Willie Nelson's songwriting journey has been a longtime in the making, and it stared when he wrote his first poem at just six years old.

It’s fun to hear Willie Nelson sing such words as “ninja,” “fishmonger” and “absinthe,” which are among the many pleasures found in the songbook of influential country songwriter Rodney Crowell. “Oh ...

In the late 1960s, Willie Nelson worried he wasn't ready for Nashville. By the mid-1970s, he knew that Nashville hadn't been ...