The front cover made his ambitions clear: “Songs by Willie Nelson,” it reads, in a rough balloon lettering. Beneath that sits the cursive label “Waco, Texas”—even at eleven, the boy from ...

everything that’s good about Texas is Willie Nelson.” His biggest fan may still be former President Jimmy Carter, for whom Nelson performed Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” on the ...

Willie Nelson ... Texas, a short jog away from Abbott, the tiny farming town in which Willie was born and raised. He played his first shows in West, one in a bar that used to stand on the edge of ...

Delving into the incomparable songbook, directors Thom Zimny and Oren Moverman show how Willie Nelson ... soul. The directors visit him on his home-away-from-home tour bus, on his beloved Texas ...

Willie Nelson is the namesake of the new Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs.(Richard Shotwell / Richard Shotwell ...

Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson ... My Mind" singer has raised more than $70 million for family farm owners through Farm Aid, according to the school, which also plans to honor the ...