description: Willie Nelson has always been, first and foremost, a writer and a storyteller. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, before he became a star in his own right, he made his living selling his lyrics to other musicians, for songs such as "Night Life, " "Hello Walls, " and "Crazy, " made famous by Patsy Cline.At sixty-eight, he is still playing over two hundred sold-out shows a year to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Traveling between shows on his bus, The Honeysuckle Rose, he usually writes his songs bu recently, he devoted himself instead to writing his book. Whether chronicling his own life -- from his childhood in rural Texas to breaking into the Nashville scene and breaking out -- or reflecting on the things that matter most to him, this is the real Willie Nelson: warm, funny, and honest. And whenever things threaten to get too serious, there's always another dirty joke.
language: English
title: The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes: Reflections from a Life on the Road
titlecomplete: The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes: Reflections from a Life on the Road
genres: Biography, Music, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Autobiography, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 593
publisher: Random House Audio Voices