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Legacy records has posted part 2 of their  15-part Willie Nelson podcast at their site at
http://blogs.legacyrecordings.com/podcast/the-willie-nelson-podcast-episode-2/

As Willie Nelson entered his mid-20s, he made a living in Nashville selling his songs to the artists who recorded them.  It may not have been the most forward-thinking plan, but it was what he needed to do the pay the rent.  Sometimes the performers would be happy to aquire the rights to their latest hit song, but there were some Nashville stars of the early 1960s looking out for Willie’s best interests.  In this episode, Nelson recalls the unique deal he struck with Faron Young for “Hello Walls” one 1961 night at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge.

We then move forward a few years when Willie left Nashville and became one of the central figures of the burgeoning Austin, TX music scene.  Singer/songwriter Ray Wyile Hubbard details how it was in those early days with other homegrown artists like Jerry Jeff Walker and BW Stephenson.  The scene also helped inspire Willie and Waylon Jennings’ “Outlaw” recordings away from Country music’s big business center in Nashville.  Willie discusses those years between clips of his best-known duets with Jennings –  “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” and “Good Hearted Woman.”

http://blogs.legacyrecordings.com/podcast/the-willie-nelson-podcast-episode-2/

www.legacyrecordings.com  

Legacy records is posting a 15-part Willie Nelson podcast at their site at http://blogs.legacyrecordings.com/podcast/the-willie-nelson-podcast  

Willie Nelson – part 1

We kick off our 15-part Willie Nelson podcast series with Willie, himself, looking back on his earliest musical experiences – his first poems and songs as a child, his first band as a teenager (with his sister, Bobbie), and his first job as a radio DJ, where he made his first recording (”When I’ve Sang My Last Hillbilly Song”). He and host Rodney Crowell also guide us through Willie’s early successes and frustrations after moving to Nashville. He wrote songs like “Crazy” that were huge hits for Patsy Cline and others, but had trouble establishing himself as a performer as he had done in Texas. Other featured songs from this time in Willie’s life include “The Party’s Over” and “The Man with the Blues.”