Award season is just around the corner, and Willie Nelson’s album Stardust will join twenty-six other songs and albums in the 2015 Grammy Hall of Fame. This will be Willie Nelson’s third time to be immortalized by the Grammy committee.
Willie Nelson’s former manager, Neil Reshen, passed away recently at age 75, due to complications with Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Reshen was the fearless manager that negotiated music contracts for Willie Nelson (he and Waylon Jennings were Mr. Reshen’s first clients), and brought them into the public eye. The Red Headed Stranger album from 1975 rose to number one on the country charts and number twenty-eight in the pop charts, and it catapulted Willie Nelson into the spotlight. Red Headed Stranger, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002.
Willie Nelson’s second Grammy Hall of Fame selection was the single “Always on my Mind” from his Columbia album, which was made in 1975 and inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008. Readers can watch the Grammy’s, which occur this year on February eighth on CBS at 7pm ET/PT.
In the documentary feature film Welcome to Eden, Willie Nelson is featured as a celebrity supporter of the now-demolished South Central Farm in Los Angeles. It is now available on Vimeo.
