Willie Nelson shares his life story in this "heartfelt" bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms (Washington Post).
"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it.
It's a story of restlessness and the purity of the moment and living right. Of my childhood in Abbott, Texas, to the Pacific Northwest, from Nashville to Hawaii and all the way back again. Of selling vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias while hosting radio shows and writing song after song, hoping to strike gold.
It's a story of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms, with a musical sound track ripping right through it. My life gets lived on the road, at home, and on the road again, tried and true, and I've written it all down from my heart to yours.
Signed, Willie Nelson.
Download and start listening now!
“Brims with affectionate reminiscences of Nelson’s childhood and semi-wayward youth, his turbulent marriages and career zigzags. And of course his raison d’être, music.”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Who doesn’t love trigger-wielding Willie Nelson?… Pour a drink, take a seat, and dig into the life story of one of America’s true living legends.”
— Parade“A smooth-spoken recollection of the country legend’s childhood and his eight-decade-long musical career…. Just like this book—and its subject—direct and genuine.”
— USA Today“[A] candid, heartfelt memoir….in a plainspoken, conversational tone reminiscent of his singing voice.”
— Wall Street Journal“Nelson writes the way he sings and plays guitar—with conversational ease and grace.”
— Boston Globe“If America only had one voice, it would be Willie’s.”
— Emmylou Harris, Grammy Award–winning country music star, praise for the authorBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Willie Nelson Willie Nelson is one of the most popular, prolific, and influential songwriters and singers in the history of American music. He has recorded more than one hundred albums over six decades, appeared in several films, and written two New York Times bestsellers, It’s a Long Story and The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes. He was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.
Christopher Ryan Grant is an actor and audiobook narrator. His readings include It’s A Long Story: My Life by Willie Nelson and Honky Tonk Samurai by Joe R. Lansdale, among others.