 Willie hit the
Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with
"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain."
Year-End Chart
Position: # 135
 Willie was
nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Single ("Blue Eyes
Cryin' In The Rain").
Willie won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Blue Eyes Crying In The
Rain").
Willie won an American Music Award for Favorite Country Single ("Blue Eyes
Cryin' In The Rain").
Willie was
nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group (with Waylon
Jennings).
 Willie won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Georgia On My
Mind") and Best Country Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("Mama Don't Let
Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" with Waylon
Jennings).
 # 88
Singles Artist of the Year
Willie was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
 Willie hit the
Top 40 with "My Heroes Have Always
Been Cowboys."
from The
Electric Horseman soundtrack
ARC chart run: 40 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 259
available for download at Amazon.mp3
 Willie was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for
for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Whiskey River"), Best Country Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("Heartbreak
Hotel" with Leon Russell),
and Best Inspirational Performance ("I
Saw The Light" with Noel Paul
Stookey).
Willie hit the
Top 40 with "On The Road Again."
 from the Honeysuckle
Rose soundtrack
ARC chart run: 38 - 30 - 28 - 22 - 19 - 17 - 16 - 34 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 132
available for download at Amazon.mp3
Willie was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
 Willie won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("On The Road
Again") and was nominated for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("On The Road
Again").
 # 32
Singles Artist of the Year
Willie won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite Country Single ("On The Road
Again"), and was nominated for Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group (with Ray
Price).
 Willie was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male (Somewhere
Over The Rainbow).
Willie hit the Top 40 with
"Always On My Mind."
from the LP Always
On My Mind
ARC chart run: 32 - 26 - 20 - 13 - 11 - 10 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 4 - 3 - 9 - 17 - 28 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 32
 available for download
at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Willie hit the Top 10 with "Always On My Mind."
Willie hit the
Top 40 with "Let It Be Me."
 from the LP Always
On My Mind
ARC chart run: 39 - 36 - 32 - 29 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 185
available for download at iTunes
December 31: Willie topped the Billboard 1982
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Country
Artist, Top Country Artist - Male, Top
Country Album Artist, and Top Country Album
Artist - Male, and with the Top Country Album
(Always
On My Mind) and Top Country Single ("Always On My Mind").
 Willie won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Album and Favorite Country Album (Always
On My Mind).
Willie won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Always On My Mind"), and was
nominated for Record of the Year ("Always On My Mind") and Best Country Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("(Sittin' On)
The Dock Of The Bay" with Waylon
Jennings). .
December 31: Willie topped the Billboard 1983
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Country
Artist - Male and Top Country Album Artist -
Male.
 # 109
Singles Artist of the Year
 Willie won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist and was nominated for Favorite Country Album (Pancho
& Lefty with Merle Haggard).
Willie was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group (Pancho
& Lefty with Merle Haggard
and Take
It To The Limit with Waylon Jennings).
 Willie hit the Top 40 with Julio Iglesias with "To All The Girls I've
Loved Before."
from the Julio Iglesias LP 1100
Bel Air Place
ARC chart run: 37 - 30 - 16 - 11 - 9 - 6 - 3 - 3 - 5 - 14 - 30 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 62
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 Willie hit the Top 10 with Julio Iglesias with "To All The Girls I've
Loved Before."
December 31: Willie topped the Billboard
Year-End Chart-Toppers as the Top Country
Album Artist - Male and with the Top Country
Single ("To All The Girls I've
Loved Before" with Julio Iglesias).
Willie was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("City Of New
Orleans") and Best Country Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("As Time Goes
By" with Julio Iglesias).
 Willie won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite Country Single ("Forgiving You
Was Easy"), and was nominated for Favorite Country Album (City
Of New Orleans).
Willie was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Forgiving You Was
Easy") and Best Vocal Country
Performance by a Duo or Group (Highwayman with Waylon
Jennings, Johnny
Cash, and Kris Kristofferson).
 Willie won an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
Willie was honored with the
Award of Merit at the American Music
Awards.
 Willie was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Collaboration (Highwayman
2
with Waylon Jennings, Kris
Kristofferson and Johnny
Cash).
Willie was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal
Performance (Moonlight
Becomes You).
Willie was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Peach Pickin' Time Down
In Georgia").
Willie was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Instrumental
Performance ("Night And Day") and
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
("Going Away Party" with Manhattan
Transfer).
Willie was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video - Long Form (Teatro).
 Willie was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Marie") and Best Country Album (Rainbow
Connection).
Willie won a Grammy Award for
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
("Mendocino County Line" with Lee
Ann Womack from the compilation Stars
& Guitars) and was nominated for Best Country Album (The
Great Divide).
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included Red Headed
Stranger (1975) at # 184
and Stardust (1978) at # 257.
Willie was
nominated for 4 Grammy Awards for Best Country Album (Run
That By Me One More Time with Ray Price
and Live
And Kickin') and Best Country Collaboration
with Vocals ("Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't
Want To Get Over You)" with Norah Jones and "Beer For My
Horses" with Toby Keith).
 Willie could be heard on the Ray Charles LP Genius
Loves Company.
# 396 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
Willie was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("You Are My Flower")
and Best Country Collaboration with
Vocals ("Pancho & Lefty" and Merle
Haggard and Toby Keith).
 Willie was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Good Ol' Boys") and
Best Country Collaboration with
Vocals ("Dreams Come True" with Norah Jones).
Willie was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album (You
Don't Know Me: The Songs Of Cindy Walker).
 Willie teamed up with Ray
Price and Merle Haggard for
the LP Last
Of The Breed (Billboard peak: # 64 - Entertainment
Weekly:
B+).
Willie could be heard on the
tribute LP Anchored
In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash on the track "If
I Were A Carpenter."
 Willie could be heard on the Fats
Domino tribute
compilation Goin'
Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino with "I Hear You
Knockin'."
Willie released Moment
Of Forever (Billboard peak: # 56 - Rolling Stone:  ).
 Willie won a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Lost
Highway" with Ray Price).
Willie released Two
Men With The Blues with Wynton
Marsalis (Billboard peak: # 20 - Entertainment
Weekly:
B+).
(available for download at  )
 Willie topped the Billboard Top
Jazz Albums chart with Two
Men With The Blues.
Willie could be heard on the
compilation LP The
Imus Ranch Record on the track
"What A Difference A Day Makes."
Willie performed at the 21st
annual Farm Aid concert held at the Comcast
Center in Massachusetts.
 Willie could be heard on the Kenny Chesney LP Lucky
Old Sun on the track "That Lucky
Old Sun."
Rolling Stone:
'The Greatest Singers' includes Willie at # 88.
 Willie released Willie
And The Wheel (Billboard peak: # 90 - Rolling Stone:  ) with Asleep At The
Wheel.
(available for download at )
Naked
Willie was released.
 The compilations Lost
Highway (Billboard peak: # 173) and The
Essential 3.0 Willie Nelson were released.
Willie released American
Classic (Billboard peak: # 43 - Rolling Stone:  ).
Willie was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Norah Jones), Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (American
Classic), and Best Americana Album (Willie
And The Wheel).
 Willie could be heard on the
soundtrack for Valentine's
Day with the track "On The
Street Where You Live."
Willie released Country
Music.
 Nelson was nominated for a Grammy Award for
Best Americana Album (Country
Music).
Nelson along with Norah Jones and Wynton
Marsalis released Here
We Go Again.
Nelson could be heard on the Snoop Dogg LP Doggumentary
Music on the track
"Superman."
 Willie could be heard on the Tony Bennett LP Duets
II
on the track "Sunny Side Of The
Street."
Remember
Me 1 was released.
March 5: Willie could be heard
on the Lionel Richie LP Tuskegee on the re-recorded
duet of "Easy."
Willie released Heroes.
  
Willie released Let's
Face The Music And Dance.
To
All The Girls... was released.
 June 2: Willie teamed up
with Merle Haggard and
released Django And Jimmie.
Tracks: "Django And
Jimmie" - "It's All Going To
Pot" - "Unfair Weather
Friend" - "Missing Ol' Johnny
Cash" - "Live This Long" -
"Alice Hulaland" - "Don't
Think Twice, It's Alright" -
"Family Bible" - "It's
Only Money" - "Swinging
Doors" - "Where Dreams Come To
Die" - "Somewhere Between"
- "Driving The Herd" -
"The Only Man Wilder Than Me"
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 7
availabe for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
June 20: Willie and Merle
Haggard topped the Billboard
Country Albums chart with Django And Jimmie.
 April 28: Willie released God's Problem Child.
Tracks: :"Little
House On The Hill" - "Old
Timer" - "True Love" -
"Delete And Fast Forward" -
"A Woman's Love" - "Your
Memory Has A Mind Of Its Own" -
"Butterfly" - "Still Not
Dead" - "God's Problem
Child" - "It Gets Easier"
- "Lady Luck" - "I Made A
Mistake" - "He Won't Ever Be
Gone"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
 October 20: Willie And The Boys:
Willie's Stash Vol. 2 was released.
Tracks: "Move It On
Over" - "Mind Your Own
Business" - "Healing Hands Of
Time" - "Can I Sleep In Your
Arms" - "Send Me The Pillow You
Dream On" - "I'm So Lonesome I
Could Cry" - "I'm Movin'
On" - "Your Cheatin'
Heart" - "My Tears Fall" -
"Cold, Cold Heart" -
"Mansion On The Hill" -
"Why Don't You Love Me"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
 April 27: Willie released Last Man Standing.
Tracks: "Last Man
Standing" - "Don't Tell
Noah" - "Bad Breath" -
"Me And You" - "Something
You Get Through" - "Ready To
Roar" - "Heaven Is Closed"
- "I Ain't Got Nothin'" -
"She Made My Day" - "I'll
Try To Do Better Next Time" -
"Very Far To Crawl"
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 14
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available in vinyl
- June 21: Willie released Ride Me Back Home.
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 18
Tracks: "Ride Me
Back Home" - "Come On
Time" - "My Favorite Picture Of
You" - "Seven Year Itch" -
"Immigrant Eyes" - "Stay
Away From Lonely Places" -
"Just The Way You Are" -
"One More SOng To Write" -
"Nobody's Listening" -
"It's Hard To Be Humble" -
"Maybe I Should've Been
Listening"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
 April 29: Willie released A Beautiful Time.
Tracks: "I'll Love
You Till The Day I Die" - "My
Heart Was A Dancer" - "Energy
Follows Thought" - "Dreamin'
Again" - "I Don't Go To
Funerals" - "A Beautiful
Time" - "We're Not Happy (Till
You're Not Happy)" - "Dusty
Bottles" - "Me And My
Partner" - "Tower Of Song"
- "Live Every Day" -
"Don't Touch Me THere" -
"With A Little Help From My
Friends" - "Leave You With A
Smile"
Grammy
Nominee: Best Country Album
available on vinyl
 September
15: Willie released Bluegrass.
Tracks: "No Love
Around" - "Somebody Pick Up My
Pieces" - "Good Hearted
Woman" - "Sad Songs And
Waltzes" - "Home Motel" -
"You Left Me A Long, Long Time
Ago" - "Yesterday's Wine"
- "Bloody Mary Morning" -
"Slow Down Old World" -
"Still Is Still Moving To Me" -
"On The Road Again" - "Man
With The Blues"
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