on January 15, 2008 in the U.S.[35] On November 12, 2008 Twain made her first television appearance since her split from ex-husband Robert "Mutt" Lange, where she appeared as a surprise presenter at the 42nd CMA Awards.[36]
In early January 2009, Internet forums were reporting that Twain was planning to make an announcement regarding her new album on January 26, 2009 but on the 22nd a spokesperson from Mercury Nashville told Country Weekly that no new album would be coming "anytime soon".
In June 2009, Twain released a letter to her fans explaining the delays in the release of her next album.[37] In August 2009, at a conference in Timmins, Ontario, a spokesman for Twain's label said a new record from the singer is still "nowhere in sight".[38] On August 17, 2009, EW announced that Twain would be a guest judge on American Idol in Chicago, for the show's August 30 and 31 episodes.[39] On January 1, 2010, Twain carried the Olympic Torch through her hometown as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay.[40]
[edit] 2010-present: Why Not? with Shania Twain and return to music
In April 2010, Twain announced plans for her own TV show, entitled Why Not? with Shania Twain. The show debuted on May 8, 2011 on OWN.[41] Twain returned to American Idol as a guest mentor for a week where the top 6 contestants showcased her songs.[42] After the conclusion of the ninth season Twain was very close to becoming a judge but ultimately it was Jennifer Lopez who got the job.[43]
More recently, in September 2010, it was confirmed that Twain was to release her first biography, From This Moment On, on May 3, 2011,[44] and the cover work for the book was released on March 2, 2011.[45]
On March 27, 2011, Twain was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Following her appearance, she revealed that she is writing music and that new music will be heard soon.[46]
In May 2011, Twain confirmed in an interview with Perez Hilton that she will release her first new single in six years, "Today Is Your Day", after the finale of Why Not? with Shania Twain.[47] Twain previewed the song in the first episode of the series.[47] Twain worked with music producers David Foster and Nathan Chapman on the new song.[48] In the next few months, Twain plans to return to the studio to finish her fifth studio album.[49] "Today Is Your Day" was officially released to iTunes and country radio on June 12, 2011.[50]
On June 8, 2011, at a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Twain announced that she will headline Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for two years.[50] Her show, titled Still the One, will begin on December 1, 2012.[50]
In July 2011, fellow Canadian superstar Michael Bublé confirmed in a live video chat with fans that he recorded a duet of 'White Christmas' with Twain for his 2011 Christmas album.[51]
On February 7, 2012, Lionel Richie's single "Endless Love" featuring Shania Twain was released to digital retailers. The single is the first single from Lionel's "Tuskegee" album released on March 27, 2012. "Endless Love" has been released to radio on the adult contemporary charts. A music video, directed by Paul Boyd, was released to country music channels CMT and GAC in March 2012.
Endorsements and other ventures[link]
Twain's commercial ventures outside the music industry included a series of cosmetic ads in 1999 based on "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" for Revlon. She also starred in ads for Candie's shoes and Gitano jeans, who also sponsored her 1998–1999 Come On Over Tour.
In January 2005, Twain joined Scentstories by Febreze to create a limited edition scent disc with the proceeds going to America's Second Harvest.[52]
Late in 2005, Twain partnered COTY to produce her namesake fragrance "Shania" by Stetson. A second fragrance was released in September 2007, called "Shania Starlight".[53]
Personal life[link]
Twain married music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange on December 28, 1993, and they have a son, Eja (pronounced "Asia") D'Angelo, who was born on August 12, 2001.[54] On May 15, 2008, a spokesperson for Mercury Nashville announced that Twain and Lange were separating after Lange allegedly had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud.[55][56] Their divorce was finalized on June 9, 2010.[57] On December 20, 2010, Twain's manager confirmed that Twain was engaged to Swiss Frédéric Thiébaud (the ex-husband of her former best friend), an executive at Nestlé.[58][59] They married on January 1, 2011 in Rincón, Puerto Rico.[60]
Twain is a long-time vegetarian[61] and in 2001, was voted PETA's very first Sexiest Vegetarian Alive.[62]
Awards and honours[link]
Main article: List of Shania Twain awards
In addition to her various awards for her singles and albums, Twain has received a number of personal honours:
- She was named the 1999 Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association; Twain was the first non-US citizen to win the CMA award.
- Twain was ranked No.7 in Country Music Television's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002.[63]
- In 2003, Twain was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.[64]
- The city of Timmins (located in Ontario, Canada) renamed a street for her, gave her the key to the city, and built the Shania Twain Centre in her honour.[65]
- On November 18, 2005, Twain was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada.[66][67]
- Twain was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Juno Awards on March 27, 2011.[citation needed]
- On June 2, 2011, Twain received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her star is the 2,442nd Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Category of Recording.[64]
Discography[link]
Main article: Shania Twain discography
- Albums
- 1993: Shania Twain
- 1995: The Woman in Me
- 1997: Come On Over
- 2002: Up!
- Compilations
- 2001: The Complete Limelight Sessions
- 2004: Greatest Hits
See also[link]
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Further reading[link]
- Twain, Shania (2011), From This Moment On, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 1-4516-2074-8, http://books.google.com/?id=3jtDzg9xHpwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Shania+Twain#v=onepage&q&f=true
- Eggar, Robin (2005), Shania Twain:The Biography, New York City: Country Music Television Inc., Pocket Books, ISBN 0-7434-9735-X, http://books.google.ca/books?id=Sh-levpCt-IC&lpg=PP1&dq=Shania%20Twain%3AThe%20Biography&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true
- Hager, Barbara (1996), On Her Way: The Life and Music of Shania Twain, Toronto: Raincoast Books, ISBN 0-425-16451-9, http://books.google.ca/books?id=EDP-b9YSET0C&lpg=PA1&dq=Shania%20Twain&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=true
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| Birth name | Waylon Arnold Jennings |
| Born | (1937-06-15)June 15, 1937 Littlefield, Texas, United States |
| Died | February 13, 2002(2002-02-13) (aged 64) Chandler, Arizona, United States |
| Genres | Country, outlaw country, country rock, progressive country |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, mandolin |
| Years active | 1958–2002 |
| Labels | RCA Victor, MCA, Epic |
| Associated acts | Jessi Colter, Willie Nelson, The Highwaymen, Buddy Holly |
| Website | www.waylonjennings.com |
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Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced /welən dʒɛnɪŋz/; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at twelve on KVOW radio. He formed a band, The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI and KLLL. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings' first recording session, of "Jolie Blon" and "When Sin Stops (Love Begins)". Holly hired him to play bass. During the Winter Dance Party Tour, in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane to arrive to the next venue. Jennings gave up his seat in the plane to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold. The flight that carried Holly, Richardson and Ritchie Valens crashed, on the day later known as The Day the Music Died. Following the accident, Jennings worked as a D.J in Coolidge, Arizona and Phoenix. He formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors. He recorded for independent label Trend Records, A&M Records before succeeding with RCA Victor after achieving creative control of his records.
During the 1970s, Jennings joined the Outlaw movement. He released critically acclaimed albums Lonesome, On'ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes, followed by hit albums Dreaming My Dreams and Are You Ready for the Country. In 1976 he released the album Wanted! The Outlaws with Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessie Colter, the first platinum country music album. The success of the album was followed by Ol' Waylon, and the hit song "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)". By the early 1980s, Jennings was struggling with a cocaine addiction, which he quit in 1984. Later he joined the country supergroup The Highwaymen with Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash. During that period, Jennings released the successful album, Will the Wolf Survive. He toured less after 1997, to spend more time with his family. Between 1999 and 2001, his appearances were limited by health problems. On February 13, 2002, Jennings died from complications of diabetes.
Jennings also appeared in movies and television series. He was the narrator for The Dukes of Hazzard. In 2001 he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, which he chose not to attend until later on. In 2007 he was posthumously awarded the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music.
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Early life[link]
Waylon Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas, the seat of Lamb County, the son of Lorene Beatrice (née Shipley) and William Albert Jennings.[1] His original birth name was Wayland, meaning land by the highway, but it was changed after a Baptist preacher visited Jennings' parents and congratulated his mother for naming him after the Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. Lorene Jennings, who had been unaware of the college, changed the spelling to Waylon. Jennings later expressed in his autobiography "I didn't like Waylon. It sounded corny and hillbilly, but it's been good to me, and I'm pretty well at peace with it right now."[2] When Jennings was eight, his mother taught him to play guitar with the tune "Thirty Pieces of Silver". Jennings used to practice with the guitars of his relatives, until his mother bought him a used Stella, and later ordered a Harmony Patrician.[3] Jennings never learned to read music, but he practiced to seek a career in music and avoid a possible future picking cotton and other temporary jobs.[4][5]
Music career[link]
Beginnings in music[link]
The twelve-year-old Jennings auditioned for a spot on KVOW in Littlefield, Texas. Owner J.B. McShan, along with Emil Macha, recorded Jennings' performance. McShan liked his style, and hired him for a weekly thirty-minute program. Following this successful introduction, Jennings formed his own band. He asked Macha to play bass for him, and gathered other friends and acquaintances to form The Texas Longhorns. The style of the band, a mixture of country & western and bluegrass, often was not well received. At seventeen, Jennings and band recorded a demo of the songs "Stranger in My Home" and "There'll Be a New Day" at KFYO radio in Lubbock, Texas.[6] In addition to performing on air for KVOW, Jennings later worked as a D.J for the station.[7] Jennings dropped out of high school in tenth grade to pursue music. His early influences were Bob Wills, Floyd Tillman, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Carl Smith and Elvis Presley.[8][9][10][11] He moved to Lubbock, where he initially worked for KDAV, and later for KLLL, Jennings' show was successful in both venues.[7]
While working in KDAV, Jennings met Buddy Holly, during the broadcasts of Sunday Party. Holly, who wanted to start in record production, arranged a session for Jennings. On September 10, Jennings recorded the songs "Jolie Blon" and "When Sin Stops (Love Begins)", with Holly and Tommy Allsup on guitars with saxophonist King Curtis. The single was released on Brunswick in 1959 with limited success. Holly then hired Jennings to play electric bass for him during his "Winter Dance Party Tour".[7]
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After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to avoid a long bus trip to Fargo, North Dakota. Allsup lost a coin toss to Ritchie Valens for his seat on the plane, while Jennings gave up his seat to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold and complaining about how uncomfortable a long bus trip was for a man of his size.[12] Holly jokingly told Jennings, "I hope your ol' bus freezes up!". Jennings replied, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes!" During the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, later known as The Day the Music Died, the charter crashed outside Clear Lake, killing all on board.[13] Jennings and Allsup continued the tour for two more weeks, featuring Jennings as the lead singer.[7] Jennings later admitted that he felt severe guilt and responsibility for the crash, and that his words would haunt him for the rest of his life.[13]
He later returned to KLLL and performed regionally.[8] He released recordings under Trend Records, and experienced moderate success with his single "Another Blue Day".[14]
Phoenix and the Nashville Sound[link]
In 1961, Jennings lived briefly in Coolidge, Arizona working in radio, before moving to Phoenix, where he formed a rockabilly band, The Waylors. Jennings and his band performed at a newly opened nightspot called JD's. The band earned a small fan base, eventually signing with the independent label Trend Records. The recordings were not successful and Jennings began working as a record producer. In 1963, he moved to Los Angeles, California where he signed a contract with Herb Alpert of A&M Records.[14][15]
His records had little success, because A&M's main releases were folk music rather than country.[16] He had a few hits on local radio in Phoenix, including Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds" and "Just To Satisfy You" (co-written with Don Bowman). He also recorded an album on BAT called JD's. After 500 copies were sold at the club, another 500 copies were pressed by the Sounds label.[17] He also played lead guitar for Patsy Montana on a 1964 album.[18] Alpert tried to shift Jennings' style from country to pop, but Jennings refused. After his only single, "Sing the Girl a Song, Bill", Alpert released Jennings.[15]
Singer Bobby Bare, who covered Jennings' songs "Four Strong Winds" and "Just To Satisfy You", recommended Jennings to producer Chet Atkins, who signed Jennings to RCA Victor in 1965.[16]
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In 1966, Jennings released his debut album for RCA Folk-Country, followed by Leavin' Town, and Nashville Rebel.[19][20] Nashville rebel was the soundtrack to an independent film of the same name, starring Jennings.[21] In 1967, Jennings released a hit single, "Just to Satisfy You". During an interview, Jennings remarked that the song was a "pretty good example" of the influence of his work with Buddy Holly and rockabilly music.[22] During the next years, Jennings produced mid-chart albums that sold well, including Just to Satisfy You, that included the same-named hit single of 1967.[19]
In 1972, Jennings released Ladies Love Outlaws. The single that headlined the album became a hit for Jennings, and was his first approach to Outlaw Country.[23] Jennings was accustomed to performing and recording with his own band, The Waylors; a practice that was not encouraged by powerful Nashville producers. Over time, however, Jennings felt limited by the Nashville sound's lack of artistic freedom.[24] The music style publicized as "Countrypolitan" was characterized by orchestral arrangements, and the absence of traditional country music instruments. The producers did not let Jennings play his own guitar, or select material to record.[14]
Outlaw Country[link]
In an interview Jennings recalled the restrictions of the Nashville establishment, "They wouldn't let you do anything. You had to dress a certain way: you had to do everything a certain way [...] They kept trying to destroy me.... I just went about my business and did things my way [...] You start messing with my music, I get mean"[25] In 1972, his recording contract was nearing an end. Hepatitis-afflicted Jennings accepted an offer from Neil Reshen to renegotiate his recording and touring contracts. At a meeting in a Nashville airport, Jennings introduced Reshen to Willie Nelson. By the end of the meeting, Reshen had become manager to both singers. Jennings' new deal gained him a $75,000 advance and artistic control.[26][27] Reshen advised Jennings to keep the beard that he had grown in the hospital, in order to match the image of outlaw country.[28][29][30]
By 1973, Nelson had returned to music, finding success with Atlantic Records. Now based in Austin, Texas, Nelson had made inroads into the rock and roll press by attracting a diverse fan base that included the rock music audience.[31][32] Atlantic Records was now attempting to sign Jennings, but Nelson's rise to popularity persuaded RCA to renegotiate with Jennings before losing another potential success.[33]
He followed with Lonesome, On'ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes in 1973, the first albums recorded and released under his creative control. The albums were commercial and critical successes. More hit albums followed, with The Ramblin' Man and This Time, in 1974, and Dreaming My Dreams, in 1975.[34][35] In 1976, Jennings released Are You Ready for the Country, Jennings wanted the record to be produced by Los Angeles producer Ken Mansfield. Although RCA denied the request, Jennings and The Waylors went to Los Angeles and recorded with Mansfield at his expense. After a month, Jennings presented the master tape to Chet Atkins who decided to release it. The album hit number one on Billboard's country albums three times the same year, topping the charts for ten weeks. It was named country album of the year in 1976 by Record World Magazine and it was certified gold by the RIAA.[36]
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In 1976 Jennings released the album Wanted! The Outlaws, recorded with Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessie Colter for RCA. The album was the first country music album certified platinum.[14] The following year, RCA issued Ol' Waylon, an album that produced a hit duet with Nelson, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)."[37] The album Waylon and Willie followed in 1978, producing the hit single, "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".[38] Jennings released I've Always Been Crazy, also in 1978.[39] The same year, at the peak of his success, Jennings began to feel limited by the outlaw movement. The "outlaw image" restricted the repertoire he could record, as well as the material that audiences expected from him.[40] Jennings referred to the over-exploitation of the image in the song "Don't You Think This Outlaw Has Gone a Bit Out of Hand?", denouncing that the movement had become a "self-fulfilling prophecy".[40][41] In 1979 he released Greatest Hits,[39] which was certified gold the same year, and in 2002 was certified quintuple platinum.[42]
Later years[link]
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In the mid-1980s, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Nelson and Jennings formed a successful group called The Highwaymen.[43] Aside from his work with The Highwaymen, Jennings' released a gold album WWII (1982) with Willie Nelson.[38]
In 1985 Jennings joined with USA for Africa to record "We Are the World", but he left the studio due to a dispute over the song's lyrics that were sung in Swahili.[44][45] By this time, his sales decreased. After the release of Sweet Mother Texas, Jennings signed with Music Corporation of America.[15] The debut release with the label, Will the Wolf Survive (1985), peaked at number one in Billboard's Country albums in 1986.[46] Jennings' initial success tailed off, and in 1990, he signed with Epic Records. His first release, The Eagle, became his final top ten album.[15][47] In 1993, in collaboration with Rincom Children's Entertainment, Jennings recorded an album of children's songs, Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals & Dirt, which included "Shooter's Theme", a tribute to his 14-year-old with the theme of "a friend of mine".[48]
Despite low record sales, Jennings attracted large audiences in live appearances.[15] In 1997, after the Lollapalooza tour, he decreased his tour schedule and became centered on his family.[49]
In 1998, Jennings teamed up with Bare, Jerry Reed and Mel Tillis to form The Old Dogs. The group recorded a double album of songs penned entirely by Shel Silverstein.[50] In mid 1999, Jennings assembled what he referred to as his "hand-picked dream team" – and formed Waylon & The Waymore Blues Band. Consisting primarily of former Waylors, the thirteen-member group performed a limited number of concerts from 1999 to 2001.[51] In January 2000, Jennings recorded what would become his final album at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium, Never Say Die: Live.[52]
Music style and image[link]
Jennings was characterized by his "powerful" singing voice, noted by his "rough-edged quality", as well as his phrasing and texture.[53][54] Accompanying his vocals, he played guitar. He was recognized for his "spanky-twang" playing. To create his sound, he used a mixture of thumb and fingers during the rhythmic parts, while using picks for the lead runs. He combined hammer-on and pull-off riffs, with eventual upper-fret double stops and modulation effects.[55] Jennings played a 1953 Fender Telecaster, which was purchased used by The Waylors. Jennings' bandmates adorned his guitar with a distinctive leather cover, that featured a black background with a white floral work.[56][57] Jennings did further customizing work on the guitar, by filing down the frets to lower the strings on the neck to obtain the slapping sound.[58][59] His signature image was characterized by his long hair and beard, as well as his black hat and the black leather vest he wore during his appareances.[60][61]
Movies and television[link]
In 1966, Jennings starred in the movie Nashville Rebel, an independent production shot in Nashville. Jennings portrayed Alvin Grove, a local singer on his way to stardom.[21] Jennings next appeared in the movies All American Cowboy, and The Oklahoma City Dolls.[62] Outside the music industry, Jennings was known as the primary voice of the narrator/balladeer on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and its predecessor, the 1975 film, Moonrunners.[63] The theme song, "Good Ol' Boys", an original Jennings composition, became one of the most well-known television theme songs in American television history.[64] In 1986 he appeared in the movie Stagecoach, portraying Hatfield, alongside Cash, Nelson and Kristofferson.[65]
Jennings made an appearance on Xuxa, Married... with Children,[66] and played a truck driver in the 1985 film, Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird. Jennings sang "Ain't No Road Too Long" in the movie with Big Bird and the other Sesame Street characters.[67] In 2000, he provided the voice of Judge Thatcher in the animated adaptation of Tom Sawyer.[68] In an episode of The Angry Beavers entitled The Legend of Kid Friendly that aired in April 1999, Jennings provided the voice for the narrator/singer.[69] In 2001, Jennings voiced a character in an episode of Family Guy for a Dukes of Hazzard parody (his last televised appearance). The episode was entitled "To Love and Die in Dixie". The episode originally aired that November. He also narrated a watch fight in an earlier episode, "Chitty Chitty Death Bang".[69]
Personal life[link]
Jennings was married four times, and had six children. He was first married to Maxine Caroll Lawrence in 1956 at age 18, with whom he had four children Terry Vance Jennings (born January 21, 1957), Julie Rae Jennings (born August 12, 1958), Buddy Dean Jennings (born March 21, 1960), and Deana Jennings.[70] Jennings married again on December 10, 1962 to Lynne Jones, adopting a child Tomi Lynne. They divorced in 1967.[71] He next married Barbara Rood. He composed the song "This Time" about the trials and tribulations of his marriages and divorces.[72] He married for the fourth and final time in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 26, 1969 to Jessi Colter.[73][74] Colter and Jennings had one son, Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings (born May 19, 1979). Colter had one daughter, Jennifer, from her previous marriage.[75] Jennings' grandson, William "Struggle" Harness, became a rap/hip hop artist, based out of Nashville.[76]
In 1997, he stopped touring to be close to his family. To set an example about the importance of education to his son Waylon Albright, Jennings earned a GED.[67][77]
Addiction and recovery[link]
Jennings started to consume amphetamines at the time he lived with Johnny Cash during the mid-1960s. Jennings later stated, "Pills were the artificial energy on which Nashville ran around the clock".[8] In 1977, Jennings was arrested by federal agents for conspiracy and 'possession of cocaine with intent to distribute'. A private courier warned the Drug Enforcement Administration about the package sent to Jennings by a New York colleague that contained twenty-seven grams of cocaine. The DEA and the police went to Jennings' recording studio. They found no evidence, because while they were waiting for a search warrant, Jennings flushed the cocaine. The charges were later dropped and Jennings was released.[78] The episode was recounted in Jennings' song "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Outta Hand?"[79]
During the early 1980s, his cocaine addiction intensified. Jennings claimed to have spent US$1500 daily to satisfy his addiction, draining his personal finances and leaving him bankrupt with debt of up to US$2.5 million.[74] Though he insisted on repaying the debt and did additional tours to earn the funds, his work became less focused and his tours deteriorated.[79] Jennings decided to quit his addictions, leased a home in the Phoenix, Arizona area and spent a month detoxing himself, intending to start using cocaine again in a more controlled fashion afterward. In 1984 he quit cocaine. By Jennings' own admission in interviews, his son, Shooter Jennings, was the main inspiration to quit permanently.[80]
Illness and death[link]
Jennings' health had been bad for years prior to his death. Jennings quit cocaine, and his habit of smoking six packs of cigarettes daily. In 1988 he underwent heart bypass surgery.[74] By 2000 his diabetes worsened, and the pain reduced his mobility, forcing Jennings to end most touring.[67] Later the same year he went under surgery to improve his leg circulation.[8] In December 2001 his left foot was amputated at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. On February 13, 2002, Jennings died in his sleep of diabetic complications in Chandler, Arizona. Jennings was buried in the Mesa City Cemetery, in Mesa, Arizona. At the funeral ceremony, on February 15, Colter sang "Storms Never Last" for the attendees, who included Jennings' close friends and fellow musicians.[67][74]
Legacy[link]
Between 1966 and 1995, 54 Jennings' albums charted, with 11 reaching number one. Meanwhile between 1965 and 1991, 96 singles charted, with 16 number ones.[81] In October 2001, Jennings was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In one final act of defiance, he did not attend the ceremony and opted instead to send son Buddy Dean Jennings.[67] On July 6, 2006, Jennings was inducted to Hollywood's Rock Wall in Hollywood, California.[82] On June 20, 2007, Jennings was posthumously awarded the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music.[83]
Discography[link]
Main article: Waylon Jennings discography
Awards[link]
| Year | Award | Organization |
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| 1970 | Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal w/ The Kimberlys for "MacArthur Park" | Grammy Awards |
| 1975 | Male Vocalist of the Year | Country Music Association |
| 1976 | Album of the Year w/ Jessi Colter, Willie Nelson & Tompall Glaser for "Wanted! The Outlaws" | Country Music Association |
| 1976 | Vocal Duo of the Year w/ Willie Nelson | Country Music Association |
| 1976 | Single of the Year w/ Willie Nelson for "Good-Hearted Woman" | Country Music Association |
| 1979 | Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal w/ Willie Nelson for "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" | Grammy Awards |
| 1985 | Single of the Year w/ the other members of The Highwaymen for "Highwayman" | Academy of Country Music |
| 2001 | Country Music Hall of Fame induction | Country Music Hall of Fame |
| 2003 | CMT Greatest Men of Country Music, Rank #5 | CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music |
| 2006 | Hollywood's RockWall induction | Hollywood's RockWall |
| 2007 | Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award | Academy of Country Music |
| 2007 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Nashville Songwriters' Festival |
See also[link]
- Outlaw country
- Academy of Country Music
- List of country musicians
- Country Music Association
- List of best-selling music artists
- Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
References[link]
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- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 22.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 8.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 33.
- ^ Carr & Munde 1997, p. 154.
- ^ a b c d Carr & Munde 1997, p. 155.
- ^ a b c d Dansby, Andrew (February 14, 2002). "Waylon Jennings Dead at Sixty-four". Rolling Stone (Wenner Media LLC). http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/waylon-jennings-dead-at-sixty-four-20020214. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
- ^ Wishart 2004, p. 540.
- ^ Jennings, Waylon; Kaye, Lenny 1999, p. 271.
- ^ Jennings, Waylon; Kaye, Lenny 1999, p. 34.
- ^ Texas Monthly, January 1988; p.108
- ^ a b VH1's Behind the Music "The Day the Music Died" interview with Waylon Jennings
- ^ a b c d Carr & Munde 1997, p. 156.
- ^ a b c d e Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Waylon Jennings - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://allmusic.com/artist/waylon-jennings-p1663/biography.
- ^ a b Wolff & Duane 2000, p. 360.
- ^ Country Music Foundation; p.53
- ^ Bluegrass Unlimited; p.44
- ^ a b Cramer, Alfred 2009, p. 715.
- ^ Thompson, Clifford 2002, p. 622.
- ^ a b The Southern Quarterly; p.118
- ^ Country Song Roundup, issue 102
- ^ Larkin 1995, p. 3005.
- ^ Petrusich 2008, p. 105.
- ^ Ashby, LeRoy; p.418
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, pp. 187-192.
- ^ Petrusich 2008, p. 106.
- ^ Larkin 1995, p. 2159.
- ^ Lewis 1993.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 266.
- ^ Reid, Jan; Sahm, Shawn; p. 79
- ^ Reid, Jan; p. 224
- ^ Petrusich 2008, p. 106.
- ^ Wolff & Duane 2000, p. 340.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Ramblin' Man - Overview". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-ramblin-man-r107198/review. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ Mansfield, Ken; p.171, 172
- ^ Huang, Hao; p.325
- ^ a b Wishart 2004, p. 54.
- ^ a b Kingsbury2004, p. 612.
- ^ a b lewis, p. 169.
- ^ Schäfer, p. 60.
- ^ "RIAA Searchable Database". RIAA.com. The Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Waylon%20Jennings&sort=Artist&perPage=25. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ^ Seal 2011, p. 141 View page
- ^ Breskin 2004, p. 6.
- ^ Cagle, Jess (January 24, 1992). "They Were the World". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,309280,00.html. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
- ^ "Will the Wolf Survie?". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://allmusic.com/album/will-the-wolf-survive-r92722/charts-awards. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ Clarke 1998, p. 648.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 370.
- ^ Birk, Carl; p.71
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Old Dogs". Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p352588. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ George-Warren, Romanowski & Pareles 2001, p. 492.
- ^ D'Angelo, Joe (February 13, 2002). "Country Music Outlaw Waylon Jennings Dies At 64". MTV News (MTV Networks). http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1452290/country-legend-waylon-jennings-dies-at-64.jhtml. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ Brown 1986, p. 132.
- ^ Ward 2012, p. 308.
- ^ Hunter, p. 124.
- ^ Hunter, p. 125.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 105.
- ^ "Waylon Jennings guitar". Country Guitar (Country Guitar Magazine). February 1995.
- ^ "Interview: Waylon Jennings". Guitar player (Miller Freeman Publications) 7. 1973.
- ^ Valence, Ritchie (February 14, 2002). "Country great Waylon Jennings dies at 64". CNN (Turner Broadcasting System, Inc). http://articles.cnn.com/2002-02-14/entertainment/obit.waylon.jennings_1_country-music-first-country-album-winter-dance-party?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ.
- ^ de Rubio, Dave Gil (April 13th, 2012). "Willie Nelson: Live! At the US Festival 1983". American Songwriter (American Songwriter, LLC). http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/04/willie-nelson-live-at-the-us-festival-1983/.
- ^ Kaplan 1989, p. 407.
- ^ Jensen 2003, p. 18.
- ^ Oerman 1999, p. 272.
- ^ Parish & Pitts 2003, p. 140.
- ^ Pendergast & Pendergast 2000, p. 541.
- ^ a b c d e Birk, Carl; He appearalsoid=db7uwE2_lJ8C&lpg=PA72&dq=Cowboys%2C%20Sisters%2C%20Rascals%20and%20Dirt%20waylon%20jennings&pg=PA72#v=onepage&q&f=false p.72
- ^ Billboard, March 18, 2000; p.35
- ^ a b Ratiner 2009, p. 93.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, pp. 37-39.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 85, 100.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 101.
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 176.
- ^ a b c d Laufenberg, Norbert; p.798
- ^ Jennings & Kaye 1996, p. 235.
- ^ Raymer, Miles (November 4, 2011). "Today in Celebrity Spawn Rap Projects". Chicago Reader (CL Chicago, Inc). http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/11/04/today-in-celebrity-spawn-rap-projects. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ^ Kingsbury2004, p. 264.
- ^ Hart 2007, p. 184.
- ^ a b Jennings & Kaye 1996, pp. 322-325.
- ^ Weatherby, Gregg; p.46
- ^ Billboard, February 23, 2002; p.8
- ^ "Guitar Center's Hollywood Rock Wall". Rockwall.com. Guitar Center, Inc. http://www.rockwalk.com/inductees/inductee.cfm?id=168. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ "Pioneer Award". ACM Awards. Academy of Country Music. http://www.acmcountry.com/award/awardsSearch.php?queryStr=pioneer%20award. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
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Journals[link]
- Denberg, Jody (January 1988). "Chantilly Lace and Jolly Face". Texas Monthly 16 (1). ISSN 0148-7736.
- Jessen, Wade; Evans Price, Deborah; Stark, Phyllis (February 23, 2002). "Waylon Jennings Remembered as Country Music Legend". Billboard 114 (8). ISSN 0006-2510.
- Billboard 112 (12). March 18, 2000. ISSN 0006-2510.
- "Patsy Montana Early Country Favorites". Bluegrass Unlimited (Bluegrass Unlimited) 18 (1-6). 1983. ISSN 0006-5137.
- Country song roundup. Country Song Roundup. 1967. p. 15.
- The Journal of country music (The Country Music Foundation) 6 (3). Fall 1975.
- The Southern Quarterly (University of Southern Mississippi) 22. 1983. ISSN 0038-4496.
Further reading[link]
- Denisoff, R. Serge. Waylon: A Biography (1983). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-387-6.
- Smith, John L. (compiled by) The Waylon Jennings Discography (1995). Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29745-2.
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| Name | Jennings, Waylon Arnold |
| Alternative names | Hoss |
| Short description | Country music artist |
| Date of birth | June 15, 1937 |
| Place of birth | Littlefield, Texas, United States of America |
| Date of death | February 13, 2002 |
| Place of death | Chandler, Arizona, United States of America |
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This page is about the singer Julio Iglesias. For his father, see Julio Iglesias, Sr.. For his son, see Julio Iglesias, Jr.
This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Iglesias and the second or maternal family name is De la Cueva.
| Julio Iglesias | |
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 Julio Iglesias in November 2007. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva |
| Born | (1943-09-23) September 23, 1943 (age 68) Madrid, Spain |
| Genres | Latin American music, Latin, Latin pop, Dance and Classical |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Labels | Columbia Records and Sony Music Entertainment |
| Website | www.julioiglesias.com |
Julio Iglesias (born Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva; September 23, 1943) is a Spanish singer and songwriter whose romantic image, magnetic stage presence, and expressive music made him one of the best-selling artists of all time. By the early 21st century he had sold hundreds of millions of albums in more than a dozen languages.[1] He has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums.[2] According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best-selling music artists in history.[3] While Iglesias rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as a performer of romantic ballads, his success has continued on as he entered new musical endeavors.[4] He is the father of singer Enrique Iglesias.
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Early life[link]
Iglesias was born in Madrid, the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat. Iglesias' father's family was from Galicia, and Iglesias' mother an Andalusian.
In the 1960s, he studied law in Madrid and was a goalkeeper for one of Real Madrid's[5] football teams. On September 22, 1963, he was involved in a car crash, resulting in an injury to his spinal cord.[6] He said, "I had a car accident; [a] very, very strange car accident...I lost control of the car and rolled it, resulting in what they call 'paraparexia,' which is not paraplegia. It's a compression in the [spinal] cord, in the sense of the neck...my spinal cord; and I was very, very ill for three years." His doctors thought he would never walk again; indeed, his legs were left permanently weakened, and they continued to require therapy as of late October 2010. However, slowly, he began recovering his health. To develop and increase the dexterity of his hands, he began playing guitar.[6] When he recovered from his accident, he resumed academic studies and traveled to the United Kingdom to study the English language, first in Ramsgate, then at Bell Educational Trust's Language School in Cambridge.
In 1971, he married Spanish Filipino[7] journalist Isabel Preysler and had three children, Chabeli Iglesias, Julio Iglesias, Jr. and Enrique Iglesias. Their marriage was annulled in 1979. In 1981 his father, Julio Iglesias Puga, Sr, was kidnapped by Basque terrorists but found alive two weeks later, prompting Julio Iglesias to move his children to Miami, Florida.[8]
On August 24, 2010, Julio Iglesias and Miranda Rijnsburger got married after a 20-year relationship. The religious ceremony was celebrated in the Parish of the Virgen del Carmen of Marbella, and was followed by a Mass of thanksgiving in the chapel on the property the couple owns in the same city.[9] The couple has three sons and twin daughters: Miguel (born September 7, 1997), Rodrigo (born April 3, 1999), Victoria and Cristina (born May 1, 2001) and Guillermo (born May 5, 2007).[10] After Iglesias was 60 years old, his 89 year old father produced more children: half-brother Jaime born May 18, 2004; and half sister Ruth born July 26, 2006. Julio's half siblings were a product of Dr. Iglesias Puga's second marriage, to Ronna Keitt.[11]
Career[link]
In 1968, he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, a songwriter's event in Spain, with the song "La vida sigue igual" (meaning "Life Continues Just The Same") which was used in the film La vida sigue igual, about his own life. After his events he signed a deal with Discos Columbia, the Spanish branch of the Columbia Records company. He represented Spain in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, earning fourth place, after Northern Irish singer Dana and the Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. His entry was the song "Gwendolyne." Shortly after he had a number one hit in many European countries with "Un Canto A Galicia." That single sold 1 million copies in Germany. In 1975 he found success in the Italian market by recording a song exclusively in Italian called "Se mi lasci non vale" ("If You Leave Me, It Can't Be"). Notable albums from this decade are A Flor de Piel (1974, with the European hit "Manuela"), "El Amor" (1975), and "Soy" (1978). He also sang in French. One of his popular songs is "Je n'ai pas changé".
Following the annulment of his marriage to Preysler in 1979, he moved to Miami, Florida, in the United States and signed a deal with CBS International, and started singing in different languages such as English, French, Portuguese, German and other languages to his music. Iglesias released the album De Niña a Mujer (1981), dedicated to his daughter (that divided the cover photo with him), from it came the first English-language hit, a Spanish cover of "Begin the Beguine" which became number 1 in the United Kingdom, he also released a collection, Julio (1983). In 1984, he released 1100 Bel Air Place, the hit album which gave him publicity in the English-speaking entertainment industry. It sold four million albums in the United States, with the first single "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", a duet with Willie Nelson, earning a fifth place spot in the Billboard Hot 100; it also featured "All of You", with Diana Ross.
Julio Iglesias made a cameo appearance as himself on The Golden Girls as Sophia Petrillo's date on St. Valentine's Day. In 1984 he recorded the duets with Diana Ross and Willie Nelson previously mentioned. Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo (A Man Alone). He recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder on "My Love", in his Non Stop album, a crossover success in 1988. In the 1990s, Iglesias returned to his original Spanish melody in Tango (1996), nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards, losing to the Romances album by Mexican singer, Luis Miguel.[12] Also that year, his youngest son from his first marriage, Enrique Iglesias, also was nominated for the Vivir album.
Julio Iglesias went on to win the World Music Award for Tango in Monaco later that year where he was up against singer Luis Miguel and son Enrique for the second time. Julio performed two "Tangos" to the delight of the audience. In 1995, he appeared as a guest star in the videoclip of Thalía's song "Amandote"; she had starred in the video clip of Iglesias's hit "Baila Morena". Iglesias returned to the headlines in October 2003, when he went to Argentina and kissed show host Susana Giménez three times during a live telecast of her show.
In 2003, he released his album Divorcio (Divorce). In its first day of sales, Divorcio sold a record 350,000 albums in Spain, and reached the number 1 spot on the charts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Russia. In 2003 and 2004, he was featured on a ten month world tour; which took Iglesias, aided by the success his album Divorcio and toured from Europe and Asia to North America, South America and Africa. More than half the shows on the tour sold out within days of going on sale. In December 2004, his Dutch girlfriend Miranda Rijnsburger and Iglesias himself recorded a duet of the Christmas song "Silent Night". The song, which was not officially released, also included a voice message from Iglesias, Rijnsburger and their 4 young children. The song was released online through the singer's official website and a CD was included on their Christmas card as a holiday gift from the Iglesias family to their friends and fans around the world.
In 2008, Iglesias recorded another song as a gift to his fans. The family recorded "The Little Drummer Boy" in Spanish and English and included it in the family's Christmas card. Iglesias also made investments in the Dominican Republic's eastern town of Punta Cana, a major tourist destination, where he spends most of the year when he is not on tour. Iglesias's south Florida mansion on the exclusive private Indian Creek Island property was placed on the market in 2006 for a quoted $28 million, making it one of "Ten Most Expensive Homes in the South" in 2006 according to Forbes Magazine.[13]
In September 2006, a new English album titled Romantic Classics was released. "I've chosen songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s that I believe will come to be regarded as the new standards", Iglesias stated in the album's sleeve notes. The album features the hits "I Want to Know What Love Is", "Careless Whisper", and "Right Here Waiting". Romantic Classics was Iglesias's highest debut on the Billboard charts, entering at number 31 in the United States, 21 in Canada, 10 in Australia, and top spots across Europe and Asia. He returned to the studio to record songs in Filipino and Indonesian for his Asian releases of Romantic Classics which helped propel record sales in the Asian entertainment industry. Iglesias promoted Romantic Classics in 2006 and was seen all over the world on television shows. For example, in the United States, he appeared on Dancing With The Stars (where he sang his hit "I Want To Know What Love Is"), Good Morning America, The View, Fox and Friends, and Martha Stewart.
In 2008, Iglesias promoted his Romantic Classics album worldwide and in 2009-2010, he planned a world tour as a celebration of forty years in the music industry.[citation needed] After his house in Indian Creek did not sell he razed his house to the ground in 2008 and said he planned to build another.[14]
In 2010, Iglesias continued to travel around the world with his "Starry Night World Tour" to promote his 42 years of career. Julio Iglesias is currently learning Tunisian Sephardic cuisine for which he has developed an incredible passion, the Mloukhia being his best recipe. According to his close friend, Emilio Lopez, Julio is also learning Orthodox Judaism to become a rabbi in Los Angeles and teach French-speaking kids how to pray with a Latino twist.
Julio is frequently seen at the Tunisian restaurant in Paris called Douieb where he orders the Tunisian sandwich.
According to his official site, he has sold over 300 million albums worldwide as of 1 November 2010 (2010 -11-01)[update].
In March 2011, the artist launched a new studio album called Numero 1.
Iglesias' performance of the song La Mer ("The Sea") is featured in the soundtrack of the 2011 film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The performance comes from a live album, currently out-of-print, recorded live at the Olympia theater in Paris in 1976. At the beginning and the end of the recording, Iglesias introduces the song, and his backing musicians, in fluent French.
Discography[link]
Main article: Julio Iglesias discography
Studio, live, remastered and compilation main albums
- 2011: Numero 1
- 2010: The Essential: Julio Iglesias
- 2010: Original album classic
- 2010: Nathalie-The best of Julio Iglesias
- 2007: Quelque Chose De France
- 2006: Romantic Classics (US:#41)
- 2006: Remastered+Bonus Track
- 2006: Remastered (US:#81)
- 2005: L'homme Que Je Suis
- 2003: Divorcio
- 2001: Ao meu Brasil
- 2000: Noche De Cuatro Lunas
- 1996: Tango
- 1995: La Carretera
- 1994: Crazy (US:#30)
- 1992: Calor (US:#186)
- 1990: Starry Night (US:#37)
- 1989: Raíces
- 1988: Non Stop (US:#52)
- 1987: Un Hombre Solo
- 1987: Tutto l'amore che ti manca
- 1985: Libra (US.#92), (US Latin:#1)
- 1984: 1100 Bel Air Place (US:#6) [Singles: "All Of You" US:#19, US R&B:#38, "Moonlight Lady" Adult Contemporary #17, "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" US:#5, US Country:#1]
- 1983: En Concierto
- 1982: Momentos
- 1982: Momenti
- 1982: Et l'amour crea la femme
- 1981: De niña a mujer
- 1981: Fidèle
- 1981: Minhas canções preferidas
- 1981: Zartlichkeiten
- 1980: Hey!
- 1980: Amanti
- 1980: Sentimental
- 1979: A vous les femmes
- 1979: Innamorarsi alla mia eta
- 1979: Emociones
- 1978: Aimer La Vie
- 1978: As Vezes Tu, As Vezes Eu
- 1978: Da "Manuela" A "Pensami"
- 1978: "Quiero" Album (El Amor)
- 1977: A mis 33 años
- 1976: America
- 1976: Ein Weihnachtsabend Mit Julio Iglesias
- 1976: En El Olympia
- 1975: A Mexico
- 1975: El Amor
- 1974: A Flor de Piel
- 1974: Viens M'embrasser
- 1973: Soy
- 1972: Un Canto a Galicia
- 1972: Por una mujer
- 1969: Yo Canto
References[link]
- ^ belfasttelegraph.co.uk
- ^ julioiglesias.com
- ^ List of best-selling music artists
- ^ official web page, elmundo.es, europapress.es, El Universal
- ^ "The Iglesias dynasty:Two generations of hot Latin talent". www.hellomagazine.com. http://www.hellomagazine.com/specials/iglesiascomparison/comparison.html.
- ^ a b Iglesias, Julio. Reader's Digest. November 2006 issue. Article by Julio Iglesias, page??
- ^ "Preysler Family". www.geocities.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/preyslerphil/FamilyTree.pdf&date=2009-10-26+00:42:56.
- ^ Couzens, Gerard (20 December 2005). "Julio, the Daddy of them all, dies at 90". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-372204/Julio-Daddy-dies-90.html. Retrieved 08 April 2012.
- ^ "Spanish singer Julio Iglesias marries in secret". Yahoo! News. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_spain_people_julio_iglesias.
- ^ Nudd, Tim (May 7, 2007). "Julio Iglesias Welcomes a Baby Boy". People.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20038071,00.html. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ^ Couzens, Gerard (20 December 2005). "Julio, the Daddy of them all, dies at 90". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-372204/Julio-Daddy-dies-90.html. Retrieved 08 April 2012.
- ^ ""Latin Pop Performance" on Rockonthenet.com". http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/grammys.htm. Retrieved 1998-02-25.
- ^ Lacey Rose (June 12, 2006). "Home Improvements - Most Expensive Home In The U.S. 2006: South". www.forbes.com. http://www.forbes.com/realestate/2006/06/09/expensive-homes-south_cx_lr_0612home.html. Retrieved June 12, 2006.
- ^ Miami Home Retrieved 04-15-11.
External links[link]
| Preceded by Salomé with "Vivo cantando" |
Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 |
Succeeded by Karina with "En un mundo nuevo" |
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| Name | Iglesias, Julio |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Musician |
| Date of birth | September 23, 1943 |
| Place of birth | Madrid, Spain |
| Date of death | |
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