11/9/2022 0 Comments Willie nelson god's problem child![]() After his Ridgetop, Tennessee ranch burned to the ground and his second marriage ended in acrimony, Willie returned to Texas, specifically, Austin, in 1975. Songwriting royalties had made Willie financially solvent, but artistic success still eluded him. The Nashville establishment viewed them as outlaws and outliers. Willie and his pals eschewed the glitter and glamour, opting for jeans and increasingly longer hair. Throughout the ‘60s, Music City was wall-to-wall big hair, sequins and rhinestones. He continued to earn his keep as a songwriter, and it was around this time that he fell in with like-minded songwriter-musicians like Kris Kristofferson, Dottie West and Waylon Jennings. His debut album was released in 1962 and was soundly ignored by the Nashville establishment, and the world at large. Relocating to Nashville in 1960, he signed a deal with a publisher and pretty soon, established artists like Faron Young, Patsy Cline and Roy Orbison scored number one hits with “Hello Walls,” “Crazy” and “Pretty Paper.” But Willie wanted to record and perform his own music. He sold his first couple of songs, “Family Bible” and “Night Life” to a local musician for a combined total of $200.00 He was a disc jockey by day and a working musician at night, but initially, he gained recognition as a songwriter. He wrote first song at age seven, by 10, he was fronting his own band.įollowing a stint in the Air Force, Willie worked as a disc jockey, bouncing from Fort Worth to Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington before returning to the Lone Star State. Raised by his grandparents, he exhibited an affinity for music early on. ![]() He was born in Abbott, Texas in April 1933, the height of the Great Depression. ![]() No two ways about it, Willie Nelson is a fucking force of nature. That’s Willie Nelson, happy to spend another day above ground on “Still Not Dead,” a new song on his 72nd (!) studio album, God’s Problem Child. ![]() There's a tribute by Gary Nicholson for the late Merle Haggard "He Won't Ever Be Gone," the metaphor of a "Butterfly" (Sonny Throckmorton and Mark Sherrill), the reflective, outstanding "Old Timer" by "Funky" Donnie Fritts and Lenny LeBlanc as well as seven songs Willie wrote with his producer Buddy Cannon, "Lady Luck" will you take waltzing, but it's two of the slower songs that will catch your attention, the superb, instant classic, hard-to-get-over-a-lost-love "Your Memory Has A Mind Of Its Own," a brilliant reworking of "Love Has A Mind Of Its Own" and the sorrowful adaptation of getting old, "It Gets Easier.“I woke up still not dead again today, the news said I was gone to my dismay/Don’t bury me, I’ve got a show to play, and I woke up still not dead again today.” It's not just the title track, "God's Problem Child," a song written by Jamey Johnson and Tony Joe White, who both join Willie together with the late Leon Russell, that will lure you in. Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson who with "GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD" released his best album in almost two decades, not counting his collaboration albums with Ray Price, Kimmie Rhodes, and Wynton Marsalis. ![]()
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