Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson: Interviews and Encounters with Willie Nelson

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Curating the most illuminating interviews with an American icon isn't easy.

Willie Nelson's words can be found everywhere: TV, radio, movies, and on the many musical recordings he is responsible for over a decadeslong career. Nelson, the last surviving member of the Highwaymen, has outlasted most of his generation of outlaw country musicians. And he is still releasing albums-and featuring on tracks with current superstars such as Beyonce. Nelson is an American institution.

This collection reveals the icon as a complex and contradictory man, elusive at times, revealing at others. Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson is a collection of interviews that illuminates him not only as a musician but as an actor, writer, political and animalrights activist, drug advocate, and environmentalist. These interviews with Nelson, many of them unseen for decades, range from the early 1970s to 2020 and are tied together by a biographical timeline and compositional history of his most beloved songs and albums. They reveal not only the life and work of Nelson but also a bevy of committed journalists, some of them amateur, whom Nelson welcomed, one and all, to share his sometimesradical worldview with an adoring public.

Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson is the definitive source for anyone wanting to authentically encounter the legend in print.

Author Bio

Paul Maher Jr. is the author of Becoming Kerouac: A Writer In His Timeas well as the editor of Miles on Miles and Tom Waits on Tom Waits among other titles. He resides in Lubec, Maine, with his wife, Caitlin.