Willie nelson autobiography review

  • - perfect for vacation or summer reading.
  • It's A Long Story: My Life is easily worth the $30 investment if for no other reason than that it should be read twice.
  • This book might seem like the biography of a country singer and songwriter.

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    Book Review: “It’s a Long Story: My Life” By Willie Nelson with David Ritz

    It’s A Long Story: My Life
    By Willie Nelson with David Ritz
    Little, Brown

    By Diana Finlay Hendricks

    With more than a dozen autobiographies and collaborations — and a world-class definitive non-authorized biography — already on the shelves, why another Willie Nelson book?  Because, as the title explains, “It’s a long story.”

    It’s A Long Story: My Life is easily worth the $30 investment if for no other reason than that it should be read twice. It will take a solid read through and then a revisit to catch the authentic voice and nuances of the book.

    On first read, the cynical reader may be quick to criticize David Ritz as a hired gun “autobiographer,” having pseudo-ghost-written similar books for everyone from Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin to vän Guy and Don Rickles. Yes, at first pass, much of It’s ALong Story appears to be little more than transcribed digital tapes f

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    Willie: An Autobiography

    June 12, 2020
    So many of Willie Nelson's songs are on the soundtrack of our lives. My personal soundtrack includes Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (played constantly at the cottage), The Red-Headed Stranger album, Willie's cover of Stardust, and Patsy Cline's cover of Crazy. His autobiography tells the story of a rollicking life of concert dates, golf games and women (not necessarily in that order). But there is also a deeply still, spiritual side to Willie that is the source of his creativity and energy. He is a very intuitive person, and talks about training yourself to trust your intuition. He is in touch with himself and with the world around him, and when you read the book, you can feel the circular flow of energy between himself and his world.
    There were parts of the book that were foreign to me - the wildness of the days on the road, and the drug life- but ultimately, I enjoyed the book, and ended with a different kind of respect for Willie. I always res

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    It's a Long Story: My Life

    Willie Nelson

    2015 / Little, Brown and Company

    Review by Kathy Parsons

    I have been writing about and reviewing music for many years and although I have never been much of a country music fan, Willie Nelson has always intrigued me because he and his music fit into so many sub-categories and genres. I've always felt he was and is very genuine, generous and a one-of-a-kind person, and his autobiography confirmed those thoughts. Truly a legend in his own time for his music as well as his take-it-or-leave-it lifestyle, I was anxious to read about his life in his own words.

    From the beginning, Nelson's life was unusual. Both of his parents both took off when he and his sister were very young, leaving his grandparents to raise them both. Many readers will be amazed at how many years and how much blood, sweat, and tears went into breaking into the music industry and will find Nelson's stories of the many jobs he took in the meantime - including selling Kirby