Who is Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country musician. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.Born during the Great Depression and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band at ten. During high school, he tour...
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Amxplaylist: "devil in a sleepin' bag" by willie nelson
Insanelygifted2: now playing desperados waiting for a train by waylon jennings, willie nelson, johnny cash and kris kristoffersen!
Jerrybarmess: who remembers a kinder gentler time in cleveland ? tom dancing to sunny side of the street by willie nelson. del 's farm reports. would love to hear tom haley recite "if christ had a little black dog" just one more time at easter.
Amxplaylist: "still not dead" by willie nelson
Aaronlittle81: willie nelson - on the road again
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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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