Revisiting Willie Nelson’s Iconic Debut On The First-Ever ‘Austin City Limits’

Nothing beats a Willie Nelson throwback.

It feels like the Red Headed Stranger has been around forever, does it not? In a way… he kind of has been. The 92-year-old country music legend was born in 1933, and started writing and releasing music in the late 1950s and early 1960s. For those not gifted in math, that means Nelson has been contributing to the world musically for over six and a half decades.

That being said, Willie’s path to country music stardom wasn’t exactly linear. When he was first getting started, he moved around the country and took odd jobs all over the place (dishwasher, bouncer, door-to-door vacuum salesman) just to try and keep his dreams of a music career alive…

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