I asked Merle, ‘Come sing on this,’ and he did," remembered Nelson as he started to revisit his 1989 song "A Horse Called ...

Country music is often viewed as conservative. Willie Nelson has a uniquely diverse audience, stemming from his liberal ...

Nelson joked that as a seven-year-old "I'd never been left by anybody, so it was kind of funny." The last you'd expect of a pot-toking, pony-tailed peacenik like Willie is enlisting in the military.

But I was only like fourteen, fifteen years old. And I got up to sing with Bob Wills! So, it was as good as it gets. Nelson ... or not. Willie moved back home to Texas in 1972. He let his hair ...