Play Willie I Woke Not Dead Again Tody
For Willie Nelson, the autumn of life is colorful
Willie Nelson has been "On the Road Again" -- and again and over again -- ever since he released that vocal back in 1980. And a song on his newest album proves he has no intention of hanging it upwardly whatsoever time soon, a point he underscores to our Bob Schieffer, For The Record (An earlier version of this story was originally circulate on April 2, 2017):
"I woke up still non dead once again today
The Internet said I had passed abroad
If I died I wasn't dead to stay
I woke up yet not dead once more today.
"Now, how in the earth do y'all come up with that song?" Schieffer asked.
"Oh, I don't know -- I've been killed several times throughout the years!" Nelson laughed. "And so I just idea I'd write something funny about it."
It's easy for Willie Nelson to laugh off these greatly exaggerated rumors of his demise. Now 84, he's on the route once again -- performing and writing music. His concluding album, "God'southward Problem Child," was his 110th, give or take, with songs like "Yet Non Dead" and "Old Timer."
To hear Willie Nelson perform "Old Timer" from "God's Problem Kid," click on the video player below:
"There'due south a theme here," said Schieffer. "This is about the autumn of life. Is that hard for y'all to recall about?"
"No," he laughed. "You remember one of those deep thinkers, a guy named Seneca? He said you should expect at death and one-act with the same eyebrow. And I believe that."
"The fall of your life -- and I'thousand correct there with y'all, buddy -- it's like the springtime in everybody else'southward life. I mean, you're at the summit of your powers, I would say, right now."
"Everything's going proficient," Nelson said. "I remember historic period is but a number. I've heard it all my life: It's not how old y'all are, it'due south how you feel. And I've been lucky with [everything], health-wise and career-wise.
"I haven't really got anything to bitch about!" he laughed.
It wasn't always and then. Early on on, Nelson left his native Texas for Nashville, making a name for himself writing hits for others, like "Crazy," recorded by Patsy Cline.
Nashville liked his songs, just his singing? Not so much.
At one indicate Nelson became and so down-hearted that he went out and laid down in the middle of the street in Nashville hoping that a car would run over him. "'Class, it was midnight -- there wasn't a lot of traffic!" he laughed. "No auto got me!"
"What were those days like?" Schieffer asked.
"Oh, they were wild and crazy. Y'all know, I was going through ane relationship later another, 1 divorce after another. And those things will make you write songs. If you're a songwriter, that's where you become your fabric, from all your headaches and heartaches."
Nelson went back to Texas, changed his await, and changed his tune -- less Grand Ole Opry and more good ole boy, spiced with a little hippy and redneck. With his friend Waylon Jennings came a new, raw audio: Outlaw country.
To lookout Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings perform "Mammas Don't Allow Your Babies Abound Upwardly to Exist Cowboys" at Subcontract Aid (1986), click on the video actor beneath.
Through the years, Nelson'due south music came to transcend genre. He's won eight Grammys, and honors he never imagined.
Regarding the record producer Harlan Howard's quip that "Land music is three chords and the truth," Schieffer asked Nelson, "What is it that sets your songs apart?"
"Well, you lot know, it's three-quarters of the way truthful. You can have more than than three chords! But the truth matters."
"What causes you lot to come with these songs that people say, 'Well, that'due south right'?"
"I don't know. I'1000 just writing what I'm thinking. And if it comes out pretty good, I'll write it downwards somewhere and come with a melody to it. But I'm merely writing what I'1000 thinking, but off the meridian of my head, really."
When he's not traveling on his passenger vehicle to one of the more than than 100 shows he stills does every year, Nelson splits his time betwixt a home in Maui (where he hangs with friends like Woody Harrelson), and his ranch outside Austin, complete with an Erstwhile W boondocks he named Luck, Texas.
When Schieffer dropped past, 3,000 fans filled the town for the Luck Reunion, the brainchild of Willie'south corking niece, Ellee.
She said the Luck Reunion had started as a 1-twenty-four hours event: "Jubilant singers and songwriters who were kind of forging their path in the aforementioned kind of vein as Willie is. Only, you know, doing their own thing without compromise."
"A lot of people get to hear a lot of adept music and hang out, have a good time," Nelson added. "So it's turned out to be real expert."
Things didn't always turn out "existent skilful" for Willie. Back in the '90s at that place was the petty affair of dorsum taxes he owed Uncle Sam.
"I gotta say," Schieffer noted, "you're the merely guitar picker from Abbott, Texas that I ever knew or heard of that owed the federal government $32 meg!"
"It's kind of funny when yous think about it!" Nelson laughed.
"But I'm sure information technology wasn't funny to you at the time."
He worked information technology out, and paid it off. But he never alleged bankruptcy. "I don't believe in that," Nelson said. "You know, I believe if I owe some people some money, I want to pay them."
He's been arrested more than once for possession of marijuana.
"I want to ask y'all a trivial about pot," Schieffer asked.
"You got one?"
"No."
These days he's in the cannabis concern in places where information technology'southward legal. And then why has he been such an abet? "For myself, it's skilful for me," he said. "It keeps me from going off and doing crazy things. I can relax and play some music and sit around and visit and act similar a grown-up, I call back."
Nelson one time said that his fourth wife, Annie, married a better human being than his other wives. "I did!" she laughed. "I got him afterwards everybody else sort of trained him."
They've been together more than than 31 years.
And what's it similar to exist married to Willie Nelson? "It's not wearisome! It's never boring. He has a lot of energy. There'due south 23 years betwixt u.s.a., but I think his goal is to wearable me out so that we're both the same historic period!"
Schieffer asked Nelson, "Y'all call up you'll ever retire?"
"What do you want me, to quit? All I practice is play music and a niggling golf, and I don't desire to quit either ane of those!"
For Willie Nelson the style to stop wearing out is to speed up.
Schieffer noted, "Andy Rooney said one time, 'We don't ask to get old. Nosotros merely get erstwhile … And if you're lucky, you lot may go old, as well.' You and I have been pretty lucky!"
"Yeah, we have," Nelson said. "Very lucky. We're notwithstanding here. We woke up notwithstanding not dead again!"
To hear Willie Nelson perform "A Woman's Dear" from "God'southward Trouble Kid," click on the video player below:
For more info:
- "God'south Problem Child" by Willie Nelson (Sony Legacy); Available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iTunes
- willienelson.com
- Follow @WillieNelson on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/willie-nelson-gods-problem-child/
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