Willie Nelson Biography, Age, Spouse, Children, Songs And Net Worth.

Willie Nelson Biography

Willie Nelson born Willie Hugh Nelson, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist. He was born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas, to Myrle Marie and Ira Doyle Nelson.

Nelson’s grandfather bought him a guitar when he was six, and taught him a few chords, and with his sister Bobbie, he sang gospel songs in the local church. He wrote his first song at age seven, and when he was nine, played guitar for the local band Bohemian Polka.

During high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from high school in 1950, he joined the Air Force but was later discharged due to back problems. After his return, Nelson attended Baylor University for two years but dropped out because he was succeeding in music. During this time, he worked as a disc jockey in Texas radio stations and a singer in honky-tonks.

Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he wrote “Family Bible” and recorded the song “Lumberjack” in 1956. In 1958, he moved to Houston, Texas, after signing a contract with D Records. He sang at the Esquire Ballroom weekly and he worked as a disk jockey. During that time, he wrote songs that would become country standards, including “Funny How Time Slips Away”, “Hello Walls”, “Pretty Paper”, and “Crazy”.

In 1960 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and later signed a publishing contract with Pamper Music which allowed him to join Ray Price’s band as a bassist. In 1962, he recorded his first album, …And Then I Wrote.

Nelson signed in 1964 with RCA Victor and joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year. After mid-chart hits in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Nelson retired in 1972 and moved to Austin, Texas. The ongoing music scene of Austin motivated Nelson to return from retirement, performing frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters.

In 1973, after signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson turned to outlaw country, including albums such as Shotgun Willie and Phases and Stages. In 1975, he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded the critically acclaimed album Red Headed Stranger. The same year, he recorded another outlaw country album, Wanted! The Outlaws, along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser. During the mid-1980s, while creating hit albums like Honeysuckle Rose and recording hit songs like “On the Road Again”, “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”, and “Pancho and Lefty”, he joined the country supergroup The Highwaymen, along with fellow singers Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson continued touring extensively and released albums every year.

Nelson made his first movie appearance in the 1979 film The Electric Horseman, followed by other appearances in movies and on television.

Nelson is a major liberal activist and the co-chair of the advisory board of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), which is in favor of marijuana legalization. On the environmental front, Nelson owns the bio-diesel brand Willie Nelson Biodiesel, which is made from vegetable oil. Nelson is also the honorary chairman of the Advisory Board of the Texas Music Project, the official music charity of the state of Texas.

Willie Nelson Age

He was born on April 29, 1933.

Willie Nelson Wife and Children

Willie Nelson has married four times His first marriage was to Martha Matthews; it lasted from 1952 to 1962. The couple had three children: Lana, Susie and Willie Hugh, Jr.

His second marriage was to Shirley Collie in 1963. The couple divorced in 1971 after Collie found a bill from the maternity ward of a Houston hospital charged to Nelson and Connie Koepke for the birth of Paula Carlene Nelson.

Koepke and Nelson married in 1971, then had another daughter, Amy Lee Nelson. Following a divorce in 1988, he married his current wife, Annie D’Angelo, in 1991. They have two sons, Lukas Autry and Jacob Micah.

Willie Nelson Albums

Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie – Willie’s Stash, Vol. 1: December Day
To All the Girls
Let’s Face the Music and Dance
Heroes
Remember Me, Vol. 1
Willie Nelson – Icon
Run That By Me One More Time
Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles
In Defense: Vol 1 The Civil Liberties Defense Center
Country Music
American Classic
Lost Highway
Naked Willie
Willie And The Wheel
One Hell Of A Ride
Moment Of Forever
Two Men With The Blues
16 Biggest Hits, Volume 2
Songbird
You Don’t Know Me: The Songs Of Cindy Walker
Countryman
Songs For Tsunami Relief: Austin To South Asia
Songs
It Always Will Be
Outlaws And Angels
Live At Billy Bob’s Texas
Nacogdoches
Live And Kickin’
The Essential Willie Nelson
Crazy: The Demo Sessions
Willie Nelson & Friends Stars & Guitars
All Of Me- Live In Concert
The Great Divide
Rainbow Connection
Good Ol’ Country Singin’
Milk Cow Blues
Tales Out Of Luck (Me And The Drummer)
Night And Day
Teatro
16 Biggest Hits
How Great Thou Art
Spirit
Willie Standard Time
Augusta
Revolution Of Time…The Journey 1975/1993
Just One Love
Super Hits, Volume 2
Moonlight Becomes You
Six Hours At Pedernales
Healing Hands Of Time
Super Hits
Across The Borderline
Any Old Arms Won’t Do
The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?
Yours Always
Born For Trouble
A Horse Called Music
What A Wonderful World
Island In The Sea
Partners
The Promiseland
Me And Paul
Half Nelson
City Of New Orleans
Angel Eyes
Take It To The Limit
Tougher Than Leather
Without A Song
Always On My Mind
The Best Of Willie Nelson
20 Of The Best
Minstrel Man
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)
The Electric Horseman
Honeysuckle Rose
Family Bible
Sings Kristofferson
Pretty Paper
Sweet Memories
One For The Road
There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight
Stardust
Willie And Family Live
Face Of A Fighter
To Lefty From Willie
Willie- Before His Time
The Sound In Your Mind
The Longhorn Jamboree Presents: Willie Nelson & His Friends
The Troublemaker
Willie Nelson Live
Red Headed Stranger
Spotlight On Willie Nelson
Phases And Stages
Country Winners
Shotgun Willie
The Words Don’t Fit The Picture
The Willie Way
Willie Nelson and Family
Yesterday’s Wine
Both Sides Now
Laying My Burdens Down
Columbus Stockade Blues
Good Times
My Own Peculiar Way
Texas In My Soul
Make Way For Willie Nelson
The Party’s Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs
Country Favorites – Willie Nelson Style
Country Music Concert
Country Willie – His Own Songs
Here’s Willie Nelson
And Then I Wrote

Songs Written by Willie Nelson – Willie Nelson Songs

A Moment Isn’t Very Long
Ain’t It Funny How Time Slips Away
Alice in Hulaland (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
Albania Albania
Always Now
American Dream (co-written With Bob Dylan)
Amnesia
And So Will You My Love
Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
Annie
Any Old Arms Won’t Do (co-written With Hank Cochran)
Are You Ever Coming Home (co-written With Hank Cochran)
Are You Sure (co-written With Buddy Emmons)
Ashamed
Au Jardin De Mes Reves (Albert Babin, rearranged)
Bach Minuet In G (rearranged)
Back On The Road (co-written With Nathan Mackey)
Back to Earth
Baja Oklahoma (co-written With Dan Jenkins)
Band of Brothers
Bandera
Bird (co-written With Robert Braddock, Hal Coleman, Barry Etris, Claude Putman, Jr. And John Bush Shinn III)
Bird Medley
Blame It On The Times
Bloody Mary Morning
Blue Rock Montana
Both Ends Of The Candle
Broken Promise
Bring it On
Buddy
Changing Skies
Christmas Blues (co-written With Booker Jones)
“Christmas Prayer
Cling To The Spark
Cold Empty Spark
Come On Back Jesus
Congratulations
Country Willie
Crazy
Cry Softly Darling
Crying In The Heart
Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
Darling Are You Ever Coming Home
December Day
Denver
Devil In A Sleeping Bag
Did I Ever Love You
Do Your Thing You’re A Cowboy
Don’t Say Love Or Nothing
Down At The Corner Beer Joint
Dream Come True
Driving the Herd (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
Ehrbares Madchen
El Niño
Electric Horseman
Eleven Dixie Mudcats
End Of Understanding
Everybody’s Baby
Everybody’s Talking At Me
Everything But You
Everywhere I go
Face of a Fighter
Family Bible
Follow Me Around
Following Me Around
Forgiving You Was Easy
Funny
Funny How Time Slips Away
Ghost
Go Away
Goin’ Home
Good Hearted Woman (co-written With Waylon Jennings)
Good Times
Guitar in the Corner
Great Divide
Half a Man
Half Black Half Leopard
Happiness Lives Next Door
Hard Edge Texas (co-written With Kris Kristofferson)
He’s Not For You
Healing Hands Of Time
Heartaches Of A Fool
Heartland
Heaven And Hell
Heebie Jeebie Blues No. 2
Hej Meddig
Hello Darling
Hello Fool
Hello Wall Number 2
Hello Walls
Hero
Hint Of Song
Hold Me Tighter
Home Is Where You’re Happy
Home Motel
Homecoming In Heaven
Hot Blooded Woman
Hot Time In Music City Blues
How Does It Feel
How Long Is Forever
I Am The Forest
I Can Cry Again
I Can Get Off On You
I Can Still Reach Yesterday
I Can’t Find The Time
I Didn’t Sleep A Wink
I Don’t Feel Anything
I Don’t Know Where I Am Today
I Don’t Understand
I Feel Sorry For Him
I Gotta Get Drunk
I Guard The Canadian Border
I Guess I Ve Come To Live Here
I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye
I Just Don’t Understand
I Just Stopped By
I Let My Mind Wander
I Live One Day At A Time
I Never Cared For You
I Should Have Kissed Her More
I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone
I Thought About You
I Thought I Left You
I Want A Girl
I Want To Be Alone
I Write You Letters
I’d Already Cheated On You
I’d Rather You Didn’t Love Me
I’ll Stay Around
I’m A Memory
I’m Building Heartaches
I’m Falling In Love Again
I’m Gonna Lose A Lot Of Teardrops
I’m Not Trying To Forget You
I’m So Ashamed
I’m Still Not Over You
I’m Waiting forever
I’ve Got A Wonderful Future
I’ve Just Destroyed The World
I’ve Loved You All Over The World
I’ve Seen All This World
If You Could Only See
If You Really Loved Me
In God’s Eyes
In The Car Again
Is The Better Part Over
Is There Something On Your Mind
Island In The Sea
It Could Be Said That Way
It Should Be Easier Now
It’s A Dream Come True
It’s Not For Me To Understand
It’s Not Supposed To Be That Way
It’s Only Money (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
Jimmy’s Road
Jingle Bells (James Pierpont, rearranged)
Just As I Am (Charlotte Elliott, William B. Bradbury)
Just For The Moment
Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus
Laying My Burdens Down
Laws of Nature
Lear And A Limo (co-written With Mickey Raphael)
Leave Alone
Let Me Be A Man
Let My Heart Be Broken
Let’s Pretend We’re Strangers
Little Old Fashioned Karma
Little Things
Local Memory
Loco
London
Lonely Little Mansion
Looking For A Place To Fall (co-written With Merle Haggard And Freddy Powers)
Makin’s Of A Song (co-written With Max Barnes, Waylon Jennings And Troy Seals)
Man With the Blues
Mariachi
Matador
Me And Paul
Mean Old Greyhound Bus
Message
Misery Mansion
More Than One Way To Cry
Mr. Record Man
My Kind Of Girl
My Love
My Love For The Rose
My Own Peculiar Way
New Way To Cry
Night Life
No Love Around
No Place For Me
No Tomorrow In Sight
Nobody Said It Was Going To Be Easy
Nobody Slides My Friend
O’er The Waves (Juventino Rosas, rearranged)
Old Age And Treachert
On the Road Again
On The Road Too Long
Once Along
One Day At A Time
One In A Row
One Step Beyond
Opportunity To Cry
Our Chain Of Love
Over You Again
Pages
Part Where I Cry
The Party’s Over
Permanently Lonely
Pet Wrangler
Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles
Pick Up The Pieces
Pick Up The Tempo
Place To Fall Apart (co-written With Merle Haggard And Freddy Powers)
Precious Memories
Pretend I Never Happened
Pretty Paper
Pride Wins Again
Promises Promises
Pullamo
Rainy Day Blues
Raysha’s Theme
Remember The Good Times
Ridge Top
Right From Wrong
Road Happy (co-written With Dolly Parton)
Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
Run Jody Run
Sad Songs And Waltzes
Save Your Tears
Send Me a Picture
Shall We Gather
She Always Comes Back To Me
She Is Gone
She Might Call
She’s Gone (co-written With Fred Foster)
She’s Not For You
She’s Still Gone (Shirley Nelson)
Shelter Of My Arms
Shotgun Willie
Sister’s Coming Home
Sit On My Lap
Sitting Here In Limbo
Slow Down Old World
So Much To Do
So You Think You’re A Cowboy
Solidarity
Some Other Time
Somebody Pick Up My Pieces
Someone Waiting For You
Something To Think About
Sometimes She Lies (Harlan Howard, rearranged)
Somewhere In Texas
Songwriter
Sorrow Tearing Me Apart
Sound In Your Mind
Spirit I-iii
Spirit Of E Nine
Stage Coach Score (co-written With David Alan Coe)
Still Is Still Moving To Me
Storm Has Just Begun
Storm Within My Heart
Suffer In Silence
Summer Of Roses
Sweet Bye And Bye
Take My Advice (co-written With David Alan Coe)
Take My Word
Talk To Me
Tell It To Jesus
Texas
That’s What Children Are For
That’s Why I Love Her
The Wall
There Are Worse Things Than Be
There Goes A Man
There Is A Fountain
There Is No Easy Way
There Shall Be Showers Of Blessings
There’s A Way
There’s Gonna Be Love In My Home
There’s No Tomorrow In Sight
There’s Worse Things Than Being Alone
These Are Difficult Times
They’re All The Same
Things To Remember
Three Days
Time Of The Preacher
To Make A Long Story Short (She’s Gone)
Today’s Gonna Make A Wonderful
Too Sick To Pray
Too Young To Settle Down (co-written With Jack Rhodes)
Touch Me
Tougher Than Leather
Truth Will Set You Free
Turn Out The Lights (co-written By Hank Craig)
Twice The Man (co-written With Edwin Griens And Maribeth Murray)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Two Different Roads (Hank Cochran, Jan Crutchfield; rearranged)
Two Sides To Every Story
Two Stories Wide
Uncloudy Day
Under The Double Eagle
Undo The Right (co-written With Hank Cochran)
Used to Her
Valentine
Vir Ewig Is Ek Joune
Waiting Forever For You
Waiting Time
Wake Me When It’s Over
Walking
Wanted On Mother (co-written With Harlan Howard)
Wasted/Revenge
We Don’t Run
We Look For Love
We Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way
What a Way to Live
What Can You Do To Me Now (co-written With Hank Cochran)
What Do You Think Of Her Now (co-written With Hank Cochran)
What Do You Want Me To Do
What Right Have I
When I’ve Sung My Last Hillbilly
When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
When We Live Again
Where Do You Stand
Where Dreams Come to Die (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
Where My House Lives
Where’s The Show
Whiskey River (by Johnny Bush, Paul Stroud)
White Cadillac Convertible Blue
Who Do I Know In Dallas (co-written With Hank Cochran)
Who’ll Buy My Memories (co-written With Eddie Noack)
Why Are You Picking On Me
Why Do I Have To Choose
Wilie Tuning
Will You Remember
Will You Remember Mine
Within Your Crowd
Wives and Girlfriends
Wonderful Future
Words Don’t Fit The Picture
Write Your Own Song
Yesterday’s Wine
You Don’t Think I’m Funny Anymore
You Dream About Me
You Left A Long Long Time Ago
You Memory Won’t Die
You Ought To Hear Me Cry
You Took My Happiness Away
You’ll Always Have Someone (co-written With Hank Cochran)
Your Country Boy
You Wouldn’t Cross The Street

Willie Nelson Net Worth

His net worth is estimated to be $25 million.

Willie Nelson Biography, Age, Spouse, Children, Songs And Net Worth.