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Willie-Nelson

Willie Nelson

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Abbott, Texas
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April 30, 1933

Willie Hugh Nelson

1962 And Then I Wrote

1963 Here's Willie Nelson

1965 Country Willie - His Own Songs

1966 Country Favorites-Willie Nelson Style

1967 Make Way for Willie Nelson

1967 The Party's Over" and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs

1968 Texas on My Soul

1969 Good Times

1969 My Own Peculiar Way

1970 Columbus Stockade Blues

1970 Both Sides Now

1970 Laying My Burdens Down

1971 Willie Nelson and Family

1971 Yesterday's Wine

1972 The Words Don't Fit the Picture

1972 The Willie Way

1973 Country Winners

1973 Shotgun Willie

1974 Spotlight on Willie Nelson

1974 Phases and Stages

1975 Country Willie

1975 What Can You Do to Me Now

1975 Red Headed Stranger

1976 The Sound in Your Mind

1976 The Longhorn Jamboree Presents: Willie Nelson & His Friends

1976 Troublemaker

1977 Willie - Before His Time

1977 To Lefty From Willie

1978 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight

1978 Stardust

1978 Face of a Fighter

1979 Sweet Memories

1979 Sings Kristofferson

1979 Pretty Paper

1980 The Electric Horseman

1980 Honeysuckle Rose

1980 Family Bible

1981 Minstrel Man

1982 Always on My Mind

1983 Take It to the Limit

1983 Tougher Than Leather

1984 Without a Song

1984 City of New Orleans

1984 Angel Eyes

1985 Me and Paul

1986 Partners

1986 The Promiseland

1987 Island in the Sea

1987 What a Wonderful World

1989 A Horse Called Music

1990 Born for Trouble

1992 The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?

1992 Any Old Arms Won't Do

1993 Across the Borderline

1994 Six Hours at Pedernales

1994 Moonlight Becomes You

1994 Healing Hands of Time

1995 Just One Love

1995 Augusta

1996 Willie Standard Time

1996 Spirit

1996 How Great Thou Art

1998 Teatro

1999 Night and Day

2000 Tales Out of Luck (Me and the Drummer)

2000 Good Ol' Country Singin'

2000 Milk Cow Blues

2001 Rainbow Connection

2002 The Great Divide

2002 Willie Nelson & Friends - Stars & Guitars

2003 Crazy: The Demo Sessions

2004 Outlaws and Angels

2004 It Always Will Be

2004 Nacogdoches

2005 Songs

2005 Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia

2005 Countryman

2006 You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker

2008 Moment of Forever

Soundtrack

Late Night with David Letterman (TV series) (performer: "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "Freight Train Boogie" - uncredited) (2 episodes, 2010-2011)

Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years (TV movie) (writer: "Crazy") (2011)

CMT: 40 Greatest Love Songs (TV movie) (performer: "Good Hearted Woman", "Always On My Mind") (2011)

Hellcats (TV series) (writer: "On the Road Again" - uncredited) (1 episode, 2010)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series) (writer: "Crazy") (1 episode, 2010)

Detroit 1-8-7 (TV series) (writer: "Crazy" - uncredited) (1 episode, 2010)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series) (performer: "Freight Train Boogie", "Man with the Blues") (2 episodes, 2010)

The Crazies (performer: "Bring Me Sunshine") (2010)

Valentine's Day (performer: "On The Street Where You Live") (2010)

Stan Helsing (writer: "Crazy") (2009)

Zombieland (performer: "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain") (2009)

Crook & Chase (TV series) (2 episodes, 2009) (writer: "Night Life", "Crazy", "Hello Walls", "Funny How Time Slips Away" / performer: "Night Life", "Crazy", "Hello Walls", "Funny How Time Slips Away" , "Good Hearted Woman", "Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys")

The Queens of Country (video) (writer: "Crazy", "Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain") (2009)

Southland (TV series) (performer: "What Was It You Wanted" - uncredited) (1 episode, 2009)

Flashpoint (TV series) (performer: "Amazing Grace" – uncredited) (1 episode, 2009)

Dolly Parton & Friends: Love Always - Live from Texas (video) (performer: "Wabash Cannonball") (2009)

Lost (TV series) ("Shotgun Willie" – uncredited) ("Are You Sure") (2 episodes, 2004-2009)

The Messenger (performer: "Home on the Range" 1904) (2009)

Legion (writer: "Hello Walls" / performer: "Hello Walls") (2009)

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (TV movie) (performer: "Little Dealer Boy", "What's So Funny 'bout Peace, Love And Understanding") (2008)

Guitar Hero World Tour (Video Game) ("On The Road Again") (2008)

W. (performer: "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") (2008)

Fringe (TV series) (writer: "Crazy" / performer: "Crazy") (1 episode, 2008)

The Watermelon ("Crazy") (2008)

Generation Kill (TV mini-series) (writer: "On the Road Again") (1 episode, 2008)

60/90 (TV series) (writer: "Crazy") (2008)

Swing Vote (performer: "Always on My Mind")(2008)

Cold Case (TV series) (writer: "Crazy") (1 episode, 2008)

Fields of Fuel (documentary) (writer / performer: "On the Road Again") (2008)

Crazy (writer: "Crazy") (2008)

Opry Video Classics: The Hall of Fame (video) (performer: "Mr. Record Man") (2007)

Opry Video Classics: Legends (video) (writer: "Crazy" / performer: "Medley: Hello Walls/Funny How Time Slips Away") (2007)

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (TV movie) (writer: "Miles" / performer: "Miles") (2007)

Dolly Parton & Friends (video) (writer: "Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain") (2007)

Family Guy (TV series) (1 episode, 2007)

For the Bible Tells Me So (documentary) (performer: "Family Bible") (2007)

40th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV movie) (performer: "To All The Girls I've Loved Before") (2006)

Catch and Release (performer: "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") (2006)

The Ultimate Gift (writer: "Crazy") (2006)

My Name Is Earl (TV series) (performer: "Whiskey River" / "Whiskey River") (1 episode, 2006)

Today's Country Music (video) (performer: "Will the Circle be Unbroken") (2006)

Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (documentary) (writer: "On the Road Again" / performer: "Georgia on My Mind", "On the Road Again") (2006)

Broken Bridges (performer: "Uncloudy Day" / "Uncloudy Day") (2006)

The Hottest State (performer: "Always Seem To Get Things Wrong") (2006)

Beerfest (writer: "I Gotta Get Drunk" / performer: "I Gotta Get Drunk") (2006)

Words to Music: The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame 2006 (TV movie) (performer: "Bird on a Wire") (2006)

Brokeback Mountain (performer: "He Was a Friend of Mine") (2005)

The Dukes of Hazzard (performer: "Good Ol' Boys") (2005)

C.R.A.Z.Y. (writer: "Crazy") (2005)

The Wendell Baker Story (writer: "Me & Paul" / performer: "Me & Paul") (2005)

Man of the House (writer: "Funny How Time Slips Away" / performer: "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", "Old Five and Dimers Like Me", "Funny How Time Slips Away") (2005)

Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (documentary) (performer: "Pancho & Lefty") (2004)

Entourage (TV series) ("Still Is Still Moving To Me" - uncredited) (1 episode, 2004)

Ella Enchanted (writer: "Crazy") (2004)

Dorian Blues (writer: "Crazy") (2004)

Dolly Parton & Friends on the Country Train (video) (performer: "Wabash Cannon Ball") (2003)

Japanese Story (writer: "On the Road Again") (2003)

Hope Springs (performer: "Am I Blue") (2003)

Stevie (documentary) (performer: "The Maker") (2002)

The Rookie (performer: "Nothing I Can Do About It Now") (2002)

Uncle Frank (documentary) (writer: "Pretty Paper", "Good Hearted Woman" / performer: "Pretty Paper", "Good Hearted Woman") (2002)

South Park (TV series) (performer: "On The Road Again") (1 episode, 2001)

Last Party 2000 (documentary) (performer: "Whiskey River" - uncredited) (2001)

Shrek (writer: "On the Road Again") (2001)

Korean War Stories (TV documentary) (writer: "Jimmy's Road" / performer: "Jimmy's Road") (2001)

Grand Ole Opry 75th: A Celebration (TV special) (writer: "Wabash Cannonball/Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain/Night Train to Memphis/I Saw The Light" Medley) (2000)

Space Cowboys (performer: "Still Crazy After All These Years") (2000)

Postmark Paradise (writer: "I Guess I've Come to Live Here in Your Eyes" / performer: "I Guess I've Come to Live Here in Your Eyes") (2000)

Committed (writer: "Hello Walls") (2000)

Earthly Possessions (TV movie) (performer: "They All Went to Mexico") (1999)

Why Not Me? (writer: "Crazy") (1999)

Bride of Chucky (writer: "Crazy") (1998)

Primary Colors (writer: "ON THE ROAD AGAIN" / performer: "On The Road Again") (1998)

Wag the Dog (writer: "I Guard The Canadian Border" / performer: "I Guard The Canadian Border", "GOOD Old Shoe") (1997)

The Ride (performer: "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") (1997)

In & Out (writer: "Crazy") (1997)

The Big One (documentary) (writer: "On The Road Again") (1997)

Doing Time for Patsy Cline (writer: "Crazy") (1997)

Gone Fishin' (performer: "Down In The Everglades") (1997)

Michael (performer: "What a Wonderful World") (1996)

The People vs. Larry Flynt (writer: "Hello Walls") (1996)

The Long Kiss Goodnight (writer: "Funny How Time Slips Away") (1996)

Some Mother's Son ("Crazy") (1996)

Due South (TV series) (performer: "Have I told you lately that I love you") (1 episode, 1996)

Carried Away (writer: "Crazy", "Touch Me" / performer: "Crazy", "Touch Me") (1996)

The Big Green (writer: "On The Road Again" / performer: "On The Road Again") (1995)

The Run of the Country (music: "Crazy" / lyrics: "Crazy") (1995)

Women of the House (TV series) (performer: "You Always Hurt the One You Love") (1 episode, 1995)

Tommy Boy ("Crazy") (1995)

Great Performances (TV series) (performer: "All the Things You Are") (1 episode, 1995)

Cybill (TV series) (writer: "Crazy" - uncredited) (1 episode, 1995)

Nell (writer: "Crazy") (1994)

Pontiac Moon (writer: "Crazy") (1994)

I Like It Like That (writer: "Crazy") (1994)

Forrest Gump (writer: "On The Road Again" / performer: "On The Road Again") (1994)

A Perfect World (writer: "Night Life", "Funny How Time Slips Away" / performer: "Funny How Time Slips Away") (1993)

Flesh and Bone (performer: "Stardust") (1993)

The Thing Called Love (writer: "Crazy") (1993)

Saturday Night Live (TV series) (performer: "Graceland", "Still is Still Moving to Me", "Whiskey River", "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", "Something to Brag About" – uncredited) (2 episodes, 1977-1993)

Jennifer Eight (performer: "Someone To Watch Over Me") (1992)

Delta (TV series) (writer: "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" / performer: "Always On My Mind", "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" / writer: "Crazy" uncredited) (2 episodes, 1992)

Honeymoon in Vegas (performer: "Blue Hawaii") (1992)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series) (performer: "Always on My Mind" - uncredited) (1 episode, 1995)

My Cousin Vinny (writer: "Funny How Time Slips Away") (1992)

Reasonable Doubts (TV series) (writer: "Crazy" - uncredited) (1 episode, 1991

The Simpsons (TV series) (writer: "Crazy" – uncredited) (1 episode, 1991)

Doc Hollywood (writer: "Crazy") (1991)

In the Heat of the Night (TV series) (writer: "Turn Out the Lights" - uncredited) (1 episode, 1991)

White Palace (writer: "Good Hearted Woman") (1990)

Texasville (writer: "Good Hearted Woman" / performer: "On The Sunny Side Of The Street", "September Song", "Stardust", "City Of New Orleans", "Good Hearted Woman") (1990)

Falling Over Backwards (writer: "Crazy") (1990)

The Handmaid's Tale (writer: "Crazy") (1990)

Big Bad John (performer: "Pancho and Lefty") (1990)

Welcome Home (performer: "Welcome Home, Welcome Home" theme song) (1989)

Field of Dreams (writer: "Crazy") (1989)

Kenny, Dolly and Willie: Something Inside So Strong (TV movie) (writer: "On The Road Again" / performer: "9 to 5", "Coat of Many Colors", "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys", "Sweet Music Man", "Two Doors Down", "On The Road Again", "Real Love", "Something Inside So Strong") (1989)

Full Moon in Blue Water (performer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore") (1988)

Murder One (writer: "Crazy") (1988)

Colors (writer: "Bloody Mary Morning" / performer: "Bloody Mary Morning") (1988)

Into the Homeland (TV movie) (performer: "Living In The Promiseland") (1987)

Rock Odyssey ("On the Road Again") (1987)

Crimes of the Heart (performer: "Don't Fence Me In") (1986)

Amazing Stories (TV series) (writer: "Crazy") (1 episode, 1986)

UFOria ("Good Hearted Woman") (1985)

The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (TV series) (writer: "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before") (1 episode, 1985)

The Winning Hand (TV movie) (writer: "I Never Cared For You", "To Make a Long Story Short, She's Gone", "You Left Me a Long, Long Time Ago" / performer: "I Never Cared For You", "Everything's Beautiful In It's Own Way", "To Make a Long Story Short, She's Gone", "King of a Lonely Castle", "You're Gonna Love Yourself In The Morning", "Someone Waiting For You", "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby", "Me and Bobby McGee", "You Left Me a Long, Long Time Ago", "Casey's Last Ride", "Don't Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Does") (1985)

1918 (performer: "A Long, Long Trail", "Keep the Home Fires Burning") (1985)

Porky's Revenge (performer: "Love Me Tender") (1985)

Moonlighting (TV series) (writer: "Crazy") (1985)

Best Defense ("On The Road Again") (1984)

Hells Angels Forever (documentary) (performer: "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground", "I Can Get Off on You") (1983)

Alvin & the Chipmunks (TV series) (1983)

17th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special) (performer: "To All The Girls I Loved Before") (1983)

Knight Rider (TV series) (performer: "Always On My Mind", "Always On My Mind") (1 episode, 1982)

Rich and Famous (performer: "On The Sunny Side of the Street") (1981)

The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special) (writer: "On the Road Again" / performer: "On the Road Again") (1981)

Ruckus (writer: "What Can You Do To Him Now?", "One Day At A Time") (1981)

The Facts of Life (TV series) (writer: "On the Road Again") (1 episode, 1981)

Honeysuckle Rose (writer: "On The Road Again", "Pick Up The Tempo", "Heaven Or Hell", "Bloody Mary Morning", "If You Want Me To I Will", "It's Not Supposed To Be That Way", "Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground", "I Guess I've Come To Live Here In Your Eyes", "So You Think You're A Cowboy" / Performer: "ON The Road Again", "Pick Up The Tempo", "Heaven Or Hell", "Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain", "Whiskey River", "Bloody Mary Morning", "Loving You Is Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again", " It's Not Supposed To Be That Way", "You Show Me Yours And I'll Show You Mine", "If You Could Touch Her At All", " Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground", "I Guess I've Come To Live Here In Your Eyes", " Angel Eyes", "A Song For You", "Uncloudy Day", "SO You Think You're A Cowboy" / Arranger: " Uncloudy Day") (1980)

The Deer Hunter (writer: "Good Hearted Woman" - uncredited) (1978)

The Rockford Files (TV series) (writer: "Good Hearted Woman", "Heartaches of a Fool" / performer: "Good Hearted Woman", "Heartaches of a Fool") (1 episode, 1978)

Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala (TV movie) (writer: "Crazy") (1977)

Mackintosh and T.J. (performer: "Stay All Night") (1975)

Austin City Limits (TV series documentary) (performer: "Good Hearted Woman", "It's Not Supposed To Be That Way", "Phases And Stages", "Headed Home To Austin", "Ain't It Funny/Crazy", "Okie From Muskogee", "Redneck Mother", "Bloody Mary Morning", "Stay All Night", "Whiskey River", "Pick Up The Tempo", "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?", "When The Roll Is Called", "Mountain Dew", "Song For You", "Turn Out the Lights", "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms") (1 episode, 1975)

Puzzle (short) (writer / performer: "Stay All Night Stay A Little Longer") (1974)

Elvis on Tour (documentary) (writer: "Funny How Time Slips Away") (1972)

Actor

When Angels Sing (2011)

Get a Job (2011)

Surfer, Dude (2008)

Beer for My Horses (2008)

Blonde Ambition (2007)

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (TV movie) (2007)

Fighting with Anger (2007)

The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

Monk (TV series) (2 episodes, 2002-2004)

The Big Bounce (2004)

The Journeyman (2001)

Stardust (2000)

Outlaw Justice (TV movie) (1999)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV series) (2 episodes, 1996-1998)

Half Baked (1998)

Wag the Dog (1997)

Nash Bridges (TV series) (1 episode, 1997)

Gone Fishin' (1997)

Starlight (1996)

Dust to Dust (1994)

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (TV movie) (1991)

Pair of Aces (TV movie) (1990)

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (TV movie) (1988)

Once Upon a Texas Train (TV movie) (1988)

Miami Vice (TV series) (1 episode, 1986)

Red Headed Stranger (1986)

Stagecoach (TV movie) (1986)

The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (TV movie) (1986)

Pryor's Place (TV series) (1 episode, 1984)

Songwriter (1984)

Coming Out of the Ice (TV movie) (1982)

Barbarosa (1982)

Thief (1981)

Honeysuckle Rose (1980)

The Electric Horseman (1979)

The Rockford Files (TV series) (singing voice) (uncredited) (1 episode, 1978)

Music

Spain... on the Road Again (TV series documentary) (composer, performer: theme song: "On the Road Again") (12 episodes, 2008-2012)

Black Snake Moan (musician: The Sound of Memphis) (2006)

Producer

Legalize It (documentary) (executive producer) (post-production) (2011)

Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Special (TV movie) (executive producer) (2007)

Fighting with Anger (executive producer) (2007)

Farm Aid '96 (TV documentary) (executive producer: Farm Aid) (1996)

Big Country (producer) (1996)

Red Headed Stranger (producer) (1986)

Stagecoach (TV movie) (executive producer) (1986)

Birdland (video short) (executive producer) (1984)

Streetwise (documentary) (executive producer) (1984)

Composer
Trailer Court Justice (TV series) (2006)

Red Headed Stranger (1986)

Stagecoach (TV movie) (1986)

Honeysuckle Rose (1980)

Appearances

Legalize It (documentary) (post-production) (2011)

Kokua for Japan (TV movie) (2011)

Detroit City Hoedown (documentary) (2009)

Late Show with David Letterman (TV series) (6 episodes, 1998-2011)

The King of Luck (documentary) (2011)

Toots and the Maytals Reggae Got Soul (TV documentary) (2011)

The Marty Stuart Show (TV series) (1 episode, 2011)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV special) (2010)

Jessica Simpson: Happy Christmas (TV movie) (2010)

Larry King Live (TV series) (3 episodes, 2010)

Ray Charles America (documentary) (2010)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series) (4 episodes, 2010)

CMT Insider (TV series) (9 episodes, 2005-2010)

Glastonbury 2010 (TV special) (2010)

Breakfast (TV series) (1 episode, 2010)

Soundstage (TV series documentary) (2 episodes, 2003-2010)

Wild Horses and Renegades (documentary) (2010)

The Mark Twain Prize: Bill Cosby (TV movie) (2009)

Farm Aid 2009 (TV movie) (2009)

Happiness Is (documentary) (2009)

One Peace at a Time (documentary) (2009)

Patsy Cline: Remembering Patsy (video) (2009)

Willie Nelson: My Life (video documentary) (2009)

Welcome to Eden (documentary) (2009)

Kokua 2008: 5 Years of Change (documentary) (2009)

An Evening with Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson (TV movie) (2009)

In the Hank Williams Tradition (video) (2009)

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (TV movie) (2008)

Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center New York City (video) (2008)

Fuel (documentary) (2008)

Wisdom (video documentary) (2008)

Farm Aid 2008 (TV movie) (2008)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV series) (1 episode, 2008)

The Early Show (TV series) (1 episode, 2008)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series) (9 episodes, 1993-2008)

It's Easy Being Green (TV series) (2008)

Swing Vote (2008)

The King of Texas (documentary) (2008)

Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV series) (1 episode, 2008)

Fields of Fuel (documentary) (2008)

I Ride (video documentary) (2008)

Delta Rising: A Blues Documentary (documentary) (2008)

Great Performances (TV series) (3 episodes, 1995-2007)

Prometheus Bound: The Epidemic of Hepatitis C (documentary) (2007)

Elvis: Viva Las Vegas (TV documentary) (2007)

Here Is What Is (documentary) (2007)

Last of the Breed: Live in Concert (TV movie) (2007)

Modern Marvels (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 2007)

The 5th Annual TV Land Awards (TV special) (2007)

Kokua Festival 2006 (TV movie) (2007)

Revolution Green (documentary) (2007)

The Colbert Report (TV series) (1 episode, 2007)

Now with Bill Moyers (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 2007)

Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Special (TV special) (2007)

The Unforeseen (documentary) (2007)

Biography (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 2006)

American Revolutions: The Highwaymen (TV movie) (2006)

It's Happiness: A Polka Documentary (documentary) (2006)

Broken Bridges (2006)

Beerfest (2006)

CMT Greatest Moments: Willie Nelson (TV special) (2006)

The Daily Show (TV series) (1 episode, 2006)

Too Hot Not to Handle (TV documentary) (2006)

Words to Music: The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame 2006 (TV movie) (2006)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV movie) (2005)

Diary (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 2005)

39th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special) (2005)

Real Time with Bill Maher (TV series) (1 episode, 2005)

CMT: 100 Greatest Duets Concert (TV special) (2005)

Reel Comedy (TV series) (1 episode, 2005)

Tootsie's Orchid Lounge: Where the Music Began (video) (2005)

Nick & Jessica's Tour of Duty (TV movie) (2005)

All We Are Saying (TV documentary) (2005)

Willie Nelson: Songs for Tsunami Relief - From Austin to South Asia (video) (2005)

Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of 'Walk the Line' (TV documentary short) (2005)

CMT: Greatest Men 2005 (TV special) (2005)

Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (documentary) (2004)

What'd I Say?: A Tribute to Ray Charles (TV documentary) (2004)

CMA Music Festival: Country Music's Biggest Party (TV special) (2004)

Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem (TV documentary) (2004)

The 39th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (2004)

Antone's: Home of the Blues (documentary) (2004)

Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well (TV documentary) (2004)

Shock'n Y'all Super Bowl Party (TV special) (2004)

Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels (TV movie) (2004)

CMT Got Me in with the Band (TV series) (2004)

Willie Nelson: Live at Billy Bob's Texas (video documentary) (2004)

Get Up, Stand Up (TV documentary) (2003)

2003 Radio Music Awards (TV special) (2003)

The Last Link (documentary) (2003)

Hempsters: Plant the Seed (documentary) (2003)

Willie Nelson & Friends: Live and Kickin' (TV special) (2003)

The 38th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (2003)

Mr. Smith Goes to Pittsburgh (short) (2003)

Ringo Rama (video documentary short) (2003)

American Veteran Awards (TV special) (2003)

Space Ghost Coast to Coast (TV series) (2 episodes, 2001-2003)

Nobel Peace Prize Concert (TV special documentary) (2002)

American Masters (TV series documentary) (2 episodes, 1992-2002 )

The Country Bears (2002)

CMT Crossroads (TV series) 1 episode, 2002)

CMT Flame Worthy Video Music Awards (TV special) (2002)

The 37th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (2002)

Waylon: Renegade. Outlaw. Legend. (video documentary) (2002)

Willie Nelson & Friends: Stars & Guitars (TV special) (2002)

KiHo Alu-Keola Beamer (documentary) (2001)

Last Party 2000 (documentary) (2001)

Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (documentary) (2001)

Crossover (TV special) (2001)

America: A Tribute to Heroes (TV special documentary) (2001)

Willie Nelson, Live in Amsterdam (video) (2001)

Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 2001)

Kinky Friedman: Proud to Be an PALZOO from El Paso (documentary) (2001)

Korean War Stories (TV documentary) (2001)

Live by Request: Willie Nelson (TV special) (2000)

The Simpsons (TV series) (1 episode, 2000)

Immaculate Funk (2000)

Austin City Limits (TV series documentary) (7 episodes, 1975-2000)

Johnny Cash: Half Mile a Day (video documentary) (2000)

The 1999 Billboard Music Awards (TV movie) (1999)

Asleep at the Wheel: The Making of 'Ride with Bob' (TV movie) (1999)

E! True Hollywood Story (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 1999)

Woodstock '99 (TV special) (1999)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

The Awful Truth (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 1999)

CD Highway (TV series) (1999)

Dill Scallion (1999)

The Story of Darrell Royal (video documentary) (1999)

An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash (TV special documentary) (1999)

Merle Haggard: Live in Concert (video documentary) (1999)

In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (TV documentary) (1999)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV documentary) (1998)

America's Most Wanted (TV series) (1 episode, 1998)

Roger Miller Remembered (TV special) (1998)

Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope (TV documentary) (1998)

Behind the Music (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 1998)

Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998)

Farm Aid '97 (TV special documentary) (1997)

Willie Nelson: Down Home (TV movie) (1997)

Anthem (documentary) (1997)

VH1 Storytellers (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 1997)

King of the Hill (TV series) (1 episode, 1997)

CMT Presents: The King's Covers (TV documentary) (1997)

Farm Aid '96 (TV documentary) (1996)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV series) (1 episode, 1996)

American Dreamers (TV movie) (1996)

America's Music: The Roots of Country (TV mini-series documentary) (1996)

Later with Jools Holland (TV series) (1 episode, 1996)

Lola da musica (TV series) (1 episode, 1996)

Motorworld (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 1996)

The Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds (TV documentary) (1996)

Lost in Music (TV series documentary) (1 episode, 1996)

Farm Aid: The Tenth Anniversary Concert (TV documentary) (1995)

Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story (TV movie) (1995)

Howard Stern (TV series) (2 episodes, 1995)

We Are the World: A 10th Anniversary Tribute (TV special) (1995)

Sinatra Duets (TV special) (1994)

Coming and Going (TV mini-series documentary) (1994)

Big Country (1994)

A Day in the Life of Country Music (TV special) (1993)

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (documentary) (1993)

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-0 (TV special documentary) (1993)

Saturday Night Live (TV series) (3 episodes, 1977-1993)

Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (TV special documentary) (1993)

The Academy of Country Music's Greatest Hits (TV special) (1993)

The Howard Stern Interview (TV series) (1 episode, 1993)

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work (TV documentary) (1993)

Delta (TV series) (1 episode, 1992)

The 27th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (1992)

The 34th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special) (1992)

The 18th Annual People’s Choice Awards (TV special) (1992)

Ray Charles: 50 Years in Music (TV special documentary) (1991)

25th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special) (1991)

Wild Texas Wind (TV movie) (1991)

The Arsenio Hall Show (TV series) (1 episode, 1991)

The 26th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (1991)

WrestleMania VII (video) (1991)

Texas, Our Texas Inaugural Gala (TV special) (1991)

Today (TV series) (2 episodes, 1990)

Grammy Living Legends (TV special) (1989)

The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening (TV documentary) (1989)

The 24th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (1989)

The 16th Annual American Music Awards (TV special) (1989)

Kenny, Dolly and Willie: Something Inside So Strong (TV movie) (1989)

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration (TV movie) (1988)

Sábado noche (TV series) (1 episode, 1988)

The 23rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (1988)

Baja Oklahoma (TV movie) (1988)

A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (video documentary) (1988)

Walking After Midnight (documentary) (1988)

Dolly (TV series) (1 episode, 1987)

Farm Aid '87 (TV special) (1987)

Heartbeat (video) (1987)

Alabama... My Home's in Alabama (TV documentary) (1986)

Liberty Weekend (TV special documentary) (1986)

Hee Haw (TV series) (2 episodes, 1985)

The Winning Hand (TV movie) (1985)

The 20th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (TV special) (1985)

We Are the World (TV documentary short) (1985)

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz (TV movie) (1985)

Hells Angels Forever (documentary) (1983)

The 10th Annual American Music Awards (TV special) (1983)

17th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special) (1983)

Bob Hope's Pink Panther Thanksgiving Gala (TV movie) (1982)

The Glen Campbell Music Show (TV series) (1 episode, 1982)

The Barbara Walters Special (TV series) (1 episode, 1982)

Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda (1981)

The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special) (1 episode, 1981)

Good Morning America (TV series) (2 episodes, 1980)

The Unbroken Circle: A Tribute to Mother Maybelle Carter (TV special) (1979)

13th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special) (1979)

Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration (1979)

Disneyland (TV series) (1 episode, 1978)

Mickey's 50 (documentary) (1978)

10th Annual Country Music Association Awards (TV special) (1976)

A Poem Is a Naked Person (documentary) (1974)

Willie: Autobiography 1988

The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes 2002

The Tao of Willie 2006

Willie Nelson: An Epic Life 2008

Academy Awards

1981 Nominated Oscar Best Music, Original Song for: Honeysuckle Rose (1980) for: the song "On the Road Again"

American Music Awards

2007 Won AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting

Golden Boot Awards

1988 Won Golden Boot

Grammy Awards

2001 Nominated Grammy Best Long Form Music Video for: Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). Shared with: Wim Wenders (video director) & Deepak Nayar (video producer)

New York International Independent Film & Video Festival

2007 Won Grand Jury Prize Best Actor – Male for: Fighting with Anger (2007)

Western Heritage Awards

1997 Won Bronze Wrangler Fictional Television Drama for: "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1993). Shared with: Jane Seymour & Joe Lando (actors); Alan J. Levi (director); Tim Johnson (producer); Carl Binder & Beth Sullivan (executive producers) for: episode "Legend"br
1987 Won Bronze Wrangler for: Stagecoach (1986) (TV). Shared with: Raymond Katz (executive producer); Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson & Johnny Cash (actors); Elizabeth Ashley (actress)




Willie Nelson Performing Willie Nelson In Concert Willie Nelson Playing His Guitar Up Close With Willie Nelson

One of country & western’s most popular, prolific and distinctive singer / songwriters, Willie Nelson started out as a songwriter without much of a solo singing career and eventually became a star singer mostly covering pop and C&W standards. In 1956, Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, to begin a musical career, recording "Lumberjack", which was written by Leon Payne. The single sold fairly well, but did not establish a career. Nelson continued to work as a radio announcer in Vancouver and sing in clubs.

His dry, wry voice and plaintive, understated delivery helped him transcend country to reach wider pop audiences. In the ‘70s he spearheaded “outlaw” country – the non-Nashville alliance between “redneck” country musicians and “hippie” rock musicians – and helped establish Austin, Texas, as a country-rock capital. His grizzled face brought him film roles in “Electric Horseman”, “Honeysuckle Rose”, “Barbarossa” and 1984’s “Songwriter”, in which he co-starred with Kris Kristofferson (who, a year later, would join Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings on the first Highwaymen project). His problems with the Internal Revenue Service, as well as his leisure-time marijuana use, made Nelson an “outlaw” for real – and a counterculture style hero to many, long after the counterculture had gone back underground.

Nelson was raised by his grandparents and worked cotton fields until he was 10, when he began playing guitar in local German and Czech polka bands. He joined the air force, after, which he attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Before dropping out, he sold Bibles and encyclopedias door-to-door, worked as a disc jockey and musician and taught Sunday school. While teaching Sunday school in Fort Worth, Nelson was also playing honky-tonk clubs on Saturday nights; when his parishioners demanded he choose between the church and music, he chose the latter. He played bars around the country, taught guitar and wrote songs.

With the $50 he earned from his first published song, “Family Bible”, Nelson went to Nashville, where songwriter Hank Cochran got him a publishing contract. Nelson wrote pop and C&W hits for many artists: “Night Life” for Rusty Draper, “Funny How Time Slips Away” for Jimmy Elledge and Johnny Tillotson, “Crazy” for Patsy Cline, “Hello Walls” for Faron Young, “Wake Me When It’s Over” for Andy Williams and “Pretty Paper” for Roy Orbison. Eventually, he had a recording contract of his own, but his weathered tenor and his taste for sparse backup were considered un-commercial.

When his Nashville home burned down around 1970, Nelson moved back to Texas, continuing to record, write and perform. In 1972 he held his first annual Fourth of July picnic with young and old rock and country musicians in Dripping Springs, Texas – an event that would soon become a local institution. The Fourth of July was named Willie Nelson Day by the Texas Senate in 1975. In Austin, Nelson also began to clarify his own ideas on country music, simultaneously reclaiming traditions of honky-tonk, Western swing and early country music and giving the songs a starker, more modern outlook. “Phases and Stages”, a concept album produced by Arif Mardin, introduced Nelson’s mature style and 1975’s “Red Headed Stranger”, a country opera, made his music a commercial success. With a hit remake of Fred Rose’s “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (originally recorded by Roy Acuff in the ‘40s), the album went gold. In 1975 Nelson shared the “Outlaws” compilation LP with Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter, three other country musicians ignored by the Nashville establishment; it was the first platinum country LP.

Nelson and his band, which included his older sister Bobbie on piano, toured constantly through the ‘70s and were a major concert attraction through the South and West before the rest of the country caught on. But by the end of the decade, Nelson was an established star. “Willie and Family Live” (1978) went double platinum.

Meanwhile, Nelson’s songwriting tapered off; he did an album-length tribute to Kris Kristofferson and made duet albums with George Jones, Merle Haggard and Ray Price. The 4 million-seller “Stardust”, produced by Memphis veteran Booker T. Jones, was an album of old pop standards. For “Honeysuckle Rose”, Nelson wrote one new song, “On the Road Again”, that became a #1 country single and a #20 pop hit. In the ‘80s Nelson had multi-platinum albums with “Always on My Mind” and “Greatest Hits” while maintaining his prolific output of music and films. The first Highwaymen collaboration with Kristofferson, Jennings and Johnny Cash (#35, 1985) went gold – as did the 1985 “Half Nelson”, though it reached on #178 on the pop albums chart. In 1984 Nelson dueted with Julio Iglesias on the #5 pop hit “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”; in 1985 he helped launch the first Farm Aid concert for America’s embattled family farmers. Along with Neil Young and John Mellencamp, he has helped organize each succeeding Farm Aid benefit show.

Since the early ‘70s, even while performing in Las Vegas (as he did in the late ‘70s), Nelson has sported his standard attire: long hair and beard, headband, jeans, T-shirt and running shoes. The latter four items were nearly the only possession he had left after the IRS investigated him and in 1990 slapped him with a $16.7 million bill. Nelson was forced to auction off almost all of his possessions in 1991 (most of them reportedly bought by friends who vowed to return them to Nelson once he regained financial stability). To help raise desperately needed capital, Nelson sold “Who’ll Buy My Memories?” (subtitled “The IRS Tapes”) direct through an 800 telephone number. Nelson and the IRS eventually agreed to a $9 million settlement and the singer sued the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse, claiming it had mismanaged his finances. More money came in through Nelson’s appearances in TV and radio ads for Taco Bell.

In 1993 Nelson recorded the acclaimed “Across the Borderline”, on which such in-demand rock pros as producer Don Was (who’d recently rescued Bonnie Raitt and the B-52’s from commercial oblivion) and mixer Bob Clearmountain recorded Nelson duetting with Bonnie Raitt, Sinéad O’Connor and Bob Dylan, on tunes by Dylan, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett. Nelson followed that up with “Moonlight Becomes You”, a “Stardust”-style album of old pop standards that began with a hidden track in which Nelson told listeners that the album was on independent Justice Records because no major label would gamble on releasing such a record. Be that as it may, Nelson moved to another set of pop standards. The following year, he became the first country performer to sign with Island Records and he released the self-penned, self-produced “Spirit”; he followed that with the critically acclaimed “Teatro” (#104), 1998), a collaboration with producer Daniel Lanois. Eclectic as always, Nelson then released a jazzy collection of instrumentals (1999’s “Night and Day”) before segueing into his first blues record (2000’s “Milk Cow Blues”), on which he revisited some of his older songs. His long-delayed reggae album, on which he has been working on and off since 1996 with producer Don Was, is now scheduled for a 2001 release. Nelson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.

In recent years he has continued to tour, record, and perform, and this, combined with activities in advocacy of marijuana, as well as a well-publicized 2006 arrest for marijuana possession, have made him the subject of renewed media attention.


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