With a video list as long as your arm (or longer) and a hit list equally as impressive, Willie Nelson on YouTube is an excellent way to while away a hot Texas spring or summer day. Whether you’re looking for a full playlist, a particular hit, or even a hard-to-find tune that takes you back, he’s the man with the song that will send you into a lull of listening beauty.
Known intimately in the Texas Hill Country, Nelson is synonymous with the sound of the outlaw movement. It was a progressive sound that made its way out of Texas in the ’70s and found fans who were looking for something other than the canned hits that were known to be generated out of Nashville at the time – a.k.a. the “country music capital.” When others were dressed in rhinestones and singing about things that listeners weren’t entirely sure they could identify with, Nelson, along with many of his counterparts, hit the airwaves with their own brand of music. It was a style and mindset that was easily adopted throughout the U.S. and beyond.
