Happy Birthday Willie Nelson!

Happy 91st Birthday to Willie Nelson!

His birthday is today… and tomorrow.

That’s right, Willie’s so cool he has TWO birthdays instead of one. And now you can wow your friends with this great Willie trivia.

Willie was born in Abbott, Texas on April 29th, 1933 but very late at night.

“I was born before midnight on the 29th but it didn’t get registered in the county courthouse, until the next day. So, it went out officially as the 30th. So, I just do both days.”

Here are five more amazing Willie stories:

1. The name of his 16th album is called “Shotgun Willie”. He got that nickname because he got in a gun fight with his crazy son-in-law who was abusing his daughter.

2. Willie once got high on the roof of the White House with President Carter’s son Chip.

He concealed Chip’s identity in his autobiography because he didn’t want to get him in trouble. But President Carter later confirmed it.

3. In 1993, Willie Nelson owed the I.R.S. 32 million bucks. After asset seizures, it was down to 16.7 million and he eventually settled for 9 million. To help pay for this, he appeared in a Taco Bell commercial and sang a song about the steak burrito supreme.

4. Willie got caught cheating by his second wife Shirley after she found a bill from the maternity ward of a local hospital. The charges were for the birth of a baby girl, born to a Mrs. Connie Nelson. Connie would be his third wife.

5. Tom Brady once asked Snoop Dogg what was the most stoned he’d ever been in his whole life. And without hesitation, Snoop said, “With Willie Nelson.”

Categorised in: Country Music News

This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone