Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (føddur 30. apríl 1933 í Abbott, Texas í USA) er ein amerikanskur countrysangari og sangskrivari, rithøvundur, yrkjari, sjónleikari og kannabis-aktivistur. Han gjørdist kendur við sínum sokallaða "outlaw country" tónleiki í 1970'unum, og hevur framvegis ikoniskan status, serliga innan amerikanska poppmentan. Nelson hevur givið tónleik út síðani tíðliga í 1960'unum, og hann hevur framført kendar sangir sum "On the Road Again", "Highwayman", "Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain", "City of New Orleans", "Funny How Time Slips Away" og "Always On My Mind". 

Hóast komin væl til aldurs so heldur Willie Nelson fram við at túrnera og upptraðka við konsertum og peningainnsavnan til vælgerandi endamál saman við øðrum kendum tónleikarum, m.ø. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, og Dave Matthews. Hann hevur eisini hildið fram við at gera nýggjar innspælingar, gjarna í nýggjum sjangrum, so sum reggae, blues, jazzi, fólkatónleiki og poptónleiki.

Virðislønir 

Grammy Legend Award, eisini rópt Grammy Living Legend Award, er ein amerikanskur tónleikaprísur, ið Recording Academy lutar út til listafólk, sum gjøgnum íkast yvir eitt langt tíðarskeið hava havt stóra ávirkan á tónleikaídnaðin. Willie Nelson fekk tillutað henda prísin í 1990. 

Í 2000 fekk hann tillutað ein Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tónleikaútgávur 

 1961 – Love & Pain 
 1962 – And Then I Wrote 
 1963 – Here's Willie Nelson 
 1965 – Country Willie: His Own Songs 
 1966 – Country Favorites, Willie Nelson Style 
 1966 – Live Country Music Concert 
 1967 – Make Way for Willie Nelson 
 1967 – The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs 
 1968 – Good Times 
 1968 – Texas in My Soul 
 1969 – My Own Peculiar Way 
 1970 – Both Sides Now 
 1970 – Laying My Burdens Down 
 1971 – Willie Nelson & Family 
 1971 – Yesterday's Wine 
 1972 – The Willie Way 
 1972 – The Words Don't Fit the Picture 
 1973 – Shotgun Willie 
 1974 – Phases and Stages 
 1975 – Red Headed Stranger 
 1976 – The Sound in Your Mind 
 1976 – The Troublemaker 
 1977 – To Lefty from Willie 
 1978 – Stardust 
 1978 – Willie and Family Live 
 1979 – One for the Road 
 1979 – Pretty Paper 
 1979 – Sings Kris Kristofferson 
 1979 – The Electric Horseman 
 1980 – Honeysuckle Rose 
 1980 – San Antonio Rose 
 1981 – Somewhere over the Rainbow 
 1982 – Always On My Mind 
 1982 – Old Friends 
 1983 – Take It to the Limit 
 1983 – Tougher Than Leather 
 1983 – Without a Song 
 1984 – Music from "Songwriter" 
 1984 – Angel Eyes 
 1984 – City of New Orleans 
 1984 – Portait in Music 
 1985 – Brand on My Heart 
 1985 – Funny How Time Slips Away 
 1985 – Half Nelson 
 1985 – Me and Paul 
 1986 – Partners 
 1986 – The Promiseland 
 1987 – Island in the Sea 
 1987 – Seashores of Old Mexico 
 1988 – What a Wonderful World 
 1989 – A Horse Called Music 
 1990 – Born for Trouble 
 1992 – The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? 
 1993 – Across the Borderline 
 1994 – Moonlight Becomes You 
 1994 – Healing Hands of Time 
 1995 – Pancho, Lefty and Rudolph 
 1995 – Six Hours at Pedernales 
 1996 – Just One Love 
 1996 – Spirit 
 1996 – How Great Thou Art 
 1997 – Christmas with Willie Nelson 
 1997 – All of Me 
 1997 – Hill Country Christmas 
 1998 – Teatro 
 1999 – Night and Day 
 2000 – Clean Shirt 
 2000 – Memories of Hank Williams, Sr. 
 2000 – Me and the Drummer 
 2000 – Good Ol' Country Singin' 
 2000 – Milk Cow Blues 
 2001 – Rainbow Connection 
 2001 – Tales Out of Luck 
 2002 – The Great Divide 
 2002 – Stars & Guitars 
 2003- Run That By Me One More Time 
 2003- Picture In A Frame- Med Kimmie Rhodes 
 2004 – Live at Billy Bob's Texas 
 2004 – Outlaws and Angels 
 2004 – It Always Will Be 
 2005 – Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia 
 2005 – Countryman 
 2006 – You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker 
 2006 – Live from Austin, Texas 
 2006 – Songbird 
 2007 – Last of the Breed 
 2007 – Willie Nelson Christmas 
 2007 – Gravedigger 
 2008 – Moment of Forever 
 2008 – Two Men with the Blues

Leinkir úteftir 

 Almenn heimasíða. 
 Willie Nelson á Rolling Stone. 
 Willie Nelson á IMDb, The Internet Movie Database. 
 Willie Nelson diskografi á Discogs. 
 Heimasíðan hjá Texas Music Project.

 

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