{"id":11433,"date":"2021-06-04T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:56:45","slug":"willie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/04\/willie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/willie-nelson-interview-profile-11622635975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Willie Nelson Is America\u2019s Favorite Outlaw<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>At 88, Willie Nelson is still singing, writing, championing the causes he believes in\u2014and staying true to his renegade Texas roots<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By\u00a0Alan Light<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-340252?width=620&amp;size=0.7494145199063232\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>PHOTO:\u00a0MARK SELIGER<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Being stuck at home has been brutal for many of us, but it\u2019s different for Willie Nelson. He\u2019s spent most of his life on a tour bus, logging over 100 shows a year for decades; his signature song is \u201cOn the Road Again.\u201d The guy wasn\u2019t trained to be an indoor cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His response to quarantine has been a schedule and productivity that would be daunting for someone half his age. In the past year, Nelson has released two albums\u2014<em>First Rose of Spring<\/em>\u00a0and, more recently,\u00a0<em>That\u2019s Life<\/em>, songs from Frank Sinatra\u2019s catalog; written his 10th book,\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollinsfocus.com\/harper-horizon\/willie-nelsons-letters-to-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">Willie Nelson\u2019s Letters to America<\/a><\/em>; organized and performed at multiple livestream benefits (including the 35th annual concert for Farm Aid, an organization he helped found); delivered a keynote address at the (virtual) South by Southwest festival; recorded a version of \u201cI\u2019ll Be Seeing You\u201d as a PSA for Covid vaccination; launched a new cannabis convention; and turned up on additional duets and recordings. It\u2019s not the same as being on the bus, but it\u2019s not a bad showing for a guy who turned 88 in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/willie-nelson-interview-profile-11622635975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal Why Willie Nelson Is America\u2019s Favorite Outlaw At 88, Willie Nelson is still singing, writing, championing the causes he believes in\u2014and staying true to his renegade Texas roots By\u00a0Alan Light Being stuck at home has been brutal for many of us, but it\u2019s different for Willie Nelson. He\u2019s spent most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}