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Willie Nelson: The Outlaw
With a face that wouldn't look out of place carved into Mount Rushmore, Willie Nelson has done and seen it all. A dope-smoking, whisky-drinking, latter-day cowboy with Native American blood, four wives, and seven children, Nelson has a career that spans half a century of American music. In this revealing, intimate, and insightful biography, Graeme Thomson goes beyond the m...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
May 1st 2007
by Virgin Books
(first published 2006)
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The music of Willie Nelson has never been up high on my playlist. Country music had a definite lack of cool back in the days of my musical youth. Only comparatively recently has the sound of Lucinda Williams tempted me to join the good ole boys, with the exception of short sojourns into Gram Parsons, Dead and Byrds fayre.
So the life and career of Nelson was largely a blank prior to reading Graeme Thomson's 2006 publication of 'The Outlaw'. Perhaps Nelson is as close as anyone can get to...more
So the life and career of Nelson was largely a blank prior to reading Graeme Thomson's 2006 publication of 'The Outlaw'. Perhaps Nelson is as close as anyone can get to...more
Judge the artist or the art ?
He's written great songs ("Hello, Walls", "Crazy"), had a bunch of marriages, a bunch of kids, and some high old times.
He's been a pretty poor husband - but then a musician who spends most of his time on the road (and puts his career first) is rarely going to be an ideal husband.
Best anecdote from the wild bunch in Nashville - Roger Miller (famous for "King Of The Road" amongst others") advises ...more
He's written great songs ("Hello, Walls", "Crazy"), had a bunch of marriages, a bunch of kids, and some high old times.
He's been a pretty poor husband - but then a musician who spends most of his time on the road (and puts his career first) is rarely going to be an ideal husband.
Best anecdote from the wild bunch in Nashville - Roger Miller (famous for "King Of The Road" amongst others") advises ...more
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Interesting and sad. Willie seems like he was ridden hard and put away wet for most of his life. But what a great musician. It's hard to believe his career spanned so many decades, from just getting by in the 50's, to being a jobber musician thru the 60's and 70's, and finally having money when he got a bit older, only to find the problems are never over.
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You have to admire a man who garnered as much popularity as he has over the years and who "did it his way". He's really worked at his music, it's not just standing up and singing. But he's not without flaws and those, too, are revealed. Very balanced biography.
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