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Willie Nelson
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Willie Nelson Biography
There are performing artists – musicians, songwriters, actors – who exist in history, and then there are artists whose careers are history itself. For more than four decades, Willie Nelson's presence has rendered him a true cultural icon – from the breakthrough year of 1961, when three of his compositions all hit the Country & Western charts and became American standards, "Hello Walls" (by Faron Young), "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy
Walker), and "Crazy" (Patsy Cline); through the early-1970s when he, along with Waylon Jennings, Kristofferson, and Townes Van Zandt established the 'Outlaw Country' movement that forever changed the style and audience of C&W; through the late-'70s and '80s when, as a core Columbia Records artist, he charted 12 #1 Country albums (with another 12 reaching top 5); through the personal difficulties and comeback that played out as front-page news during the '90s; to his most-recent series of mega-star filled "event" albums since 2000.