It's a Long Story: My Life

It's a Long Story: My Life

It's a Long Story: My Life

It's a Long Story: My Life

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Overview

Willie Nelson shares his life story in this "heartfelt" bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms (Washington Post).

"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it.

It's a story of restlessness and the purity of the moment and living right. Of my childhood in Abbott, Texas, to the Pacific Northwest, from Nashville to Hawaii and all the way back again. Of selling vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias while hosting radio shows and writing song after song, hoping to strike gold.

It's a story of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms, with a musical sound track ripping right through it. My life gets lived on the road, at home, and on the road again, tried and true, and I've written it all down from my heart to yours.

Signed, Willie Nelson.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316403542
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 05/17/2016
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 43,740
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Willie Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. He was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Part 1 My Beginning

1 Home 13

2 To All the Girls at School 29

3 First Family Band 38

4 Zeke 49

5 Falling into the 1950s 58

6 Mission City and Other Stops along the Way 70

7 Positive Thinking 78

8 Coastin' 89

Part 2 Songs Falling from the Sky

9 Back to Cow Town 109

10 Dark Night of the Soul 119

11 The Store 131

12 Hello, Hits 143

13 The Offenders 153

14 Farm Life 160

15 Waylon 171

16 Now 183

Part 3 Teardrops and Flowers

17 Time 199

18 Reboot 209

19 Game Changers 217

20 Happy Fourth, 1973 227

21 Pure Sunshine and Purple Jesus 238

22 Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House 247

23 Against the Grain 261

Part 4 Over the Rainbow

24 Silver Screen 279

25 Always 287

26 "Burn the Fucker Down!" 301

27 Falling in Love 309

28 Keep on Truckin' 317

29 "Listen to the Blues They're Playing / Listen to What the Blues Are Saying" 327

Part 5 Spirit

30 High 337

31 Rainbows 351

32 Abbott 367

Acknowledgments 377

Index 379

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