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Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American guitarist and country singer, originally from Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, though he had already become famous as a 1960s songwriter. Willie Nelson - Biographical details. Willie Nelson - Beginnings. Nelson and his sister, Bobbie Nelson, were raised by their grandparents after their father died and their mother ran away. Willie played the guitar, while Bobbie p ...

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Willie Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon. His distinctive music sometimes takes a backseat to his public image, that of a marijuana smoking old hippie troubadour. His image is marked by his red hair, often braided into two ponytails and partially concealed under a bandana. He has been featured in recent advertisements for a variety of products and companies, including The Gap. During the controversial 2003 Texas Congressional Redistricting, Nelson made the news by sending a case of whiskey to the Democrats of the Texas L ...

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Willie Nelson - Beginnings. Nelson and his sister, Bobbie Nelson, were raised by their grandparents after their father died and their mother ran away. Willie played the guitar, while Bobbie played the piano. She met Bud Fletcher, a fiddler, and both siblings joined his band while Willie was in high school. After graduation, Nelson joined the Air Force, but left due to back problems. Eventually, he became a DJ at a country radio station in Fort Worth, Texas, while singing locally in honky tonk bars. In 1956 ...

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Nelson's touring and recording group is a collection of a number of long-standing members, including his sister Bobbie Nelson, longtime drummer Paul English, harmonicist Mickey Raphael, Bee Spears, and Jody Payne. They tour North America in their bus, the "Honeysuckle Rose II". Nelson's principal guitar is a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic, which he has named "Trigger", after Roy Rogers' horse. Constant strumming over the decades has worn a large sweeping hole into the guitar's body near the sound hole. Its soundboard has been signed over the years by over a hundred of Nelson's friends and associat ...

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Willie Nelson - Albums. Nelson has released dozens of albums under a number of different labels; these are some of his most notable accomplishments. Bolded albums reached #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Yesterday's Wine (1971) Shotgun Willie (1973) Troublemaker (1973) Phases and Stages (1974) Red Headed Stranger (1975) Sound in Your Mind (1976) Wanted: The Outla ...

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