Willie Nelson

Always on My Mind
#5 in 1982


 Willie Hugh Nelson was born April 30, 1933 in Abbott, Texas. The son of Myrtle and Ira D. Nelson, who was a mechanic and pool hall owner.[1] His grandparents William Alfred Nelson and Nancy Elizabeth Smothers gave him mail-order music lessons starting at age six. He wrote his first song at when he was seven and was playing in a local band at age nine.[2] Willie played the guitar, while his sister Bobbie played the piano. He met Bud Fletcher, a fiddler, and two siblings joined his band, Bohemian Fiddlers, while Nelson was in high school.
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