We were spinning in circles,” she says of the effect the James Beard award had on business at the time. Then in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina decimated the city and Willie Mae’s Scotch House.

In the 1970s, Willie Nelson moved to Austin to find himself. In the process, he reinvented country music. A 90th birthday tribute honors that legacy.

Watch Willie Nelson’s Son Team up With Paul Simon’s Wife for a Moving Rendition of “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” at Outlaw Music Festival. By. ... Additionally, she was in Heavy Circles, ...

The arrangements were sparser than they were in the early days of Willie’s family band, an ensemble that ballooned during the Red-Headed Stranger’s freewheeling years in 1970s Austin.

With ‘Last Leaf on the Tree,’ Willie Nelson and his son Micah have made a masterpiece that is a sonic outlier—but features a whole lot of Trigger.

1973 – Holds the first annual Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic in Texas. 1975 – Wins a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain.” ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Grammy Award-winning musician Willie Nelson. Personal Birth date: April 30, 1933 Birth place: Abbott, Texas Birth name: Willie Hugh ...