Jeansonne, Billy. “Paul English: On the Road...Again.” Classic Drummer, January–February 2005.
Jinkins, Shirley. “Small Church Born Again.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 3, 2006.
Langer, Andy. “Willie Isn’t Finished Giving.” Dallas Morning News, January 16, 2005.
Machan, Tibor. “Willie Nelson, Public Enemy?” Odessa American, October 1, 2006.
“Nelson Is a Hit with Researchers.” Associated Press, June 15, 2005.
“Nelson Plays for Injured Soldiers.” Associated Press. Waco Tribune-Herald, February 18, 2006.
“Nelson Rolls in Funds for Rockin’ Heart.” Waco Tribune-Herald, April 11, 2004.
Orshoski, Wes. “Young, Nelson, Mellencamp Help Farm Aid Turn Twenty-one.” Billboard, October 4, 2006.
Patoski, Joe Nick. “Entertainer of the Century.” Texas Monthly, December 1999.
———. “Gonna Catch Tomorrow Now.” No Depression, September–October 2004.
———. “With Strings Attached.” Texas Monthly, February 1988.
Ratliff, Ben. “Making Connections Between Town and Country.” New York Times, September 11, 2007.
Ratliff, John. “Willie’s ‘Facts’ Has Little Sense.” Waco Tribune-Herald, January 20, 2002.
Rosenfeld, Steven. “Willie Returns for an Encore.” Associated Press. Waco Tribune-Herald, April 18, 1993.
“Saving a Church.” Editorial. Waco Tribune-Herald, July 4, 2006.
Shaw, Punch. “Variety Fund-raiser Benefiting Scholarship Organizations Presents a Truly Eclectic Show.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 11, 2007.
Tarradell, Mario. “Downpour of Talent.” Dallas Morning News, July 5, 2006.
———. “Most Wanted: Singer, Author, Whiskey Maker: Willie’s the Toast of the Town.” Dallas Morning News, February 10, 2002.
———. “Willie Joins Celebration of Twenty Years of Farm Aid.” Dallas Morning News, July 12, 2005.
———. “Willie Opens Closet with ‘Cowboys.’” Dallas Morning News, February 14, 2006.
———. “Willie’s Eager to Celebrate in Fort Worth.” Dallas Morning News, July 4, 2004.
Varga, George. “Performances Make Nelson Salute Special.” Valley Morning Star, May 22, 1993.
Weitz, Matt. “Burstin’ Fourth.” Dallas Morning News, July 6, 2003.
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“Willie Nelson Cited for Pot, Mushrooms.” Associated Press. CNN.com, September 18, 2006.
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“Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song.” Associated Press, February 15, 2006.
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“Willie’s Picnic Off Again.” Waco Tribune-Herald, July 2, 2002.
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
American Digest column. Austin American-Statesman, February 26, 2006.
“Crazy.” From “The 100 Most Important American Musical Works of the Twentieth Century.” National Public Radio, September 4, 2000.
Family Bible with Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie. RFD-TV, 2006.
Hamblin, Tim. Austin History Center. Austin Public Library, Austin, TX.
Lost Highway Records. “Music Legends” and other press releases. Nashville, TN, January 2006–2007.
McFadden, Owen. “Outlaw: The Willie Nelson Story.” Broadcast on BBC2, London, November 14, 21, and 28, and December 5, 2006.
New York Public Library, New York.
Pedernales Records. Press release, March 16, 2007.
WEB SITES
Stillisstillmoving.com
Willienelson.com
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
There are more than three hundred records with Willie Nelson’s name on the cover. Many are original recordings, many others are reissues, and some are bootlegs.
The complete compilation of known recordings by Willie Nelson between 1953 and 1972 can be found in two box sets issued by Bear Family Records in Germany.
It’s Been Rough and Rocky Travelin’, consisting of three CDs and a sixty-four-page booklet written by Rich Kienzle, contains Willie’s earliest recordings, covering the period from 1953 to 1964, including his first demo tape, with “When I’ve Sang My Last Hillbilly Song” and “The Storm Has Just Begun,” made for Sarg Records; his first single, “No Place for Me” b/w “Lumberjack,” for Willie Nelson Records, including alternate versions; his “Attention, Songwriters” commercial aired on XEG radio; his singles for D Records; his “Nite Life” for Rx Records; and his two albums for Liberty Records.
Nashville Was the Roughest..., consisting of eight CDs and a seventy-two-page booklet written by Rich Kienzle, contains all of Willie’s recordings for Monument Records and RCA Records between 1964 and 1972.
Willie Nelson: The Complete Atlantic Sessions (Atlantic Records) covers the pivotal period of 1973 to 1974, including the Shotgun Willie and Phases and Stages albums, plus outtakes from both sessions, and the 1974 live recording from the Texas Opry House in Austin. In addition, there is a forty-three-page booklet written by compilation producer James Austin, record producer Jerry Wexler, and music critic Bill Bentley.
Willie Nelson: A Classic and Unreleased Collection (Rhino) is a two-CD set with a thirty-page booklet written by Rich Kienzle. It features Nelson’s first single, “No Place for Me” b/w “Lumberjack”; the fifteen-song demo he recorded for Pamper Music in Nashville in 1961; outtakes from his recording sessions for Atlantic Records in 1973 to 1974; his duet with Tracy Nelson on “After the Fire Is Gone”; the 1974 live recording from the Texas Opry House in Austin; and twenty-four mid-1980s vintage tracks from the unreleased albums Sugar Moon and Willie Sings Hank Williams, and from The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?
One Hell of a Ride (Columbia Legacy) features one hundred songs recorded by Willie between 1975 and 1995, when he was with Columbia Records.
Everyone has their Willie favorites. My forty must-have Willie Nelson albums are:
Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill)
And Then I Wrote (Liberty)
Here’s Willie Nelson (Liberty)
Country Willie: His Own Songs (RCA)
Live Country Music Concert (live at Panther Hall) (RCA)
Texas in My Sobib> (RCA)
Yesterday’s Wine (RCA)
Shotgun Willie (Atlantic)
Phases and Stages (Atlantic)
Red Headed Stranger (Columbia)
The Sound in Your Mind (Columbia)
The Troublemaker (Columbia)
To Lefty from Willie (Columbia)
Wanted! The Outlaws (with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Tompall Glaser) (RCA)
Stardust (Columbia)
Waylon and Willie (RCA)
Willie and Family Live (Columbia)
One for the Road (with Leon Russell) (Columbia)
Honeysuckle Rose (sound track) (Columbia)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Columbia)
Always on My Mind (Columbia)
Pancho and Lefty (with Merle Haggard) (Columbia)
Half Nelson (with various artists) (Columbia)
The Highwayman (with the Highwaymen—Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings) (Columbia)
Clean Shirt (with Waylon Jennings) (Sony)
A Horse Called Music (Sony)
The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories? (Sony)
Across the Borderline (Sony)
Just One Love (with Kimmie Rhodes) (Justice)
Spirit (Island)
How Great Thou
Art (Finer Arts)
Teatro (Island)
Night and Day (Finer Arts)
Milk Cow Blues (Lost Highway)
Rainbow Connection (Island)
Run That by Me One More Time (with Ray Price) (Lost Highway)
Countryman (Lost Highway)
It Will Always Be (Lost Highway)
You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (Lost Highway)
Last of the Breed (with Ray Price and Merle Haggard) (Lost Highway)
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