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Willie Hugh Nelson is an American entertainer and songwriter, born in April 30, 1933 and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s. Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie Nelson were raised by their grandparents after the divorce of their parents, his grandparents William Alfred Nelson and Nancy Elizabeth Smothers gave him mail-order music lessons starting at age six. Willie played the guitar, while Bobbie played the piano. While Nelson was in high school he met Bud Fletcher, a fiddler, and both siblings joined his band, Bohemian Fiddlers.

After graduation, Nelson joined the Air Force, but left due to back problems. He also attended Baylor University for one year, but eventually, he became a DJ at a country music radio station in Fort Worth, while singing locally in honky tonk bars. In 1956, Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, to begin a musical career, recording "Lumberjack," written by Leon Payne. The single sold fairly well, but ironically did not establish a career. Nelson continued to work as a radio announcer in Vancouver and sing in clubs. He sold a song called "Family Bible" for $50; the song was a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, has been covered widely and is often considered a gospel music classic.

Nelson moved to Tennessee and still unable to land a record label contract he did, however, receive a publishing contract at Pamper Music. After Ray Price recorded Nelson's "Night Life" (reputedly the most covered country song of all time), Nelson joined Price's touring band as a bass player. While playing with Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, many of Nelson's songs became hits for some of country and pop music's biggest stars of the time. These songs include "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Hello Walls" (Faron Young), "Pretty Paper" (Roy Orbison) and most famously, "Crazy" (Patsy Cline). Nelson signed with Liberty Records in 1961 and released several singles, including "Willingly" (sung with his wife, Shirley Collie) and "Touch Me."

Nelson signed Atlantic Records and released Shotgun Willie (1973), which won excellent reviews but unfortunately it was also unable to make acclaim in the public. A concept album, Phases and Stages (1974), included the hit single "Bloody Mary Morning." Nelson then moved to Columbia Records, where he was given complete creative control over his work. The result was the critically acclaimed, massively popular concept album, Red Headed Stranger (1975). Although Columbia was reluctant to release an album with primarily a guitar and piano for accompaniment, Nelson insisted (with the assistance of Waylon Jennings) and the album was a huge hit, partially because it included a popular cover of "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" written by Fred Rose in 1945.

Nelson then later on began acting, appearing in The Electric Horseman (1979), starring in Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Thief (1981), Barbarosa (1982), Red-Headed Stranger. Also in 1982 he played "Red Loon," a gulag prisoner in Out of the Ice with John Savage, Wag the Dog (1997), Gone Fishin (1997) as Billy 'Catch' Pooler, and the 1986 TV movie Stagecoach. He has continued acting since his early successes, but usually in smaller roles and cameos, such as Half Baked as an elderly "Historian Smoker" who, while smoking marijuana, would reminisce about how things used to be in his younger years; Nelson also appeared as himself in the 2006 movie Beerfest, looking for teammates to join him in a mythical world-championship marijuana-smoking contest held in Amsterdam. Nelson also made guest appearances on Miami Vice, Delta, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons, Monk, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, King of the Hill, and The Colbert Report. He played Uncle Jesse in The Dukes of Hazzard, the 2005 cinematic treatment of the television series, and was the only member of the big screen cast to reprise the role in the TV/DVD movie prequel The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007).

In 2004, Nelson and his wife Annie became partners with Bob and Kelly King in the building of two Pacific Biodiesel Plants, one in Salem, Oregon, and the other at Carl's Corner, Texas of Carl Cornelius, a long time friend. In 2005, Nelson and several other business partners formed Willie Nelson Biodiesel, a company that is marketing Biodiesel biofuel to truck stops. The fuel is made from vegetable oils, mainly soybeans, and can be burned without modification in diesel engines.

Willie Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon. His distinctive music and other social and political activities sometimes take a backseat to his pop-culture public image (firmly grounded in the acknowledged reality of his life) - that of an elderly, lifelong marijuana-smoking old-school cowboy-hippie troubadour. His image is marked by his red hair, often divided into two long braids partially concealed under a bandana. He has been featured in recent advertisements for a variety of products and companies, including The Gap.

During the controversial 2003 Texas congressional redistricting, Nelson sent a case of whiskey to the Democrats of the Texas Legislature in self-imposed exile in Ardmore, Oklahoma. An attached note read "Stand your ground." In 2005 a Democratic representative in Texas' legislature attempted to name part of a highway after Nelson, but after opposition from Willie, who did not want his name associated with the controversial toll road, and from some Republican lawmakers, the representative dropped his plan.

Nelson's touring and recording group is a collection of a number of longstanding members, including his sister Bobbie Nelson, longtime drummer Paul English, harmonicist Mickey Raphael, Bee Spears, Billy English (Paul's younger brother), and Jody Payne. Willie tours North America in his biodiesel (aka "BioWillie" - Willie Nelson Biodiesel) bus, the "Honeysuckle Rose IV." Nelson's guitar "Trigger" taken September 6, 2007 was named after Roy Rogers' horse. Its soundboard has been signed over the years by over a hundred of Nelson's friends and associates, from fellow musicians to lawyers and football coaches. It is rumored that when the guitar finally wears out beyond playability, he will permanently retire from the music business.

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