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Willie Nelson

The "Red Headed Stranger," since the 1950's, one of country's most spectacular singers, songwriters, and all-out showmen.

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As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music. Although he didn't become a star until the mid-'70s, Nelson spent the '60s writing songs that became hits for stars like Ray Price ([roviLink="MC"]"Night Life"), Patsy Cline ([roviLink="MC"]"Crazy"), Faron Young ([roviLink="MC"]"Hello Walls"), and Billy Walker ([roviLink="MC"]"Funny How Time Slips Away") as well as releasing a series of records on Liberty and RCA that earned him a small, but devoted, cult following. During the early '70s, Willie aligned himself with Waylon Jennings and the burgeoning outlaw country movement that made him into a star in 1975. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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