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• 姓名：willie nelson
• 性别：男
• 别名：暂无
• 国籍：美国
• 语言：英语;
• 出生地：美国克萨斯州
• 生日：1933
• 星座：暂无
• 身高：暂无
• 体重：暂无

willie nelson简介：70年代中期，纳尔逊身不由己地成为了以得克萨斯、奥斯丁为中心在身边发展起来的一个乡村-套滚“运动”带头人。他和他的各声是乡村音乐的主流，但他的重要性主要是体现在他与纳什维尔商业中心的抗衡上。
纳尔逊于1933年3月30日出生在得克萨斯的阿伯特，在后摇滚乡村音乐中扮演了一个非常重要的角色。虽然他在70年代中期开始成名，但是他在60年代就与当时已经成名的歌星雷.普赖斯（Price, Ray）合作了《夜生活》（Nightlife）、与帕齐.克莱茵（Patsy Cline）合作了《疯狂》（Crazy）、与法龙.扬（Faron Young）合作了《你好，沃尔斯》（Hello Walls）和与比利.沃克（Billy Walker）合作了《可笑，时间怎么悄然逝去》（Funny how Time Slips Away）等作品，并且在Liberty和RCA公司出版了一系列唱片，如在Liberty公司出版了热门歌曲《触摸我》（Touch Me）。1965年，他又来到RCA，推出了两首同样出名的歌：《晚会已结束》（The Party's Over）和《再次动情》（Once More with Feeling），虽然没有获得多少成功，但也培养了一批追随者。
70年代初，他与威龙·詹宁斯（Jennings, Waylon）一起，印发了“亡命徒乡村音乐”（outlaw Country）运动的出现。并在70年代中期一跃成为乡村明星。随后通过成功的专辑《红发怪人》（The Red headed Stranger）和歌曲《在雨中哭泣的蓝眼睛》(Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain），使它博得了流行音乐圈的认可。
随后，为了时间和发展他在乡村音乐主题上独成一体的风格，他先后加入到Monument和Atlantic唱片公司。在monument公司的失败使他很快转入到RCA公司。在RCA公司，他出版的单曲也只能产生小范围的影响，在排行榜的最高位置也只有《带给我阳光》（Bring Me Sunshine,1969），最后他不得不离开RCA公司。商业上的失败使他感到失望，于是他决定退出乡村乐坛，回到了奥斯叮在奥斯丁，他发现摇滚歌迷和传统的下等酒吧音乐听众都是很喜爱乡村音乐的，他看到了机会，于是重返乐坛。纳尔逊摈弃了流行的纳什维尔的声音和形象，取而代之的是受摇滚和民歌影响的“红脖子摇滚”（redneck）的亡命徒形象，这一改变果然奏效，不久他便赢得了Atlantic公司的一份合同。
《快枪威利》（Shotgun Willie, 1973）是纳尔逊在Atlantic公司的第1张专辑，从中能看出他在风格上开始转变，尽管专辑最终卖得不是很好，但却赢得了评论界的好评并立即赢得了忠实的追随者。1973年秋，他翻唱了一首鲍勃.威尔斯（Bob Wills）的《坚持一夜（坚持一会儿）》[Stay All Night(Stay a Little Longer]，进入了乡村排行榜的前40名。第2年，他又出版了一张概念专辑《阶段和进展》（Phases and Stages），出现了两首热门歌曲《血腥玛丽的上午》（Bloody Mary Morning）和《火熄灭之后》（After the Fire Is Gone）。但是纳尔逊在商业上的真正突破是他1975年由Atlantic公司转到Columbia公司之后，在创作上，Columbia给了纳尔逊完全的自由，在Columbia公司出版的第1张专辑是《红头怪人》,这张专辑只有他的一把吉他和他姐姐的钢琴。公司对这样刻板的编曲也只好勉强同意出版，但其中翻唱罗伊.阿库夫（Roy acuff）的《在雨中哭泣的蓝眼睛》却成了大热门歌曲。
随着《红头怪人》的商业成功以及威龙.詹宁斯在亡命徒乡村音乐上的同时成功，这种乡村音乐已成为纳什为户尔音乐的新境界，成了当时的一个热点。RCA公司也不失时机地把纳尔逊、詹宁斯等人早先在该公司录制的歌曲汇编成一张《通缉：亡命徒》（Wanted: The Outlaws）出版。这张集锦唱片吹嘘说其中的《好心女人》（Good Heated Woman）是纳尔逊和詹宁斯在近期录制的。
在随后的5年间，纳尔逊的歌曲连续不断地出现在乡村和流行音乐的排行榜上，最成功的要数1978年，这一年，他有两张截然不同的专辑出现在排行榜上，一张是他与詹宁斯合作的首张专辑《威龙和威利》（Waylon and Willie），包括最为成功的单曲《妈妈别让你的孩子长大后成为牛仔》（Mammas Don't let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys）；另一张是纳尔逊演艺生涯中非常规性的流行音乐专辑，但却意想不到地成为他最成功的专辑，在乡村排行榜上停留了近10年之久，卖掉了400万张。
在《星尘》的成功之后，纳尔逊涉足电影界，在1979、1980年先后出演了《电子骑手》和《忍冬玫瑰》两部电影。稍后，《忍冬玫瑰》中的单曲《再次上路》（On the Road Again）成为纳尔逊另一首热门歌曲。
As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music. Although he didn't become a star until the mid-'70s, Nelson spent the '60s writing songs that became hits for stars like Ray Price ("Night Life"), Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Faron Young ("Hello Walls"), and Billy Walker ("Funny How Time Slips Away") as well as releasing a series of records on Liberty and RCA that earned him a small, but devoted, cult following. During the early '70s, Willie aligned himself with Waylon Jennings and the burgeoning outlaw country movement that made him into a star in 1975. Following the crossover success of that year's The Red Headed Stranger and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," Nelson was a genuine star, as recognizable in pop circles as he was to the country audience; in addition to recording, he also launched an acting career in the early '80s. Even when he was a star, Willie never played it safe musically. Instead, he borrowed from a wide variety of styles, including traditional pop, Western swing, jazz, traditional country, cowboy songs, honky tonk, rock & roll, folk, and the blues, creating a distinctive, elastic hybrid. Nelson remained at the top of the country charts until the mid-'80s, when his lifestyle — which had always been close to the outlaw clichés with which his music flirted — began to spiral out of control, culminating in an infamous battle with the IRS in the late '80s. During the '90s, Nelson's sales never reached the heights that he had experienced a decade earlier, but he remained a vital icon in country music, having greatly influenced the new country, new traditionalist, and alternative country movements of the '80s and '90s as well as leaving behind a legacy of classic songs and recordings.
Nelson began performing music as a child growing up in Abbott, TX. After his father died and his mother ran away, Nelson and his sister Bobbie were raised by their grandparents, who encouraged both children to play instruments. Willie picked up the guitar, and by the time he was seven, he was already writing songs. Bobbie learned to play piano, eventually meeting — and later marrying — fiddler Bud Fletcher, who invited both of the siblings to join his band. Nelson had already played with Raychecks' Polka Band, but with Fletcher, he acted as the group's frontman. Willie stayed with Fletcher throughout high school. Upon his graduation, he joined the Air Force but had to leave shortly afterward, when he became plagued by back problems. Following his disenrollment from the service, he began looking for full-time work. After he worked several part-time jobs, he landed a job as a country DJ at Fort Worth's KCNC in 1954. Nelson continued to sing in honky tonks as he worked as a DJ, deciding to make a stab at recording career by 1956. That year, he headed to Vancouver, WA, where he recorded Leon Payne's "Lumberjack." At that time, Payne was a DJ and he plugged "Lumberjack" on the air, which eventually resulted in sales of 3,000 — a respectable figure for an independent single, but not enough to gain much attention. For the next few years, Willie continued to DJ and sing in clubs. During this time, he sold "Family Bible" to a guitar instructor for 50 dollars, and when the song became a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, Nelson decided to move to Nashville the following year to try his luck. Though his nasal voice and jazzy, off-center phrasing didn't win him many friends — several demos were made and then rejected by various labels — his songwriting ability didn't go unnoticed, and soon Hank Cochran helped Willie land a publishing contract at Pamper Music. Ray Price, who co-owned Pamper Music, recorded Nelson's "Night Life" and invited him to join his touring band, the Cherokee Cowboys, as a bassist.
Arriving at the beginning of 1961, Price's invitation began a watershed year for Nelson. Not only did he play with Price — eventually taking members of the Cherokee Cowboys to form his own touring band — but his songs also provided major hits for several other artists. Faron Young took "Hello Walls" to number one for nine weeks, Billy Walker made "Funny How Time Slips Away" into a Top 40 country smash, and Patsy Cline made "Crazy" into a Top Ten pop crossover hit. Earlier in the year, he signed a contract with Liberty Records and began releasing a series of singles that were usually drenched in strings. "Willingly," a duet with his then-wife Shirley Collie, became a Top Ten hit for Nelson early in 1962, and it was followed by another Top Ten single, "Touch Me," later that year. Both singles made it seem like Nelson was primed to become a star, but his career stalled just as quickly as it had taken off, and he was soon charting in the lower regions of the Top 40. Liberty closed its country division in 1964, the same year Roy Orbison had a hit with "Pretty Paper."
When the Monument recordings failed to become hits, Nelson moved to RCA Records in 1965, the same year he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Over the next seven years, Willie had a steady stream of minor hits, highlighted by the number 13 hit "Bring Me Sunshine" in 1969. Toward the end of his stint with RCA, he had grown frustrated with the label, which had continually tried to shoehorn him into the heavily produced Nashville sound. By 1972, he wasn't even able to reach the country Top 40. Discouraged by his lack of success, Nelson decided to retire from country music, moving back to Austin, TX, after a brief and disastrous sojourn into pig farming. Once he arrived in Austin, Nelson realized that many young rock fans were listening to country music along with the traditional honky tonk audience. Spotting an opportunity, Willie began performing again, scrapping his pop-oriented Nashville sound and image for a rock- and folk-influenced redneck outlaw image. Soon, he earned a contract with Atlantic Records.
Shotgun Willie (1973), Nelson's first album for Atlantic, was evidence of the shift of his musical style, and although it initially didn't sell well, it earned good reviews and cultivated a dedicated cult following. By the fall of 1973, his version of Bob Wills' "Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)" had cracked the country Top 40. The following year, he delivered the concept album Phases and Stages, which increased his following even more with the hit singles "Bloody Mary Morning" and "After the Fire Is Gone." But the real commercial breakthrough didn't arrive until 1975, when he severed ties with Atlantic and signed to Columbia Records, which gave him complete creative control of his records. Willie's first album for Columbia, The Red Headed Stranger, was a spare concept album about a preacher, featuring only his guitar and his sister's piano. The label was reluctant to release with such stark arrangements, but they relented and it became a huge hit, thanks to Nelson's understated cover of Roy Acuff's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain."
Following the breakthrough success of The Red Headed Stranger as well as Waylon Jennings' simultaneous success, outlaw country — so named because it worked outside of the confines of the Nashville industry — became a sensation, and RCA compiled the various-artists album Wanted: The Outlaws!, using material Nelson, Jennings, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter had previously recorded for the label. The compilation boasted a number one single in the form of the newly recorded Jennings and Nelson duet "Good Hearted Woman," which was also named the Country Music Association's single of the year. For the next five years, Nelson consistently charted on both the country and pop charts, with "Remember Me," "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time," and "Uncloudy Day" becoming Top Ten country singles in 1976; "I Love You a Thousand Ways" and the Mary Kay Place duet "Something to Brag About" were Top Ten country singles the following year.
Nelson enjoyed his most successful year to date in 1978, as he charted with two very dissimilar albums. Waylon and Willie, his first duet album with Jennings, was a major success early in the year, spawning the signature song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys." Later in the year, he released Stardust, a string-augmented collection of pop standards produced by Booker T. Jones. Most observers believed that the unconventional album would derail Nelson's career, but it unexpectedly became one of the most successful records in his catalog, spending almost ten years in the country charts and eventually selling over four million copies. After the success of Stardust, Willie branched out into film, appearing in the Robert Redford movie The Electric Horseman in 1979 and starring in Honeysuckle Rose the following year. The latter spawned the hit "On the Road Again," which became another one of Nelson's signature songs.
Willie continued to have hits throughout the early '80s, when he had a major crossover success in 1982 with a cover of Elvis Presley's hit "Always on My Mind." The single spent two weeks at number one and crossed over to number five on the pop charts, sending the album of the same name to number two on the pop charts as well as quadruple-platinum status. Over the next two years, he had hit duet albums with Merle Haggard (1983's Poncho & Lefty) and Jennings (1982's WWII and 1983's Take It to the Limit), while "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," a duet with Latin pop star Julio Iglesias, became another major crossover success in 1984, peaking at number five on the pop charts and number one on the country singles chart.
Following a string of number one singles in early 1985, including "Highwayman," the first single from the Highwaymen, a supergroup he formed with Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, Nelson's popularity gradually began to erode. A new generation of artists had captured the attention of the country audience, which began to drastically cut into his own audience. For the remainder of the decade, he recorded less frequently and remained on the road; he also continued to do charity work, most notably Farm Aid, an annual concert that he founded in 1985 designed to provide aid to ailing farmers. While he career was declining, an old demon began to creep up on Willie: the IRS. In November 1990, he was given a bill for $16.7 million in back taxes. During the following year, almost all of his assets — including several houses, studios, farms, and various properties — were taken away, and to help pay his bill, he released the double album The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? Originally released as two separate albums, the records were marketed through television commercials, and all the profits were directed to the IRS. By 1993 — the year he turned 60 — his debts had been paid off, and he relaunched his recording career with Across the Borderline, an ambitious album produced by Don Was and featuring cameos by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Sinéad O'Connor, David Crosby, and Kris Kristofferson. The record received strong reviews and became his first solo album to appear in the pop charts since 1985.
After the release of Across the Borderline, Nelson continued to work steadily, releasing at least one album a year and touring constantly. In 1993, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, but by that time, he had already become a living legend for all country music fans across the world. Signing to Island for 1996's Spirit, he resurfaced two years later with the critically acclaimed Teatro, produced by Daniel Lanois. Nelson followed up that success with the instrumental-oriented Night and Day a year later; Me and the Drummer and Milk Cow Blues followed in 2000. The Rainbow Connection, which featured an eclectic selection of old-time country favorites, appeared in spring 2001.
Amazingly prolific as a recording artist, Nelson released The Great Divide on Universal in 2002. A collection of his early-'60s publishing demos for Pamper Music called Crazy: The Demo Sessions came out on Sugar Hill in 2003. Later in 2003 Nelson released Run That by Me One More Time, which reunited him with Ray Price and kicked off a relationship with Lost Highway Records. It Always Will Be and Outlaws and Angels both appeared on Lost Highway in 2004, followed by the release of Nelson's long-delayed attempt at a country-reggae fusion, Countryman, also on Lost Highway, in 2005. You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker arrived the following year, along with Songbird, Nelson's collaboration with alt-country singer/songwriter Ryan Adams and his band the Cardinals. The double-disc Last of the Breed, an ambitious project that paired Nelson with Merle Haggard, Ray Price, and Asleep at the Wheel, was released by Lost Highway in 2007, followed by the Kenny Chesney/Buddy Cannon-produced Moment of Forever a year later in 2008. Also in 2008, Nelson paired with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis for the live album Two Men with the Blues.