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Willie Nelson Fun Facts
Friday, May 5th, 2017
www.cnn.com
(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Grammy Award winning musician Willie Nelson.
Personal:
Birth date: April 30, 1933
Birth place: Abbott, Texas
Birth name: Willie Hugh Nelson
Father: Ira Nelson
Mother: Myrle (Greenhaw) Harvey
Marriages: Ann Marie D’Angelo (1991-present); Connie Koepke (1971-1988, divorced); Shirley Collie (1963-1971, divorced); Martha Matthews (1952-1962, divorced)
Children: with Ann Marie D’Angelo: Micah and Lukas; with Connie Koepke: Amy and Paula; with Martha Matthews: Billy (died in 1991), Susie, Lana; with Mary Haney: Renee
Education: Attended Baylor University, 1954
Military: US Air Force, 1950, medical discharge
Other Facts:
Raised by his grandparents.
Sold encyclopedias door-to-door and taught Sunday school.
Has collaborated with Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Lee Ann Womack, Rob Thomas and Snoop Dogg, among others.
Has a fifth-degree black belt in GongKwon YuSul.
Nominated for 49 Grammy Awards and won eight, including a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nominated for one Academy Award.
Composed the song “Crazy,” which was made famous by singer Patsy Cline.
Is on the advisory board of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Timeline:
1957 – Releases his first single, “No Place for Me.”
1960 – Moves to Nashville.
1962 – Releases his first album, “And Then I Wrote.”
1970 – Moves back to Texas.
1973 – Holds the first annual Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic in Texas.
1975 – Wins a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain.”
1978 – Wins a Grammy, with Waylon Jennings, for Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group for “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys.”
1978 – Wins a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for “Georgia On My Mind.”
1979 – Makes his acting debut, alongside Robert Redford, in the film, “The Electric Horseman.”
1980 – Wins a Grammy for Best Country Song for writing “On The Road Again.”
1980 – Stars in the film “Honeysuckle Rose.”
1982 – Wins a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for “Always On My Mind.”
1982 – Stars in the film “Barbarosa.”
1985 – Releases the album “Highwayman” with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson.
1985 – Organizes Farm Aid, a concert to benefit family farmers.
1988 – Releases his memoir, “Willie: An Autobiography.”
1990 – The IRS seizes Nelson’s property and possessions to settle a $16.7 million tax debt.
1991 – Nelson releases the album, “The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?” Nelson gives the profits from the album to the IRS.
1991 – Nelson’s son, Billy, commits suicide.
1993 – Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
1994 – Is arrested for possession of marijuana. The case is later dismissed.
2000 – The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presents Nelson with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
2002 – Wins a Grammy, with Lee Ann Womack, for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for “Mendocino County Line.”
2002 – Releases the book, “The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes.”
2006 – Releases the book, “The Tao of Willie.”
2006 – In Louisiana, Nelson is issued a citation for possession of marijuana and illegal mushrooms. Nelson receives six months’ probation and pays a fine.
2007 – Wins a Grammy, with Ray Price, for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for “Lost Highway.”
2010 – Is charged with marijuana possession after US Border Patrol agents search his tour bus in Texas near the US-Mexico border.
2012 – Releases the book, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road.”
2013 – Nelson donates his collection of awards and personal items to the University of Texas at Austin’s Briscoe Center.
July 9, 2015 – The Library of Congress announces Nelson as the latest recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
July 2016 – Nelson launches “Willie’s Reserve,” his own personal brand of marijuana that will be grown and sold wherever it’s legal. The brand will feature “high quality strains of marijuana,” and Nelson himself will work with “master growers” and local retailers to establish a set of “quality standards” for his special reserve.
February 12, 2017 – Wins a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, for “Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin.”
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Happy Birthday, Willie Nelson, and thanks for everything
Saturday, April 29th, 2017
“Good Hearted Woman” — Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings
Monday, March 13th, 2017
Willie Nelson & Family at the Strawberry Festival
Friday, March 10th, 2017
In 2017, at age 83, Willie Nelson sold out the Florida Strawberry Festival. pic.twitter.com/OQBBoevP6l
— Jose Lozoya (@JoseeLozoyaa) March 4, 2017
Willie Nelson at the Palomino
Monday, March 6th, 2017
Thanks to Lisa Guilin, for sharing these classic photos, from the Palomino
The sign outside the squat rental hall reads Le Monge, an odd faux-French touch for a North Hollywood neighborhood that never had any pretensions, not even when music’s elite came cruising past the liquor stores and auto body shops lining this stretch of Lankershim Boulevard. Back then the low-slung building was the Palomino, aka the Pal, a honky-tonk that would reign for more than 40 years as L.A.’s top country spot. Now it’s just a banquet facility that’s seen better days.
During the Pal’s prime, from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s, such country icons as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Hoyt Axton, Kitty Wells, George Jones, Charley Pride, and Ernest Tubb played the foot-high stage, sweating under the hot lights, the audience inches from their feet. Emmylou Harris sang with a band that included Elvis Presley’s guitarist James Burton and his pianist Glen Hardin. The Flying Burrito Brothers, who were fronted by country-rock artist Gram Parsons, entertained on Monday nights. (The hard-living Parsons, whose mix of country, blues, and folk influenced a generation of musicians, was beaten up one night by a group of rowdy marines.) The crowd was just as star studded. Jerry Lee Lewis was a fixture. Linda Ronstadt had a boyfriend, Jerry Brown, who was let in for free but insisted on paying the cover. Liza Minnelli was a fan of Tony Booth, the leader of the house band, the Palomino Riders. Hugh Hefner often arrived with his teenage companion, Barbi Benton.
The Pal was born in 1949, the baby of Hank Penny, a renowned radio and TV personality, bandleader, musician, and songwriter. He and business partner Amand Gautier had owned a successful club and were looking to start another. Penny happened upon the Lankershim building. The rent was cheap at $200 a month, and it didn’t bother the pair that the previous three tenants had failed. But the place’s name, the Mule Kick, didn’t sit well with Penny, who subsequently dubbed it the World Famous Palomino. He erected a massive neon sign, a rearing bronco balanced in an upturned horseshoe, which was visible for miles against the Valley’s night sky until its dismantling in 1995. Penny ran a respectable club, insisting that cowboys remove their hats when they entered the building. If they refused, Tiny, the enormous bouncer, escorted them out. By all accounts the club was a hit, but Penny had taken on so many outside commitments that he decided he had to let it go.
The club’s second owner, Tommy Thomas, was the Palomino’s P.T. Barnum. He and brother Billy took over the lease in the early ’50s and bought the building soon after. Thomas spent nearly a decade casually hewing to Penny’s model, save with a greater emphasis on the drinking. In 1959, his only local competitor, the Riverside Rancho, closed. A much larger venue, the Rancho had maintained a stranglehold on the country music headliners. Now Thomas owned the premier stage. He chose acts not because he loved their music—he wanted performers who could fill the house. He knew better than anyone in the business how to take a cultural obsession and turn it into money. Inside, posters advertising the night’s lineup were hand drawn with fluorescent paint and illuminated by little black lights. They would be replaced regularly, but the staples accumulated, the walls so thickly studded with sharp metal that it was unwise to lean against them. In those days just about everyone at the packed club smoked. When the back door opened, smoke billowed out in waves that made it look as if the building were on fire.
This day in Willie Nelson history: Host of Saturday Night Live (February 21, 1987)
Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Willie Nelson delivers the opening monologue as host ofSaturday Night Live on Feb. 21, 1987.
Willie Nelson (center) appears in the “Church Chat” skit with Danny DeVito, Nora Dunn and Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 21, 1987.
