Happy Birthday Willie Nelson
Wednesday April 30, 2008
Categories: Ah, Texas
A great Texan, a great American, is 75 today. From the Texas Monthly oral history of Willie Nelson's life: BILLY JOE SHAVER At the Dripping Springs Reunion [in 1972], there were all kinds of mixtures of things and that was...
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I've always loved country music. It's my favorite. Willie Nelson? I don't get it. I can't get past his voice to listen to him. He might be a good songwriter, but his voice sucks. The old man and still a hippie thing is kind of cool.
Happy Birthday, Willie.
Willie always had the best reefer in the room, too.
happy birthday
my hero in the day of few people to look up to
Unlike the Japanese, we don't have official national treasures.
Willie is one. And it's not just country. He can do the standards, too. Listen to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
Happy Birthday, you crazy old pot-smokin' genius.
Listen to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
Puh-leeze!! I'm in pain. AWHOOOO!!
Willie is great. I have many of his tunes, but I'm really partial to Ride 'em Jewboy. Willie, I'm with you boy.
Who else could have written the song "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" and actually gotten it released with a video?!
Happy Birthday Willie, and many more!
Happy birthday to Willie!
Allen, do you think Willie's gay? Or was he just pandering?
Are those really the only two options you can conceive of, not-a-cowboy?
No, I certainly don't have any reason to think Willie Nelson is gay, nor do I have any reason to think he's "pandering" to anyone. Country music isn't exactly a hotbed of queer political activism.
"I always heard that his herb was top shelf
I just could not wait to find out for myself
Don't knock it til' you tried it, Well I tried it my friend
And I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
I learned a hard lesson in a small Texas town
He fired up a fat boy and passed him around
The last words that I spoke before they tucked me in
Was I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My party's all over before it begins
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again"
Happy birthday, Willie, and thanks, Rod, for posting this.
I can't wait to get on the road again.
Apart from being a recreational drug advocate, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and a far-left Kucinich supporter, I guess he's a great guy?
Allen:
Country music isn't exactly a hotbed of queer political activism.
That's understatement that would leave English gentry doffing their caps in admiration. I needed a hearty laugh today--thanks!
Oh, and Willie did a cover of "Ride 'em Jewboy"? Cool! Links, please!
Apart from being a recreational drug advocate, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and a far-left Kucinich supporter, I guess he's a great guy?
You forgot tax cheat.
Look, Louis Armstrong was a pothead who was addicted to laxatives. Winston Churchill was a drunk. Somehow, their greatness and humanity shone through, and defined them. I know it's just me, but to put down Willie Nelson, in my book, says more about the person who spites him than it does about Willie. Not sure why that is, but that's how I feel.
Lest my comments about Willie be misconstrued, having the best weed in the room is a good thing. Legalize it now. Our drug laws were antiquated last century. Bill Buckley had it right, too.
Good on ya, Willie. Many more! How 'bout an Organic Farm-Aid this year??
I know a few people who can't stand Willie. For myself, I love listening to his music. I disagree on much of what he advocates, but that doesn't distract from his music (for me anyway). Heck, there are even some Jane Fonda movies I like and will watch despite her politics and that she doesn't really impress me as an actress. "Electric Horseman" comes to mind. Hey, wasn't Willie in that? He sang too!
I really like Willie's acting to. I think "Barbarosa" is very under rated.
Ride'em Jewboy is on the CD called Why The Hell Not... The Songs Of Kinky Friedman. You can get it from iTunes or Amazon. I'm not savvy enough with my computer to put up a link. Maybe someday.
Apart from being a recreational drug advocate... I guess he's a great guy?
Does advocating the legalization of a plant that has far less deleterious effects than legal alcohol or many prescription drugs make one less of a "great guy"?
I suppose I could really care less about the pot thing. It's the 9/11 conspiracy stuff and his involvement with the craziest of left-wing kook politicians that bothers me.
Don:
That works fine--thanks!
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