Claim: Willie Nelson is involved in the music industry.

`` On the Road Again '' is a song written and made famous by country music singer Willie Nelson .   The song , about life on tour , came about when the executive producer of the film Honeysuckle Rose approached Nelson about writing the song for the film 's soundtrack . `` On the Road Again '' became Nelson 's 9th Country & Western No. 1 hit overall -LRB- 6th as a solo recording act -RRB- in November 1980 , and became one of Nelson 's most recognizable tunes . In addition , the song reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart . It was his biggest pop hit to that time and won him a Grammy Award for Best Country Song a year later .