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Willie is about 5' 5" in height.
Posted on 05/25/2013 5:41:00 PM PDT by WilliamIII
America loves its outlaws, and few are as admired and lionized as Willie Nelson.
As the enduring American icon recently turned 80, he's been honored with lifetime achievement awards, serenaded at special performances and saluted by musicians from every genre of music. And Nelson has taken it all in with a bemused smile.
"It's a nice thing to do for someone on their birthday, and I appreciate it," Nelson said in a recent interview aboard his bus. "Usually I like to forget my birthdays as much as possible."
(Excerpt) Read more at fayobserver.com ...
“you don’t get that country music sprang from ancient songs brought over to the US by the Scots.......it is very pure music...”
Scotch-Irish to be exact. Here is Patsy Cline with a classic written by Willie Nelson in 1962:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wJNpWgss8
(I wonder what Willie's views are on so-called "same-sex marriage".)
“Dozens of country singers...”? Really? Name ‘em. And first mention of Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton, etc., and you lose.
Any more stones you'd care to toss at old people?
Partaking of G-d's first gift does NOT make you evil. The govt has misled you all your short life into hating something you know so very little about.
I’ve heard that he did own that at one time—don’t know if he still does. I’ve never been there.
How ya doin’ stranger? I haven’t seen you around in a while.
..........with all due respect sir, I don’t think so!
.......Willie has worked tirelessly for FarmAid and other charities donating millions to thousands of farmers and others!
I don’t know of any other person, singer or otherwise, who has the track record Willie has for raising money by donating proceeds of selected concerts to charity. The last one I went to was just a few weeks ago in Austin and he donated that money to charity.
Willie is probably one of the top 5 guitar players alive - at least according to my player friends.
Funny How Time Slips Away ~~~ Willie Nelson
You’re almost a month late. Willie Nelson’s birthday was on April 30th. I know because my birthday is the same day!
That is a truly beautiful version of that tune.
Thanks for posting.
Happy Birthday Willie
I remember seeing Willie on TV many years ago with short hair and wearing a V-neck sweater.
Then the hippies got him.
Old Willie don’t die. He just smells that way. Douglas MacArthur
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Willie is about 5' 5" in height.
In speaking of Nashville, Waylon said, “It don’t take shit to be an outlaw in a city full of in-laws”. I’ve lived here for many years and the statement is completely accurate.
I’m wearing my prized luckenbach texas t shirt today
Lukenbach Texas consists of three or four buildings and a very big parking lot. It seems that a rabid leftie would have ties to such a seemingly conservative values place
I go back to when Country was Country & Western. Back in the depression, scores of singers did homey little radio show - if they were lucky - and most just toured in broken down old trucks and buses. I actually could name a dozen or more, but I’ll leave research to you and hope you get an education about what kind of heritage Country actually has and what it meant to millions of people walking beans, milking cows (by hand) or working cattle on some dust bowl ranch. This music was the music of the people. Unpolished and full of their sorrows, joys and struggles. Today, it’s mostly rock with a steel guitar thrown in and some clown with a bent up hat he thinks look worn all proper with store-bought sweat stains.
Thanks for trying, Newb.
That’s wonderful; Willie does nice things for people. He was in the ‘We are the world’ concert for helping to buy Twinkies for the starving people in Bangledesh, right?
Humanity is capable of many things and a mixture resides in all of us. I don’t dispute that nor do I denigrate his good deeds. The point is the false honor that is doled out to many who simply fall into it or inherit the cache of generation gone before. Country has certainly spawned more than a few of these and Willie is one - in my opinion.
Tell me this, do you think his lifestyle and efforts on behalf of leftist causes might have an impact on some people? If so, is there any avenue of recognition that would be appropriate. What about politicians we skewer daily here that may have done good things?
Consider that and reload.
Seriously, I don't need to laud Willie and I'm not impressed by his benefit concerts anymore than I care to publicize my own beneficence (which is greater than Algore, by the way). Incidentally, family farms that have locked themselves into the corn-beans-corn-beans-corn-beans-corn-beans paradigm have willingly become jobbers for agribusiness because of earlier easy gains. The loss of those farms, while sad (and I say this with one in the family and a good portion of my life in ag related fields), are little different from other small businesses losing market share or imploding due to rising input costs. So far, I'm not aware of benefit concerts for gas station owners, corner grocers or any other tradition of economic individualism.
I think if you really look at the man you are celebrating, you will find that his philosophies clearly trend left. That said, his ideas of utopia would just strip his farmer friends of their farms just as neatly and might even earn them a bullet in the head if they totally triumph. Like most useful idiots, Willie doesn't know what his left and right hand have to do with each other, let alone what they are doing.
‘Nuff said.
So, you can’t name any. That’s fine.
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