Willie Nelson: The Outlaw

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A dope-smoking, whisky-drinking, latter-day cowboy with Native American blood, four wives and seven children, Nelson’s career spans half a century of American music.
Nelson’s life is a journey of incredible highs and crashing lows. Awards, huge record sales, famous friends, the organising of Farm Aid, his annual Fourth of July picnics, Woodstock ’99 and the 9/11 memorial, are tempered by his mother and father’s early desertion, penury, alcoholism, three turbulent marriages, drug busts, bankruptcy, as well as his son’s suicide and an attempt at taking his own life.
The Outlaw brilliantly describes this compelling man, whose life and music reveals and reflects something fundamental at the very heart of twentieth-century America, explaining along the way why Willie Nelson is nothing short of a living legend.