At age 90, Willie Nelson is looking back on the songs he's written across seven decades. The country legend's new book, “Energy Follows Thought,” gives the stories behind his most famous songs and some obscure ones too. Nelson was originally best known as a songwriter not a performer.
FILE - Willie Nelson performs at the Producers & Engineers Wing 12th Annual GRAMMY Week Celebration in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2019. The country legend’s new book, “Energy Follows Thought,” gives the stories behind his most famous songs. FILE - This Nov. 20, 2012 file photo shows country music legend Willie Nelson on NBC’s “Today” show in New York. The country legend’s new book, “Energy Follows Thought,” gives the stories behind his most famous songs.
Nelson actually started out as a poet of sorts. At age 6 in Depression-era Texas, he composed a verse in response to the looks he got when he picked his nose and got a nosebleed while standing in front of his church congregation. In 1961, three of his songs became hits for other artists: Billy Walker’s “Funny How Time Slips Away,” Faron Young’s “Hello Walls” and, most importantly, Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” a song that would become a signature for her and both a financial boon and an ego boost for him.
He almost seemed to retire from songwriting when fame finally came to him in the Outlaw Country era, enjoying the chance to record his favorite old standards or the compositions of hot young writers. “I don’t write as much as I used to,” he told the AP. “The ideas don’t come that quick. I still write now and then.”
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