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Willie Nelson, född 30 april 1933 i Abbott, Texas, USA, är en amerikansk countrysångare, gitarrist, låtskrivare och skådespelare.

Nelson blev under 1960-talet känd som låtskrivare åt artister som Patsy Cline, Faron Young och Billy Walker, men gav även ut flera egna album. Sitt stora genombrott fick han på 1970-talet, som en av förgrundsgestalterna inom outlaw country-rörelsen, med album som The Red Headed Stranger (1975) och Stardust (1978).

I mitten av 1980-talet bildade han supergruppen The Highwaymen tillsammans med Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson. Han har även samarbetat med bland andra Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Julio Iglesias och Wynton Marsalis.

Som skådespelare har Willie Nelson bland annat medverkat i filmerna The Electric Horseman (1979), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) och Surfer, Dude (2008).

Diskografi

1961 – Love & Pain 1962 – And Then I Wrote 1963 – Here's Willie Nelson 1965 – Country Willie: His Own Songs 1966 – Country Favorites, Willie Nelson Style 1966 – Live Country Music Concert 1967 – Make Way for Willie Nelson 1967 – The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs 1968 – Good Times 1968 – Texas in My Soul 1969 – My Own Peculiar Way 1970 – Both Sides Now 1970 – Laying My Burdens Down 1971 – Willie Nelson & Family 1971 – Yesterday's Wine 1972 – The Willie Way 1972 – The Words Don't Fit the Picture 1973 – Shotgun Willie 1974 – Phases and Stages 1975 – Red Headed Stranger 1976 – The Sound in Your Mind 1976 – The Troublemaker 1977 – To Lefty from Willie 1978 – Stardust 1978 – Willie and Family Live 1979 – One for the Road 1979 – Pretty Paper 1979 – Sings Kris Kristofferson 1979 – The Electric Horseman 1980 – Honeysuckle Rose 1980 – San Antonio Rose 1981 – Somewhere over the Rainbow 1982 – Always on My Mind 1982 – Old Friends 1983 – Take It to the Limit 1983 – Tougher Than Leather 1983 – Without a Song 1984 – Music from "Songwriter" 1984 – Angel Eyes 1984 – City of New Orleans 1984 – Portait in Music 1985 – Brand on My Heart 1985 – Funny How Time Slips Away 1985 – Half Nelson 1985 – Me and Paul

1986 – Partners 1986 – The Promiseland 1987 – Island in the Sea 1987 – Seashores of Old Mexico 1988 – What a Wonderful World 1989 – A Horse Called Music 1990 – Born for Trouble 1992 – The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? 1993 – Across the Borderline 1994 – Moonlight Becomes You 1994 – Healing Hands of Time 1995 – Pancho, Lefty and Rudolph 1995 – Six Hours at Pedernales 1996 – Just One Love 1996 – Spirit 1996 – How Great Thou Art 1997 – Christmas with Willie Nelson 1997 – All of Me 1997 – Hill Country Christmas 1998 – Teatro 1999 – Night and Day 2000 – Clean Shirt 2000 – Memories of Hank Williams, Sr. 2000 – Me and the Drummer 2000 – Good Ol' Country Singin' 2000 – Milk Cow Blues 2001 – Rainbow Connection 2001 – Tales Out of Luck 2002 – The Great Divide 2002 – Stars & Guitars 2003 – Run That By Me One More Time 2004 – Live at Billy Bob's Texas 2004 – Outlaws and Angels 2004 – It Always Will Be 2005 – Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia 2005 – Countryman 2006 – You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker 2006 – Live from Austin, Texas 2006 – Songbird 2007 – Last of the Breed 2007 – Willie Nelson Christmas 2007 – Gravedigger 2008 – Moment of Forever 2008 – Two Men with the Blues

Externa länkar

• Officell webbplats
• Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Willie Nelson
  Bilder & media