Willie Nelson

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.

Selected works

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.

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• Yesterday's Wine (1971)
• Shotgun Willie (1973)
• Troublemaker (1973)
• Phases and Stages (1974)
• Red Headed Stranger (1975)
• Sound in Your Mind (1976)
• Wanted: The Outlaws! (1976), with Jessi Colter, Tompall Glaser, and Waylon Jennings
• Waylon and Willie (1978), with Waylon Jennings
• Stardust (1978)
• Willie and Family Live (1978)
• Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1981), with Freddie Powers
• Greatest Hits and Some That Will Be (1981)
• The Winning Hand (with Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson and Brenda Lee) (1982)
• Always On My Mind (1982)^†
• WWII (1982), with Waylon Jennings
• Pancho and Lefty (1982), with Merle Haggard
• City of New Orleans (1984)
• Music From "Songwriter" (1984), with Kris Kristofferson
• Promised Land (1986)
• The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? (1992)
• Across The Borderline (1992)
• Teatro (1998)
• The Great Divide (2002)
• Crazy: The Demo Sessions (2003)
• Angels & Outlaws (2004)
• Countryman (2005)

† — In addition to topping the country chart, Always On My Mind also reached #2 on the Billboard's Top Pop Album chart, which was quite an accomplishment for a country album in the early 1980s.

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Songs

• "Family Bible" (1960)
• "I Gotta Get Drunk"
• "Night Life"
• "The Highwayman"
• "Hello Walls"
• "Pretty Paper"
• "Funny How Time Slips Away"
• "Crazy" (1961)
• "Bloody Mary Morning" (1974)
• "On The Road Again" (1980)
• "Write Your Own Songs" (1982)
• "City of New Orleans" (1984) written by Steve Goodman
• "Beer for My Horses"

Movies

• The Electric Horseman (1979)
• Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
• Barbarosa (1982)
• Songwriter (1984)
• Red-Headed Stranger (1986)
• Stagecoach (1986)
• Wag the Dog (1997 cameo)
• Half Baked (1998 cameo)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

Books

• Willie: An Autobiography (1988), with Bud Shrake, ISBN 0-815-41080-8
• The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes (2002) ISBN 0-375-50731-0