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Willie Nelson’s Birthday Texas Monthly Cover

April 11th 2008 in Americana, Legends, News

The #1 Willie Nelson fan site stillisstillmoving.com gives us a sneak peak of of Texas Monthly‘s special tribute cover commemorating Willie’s upcoming 75th birthday. It will also be the first time TM HAS ever done a cover without a word on it in 35 years (well, for the 270,000 or so subscribers) the rest of the newsstand buyers will get a version with just one cover line, featuring Mike Hall’s 12,000-word oral history of soon-to-be-75-year-old Willie’s life.

This is surely one to pick up!

5 comments to...
“Willie Nelson’s Birthday Texas Monthly Cover”

Linda
wrote on April 13th, 2008

Isn’t that a beautiful cover! I love it. Wished I subscribed, now. It’d be nice to have one without any words. What is this — Willie’s 12th cover on that mag? Evan Smith, really likes him, I think. But who doesn’t? I wish I could afford all the magazines I like, you know?

Baron Lane
wrote on April 13th, 2008

I hear you Linda. Keep an eye on ebay, there should be some going up there soon.

Tommy Overstreet
wrote on April 26th, 2008

For us in Country Music, or perhaps the Music Industry, and the world of fans, Willie Nelson is an ICON! However, the most wonderful part of this man has not been written…how he has NEVER, no NEVER, forgotten his friends. He has remembered every single individual who helped him along the way…Ray Price, Faron Young, Merle Haggard, and the list goes on and on. Just count the albums he has done with these great artists. He has done favors for friends, and friends of friends, that will never be published, nor known by his legion of fans. He is a wonderful “Musicman”…but he is an even better “MAN”…his heart is very big, and always in the right place! God bless you Willie.

Rhonda
wrote on May 5th, 2008

Is it possible to order this Willie Nelson sketch? If so, how?

Baron Lane
wrote on May 5th, 2008

Rhonda, this is no sketch. It’s an actual photo.

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