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It's a Long Story: My Life

by David Ritz

A life lived on the road and in song

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A life lived on the road and in song

Willie Nelson’s memoir ranges from his childhood in Abbott, Texas, through journeys to the Pacific Northwest, Nashville, and Hawaii, before returning to Texas. Alongside the places, it traces the work behind a musical career: selling vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias, hosting radio shows, and writing songs while hoping for a breakthrough. Music runs through an account that also takes in love, friendship, barrooms, and life on the road and at home. The book’s scope makes it both a personal life story and a portrait of the experiences surrounding Nelson’s music.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Willie Nelson’s life and music.
  • Readers drawn to musicians’ autobiographies and accounts of working toward a career in music.
  • Readers interested in memoirs about travel, friendship, love, and life on the road.

Themes

Music and songwritingCareer and ambitionTravel and homeLove and friendshipLife on the road

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Book overview

Willie Nelson shares his life story in this captivating bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms.

"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.
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