Happy birthday Willie Nelson it’s time for a thread of mostly verified Willie stories

one time Waylon Jennings was walking on the beach in Malibu and found Willie wandering around, he wasn't living there at the time and ended up in Waylon's kitchen coloring with Waylon's kid

he once bailed out Dennis Hopper in Taos after Dennis decided to eat a whole sheet of acid and empty a handgun in the middle of town

at least as of a couple of years ago Willie spent a lot of nights not in a bed, but in a sleeping bag on his porch in Texas

Willie's house caught fire and he ran back into his house to grab "a bale of weed" before the Nashville firefighters or cops found it

he had an affair with Amy Irving that broke up two marriages and um...regrets nothing

one of the few times anyone has seen him mad was when Owen Wilson was asking him about the rules of dominoes and got so annoying with it that Willie yelled out "BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE RULES, DAMMIT"

settled a gunfight in a Birmingham parking garage

the ad for the IRS tapes -- recorded to pay off his massive debt to the Feds -- start with YOU CAN GET THE SATISFACTION OF HELPING WILLIE

when the IRS seized his ranch, a bunch of farmers he'd helped via Farm Aid got together and bought it.

They gave it back to him.

“Never.”

every story here but mostly this one about Rodney Crowell getting a song picked by Willie and going down to Louisiana to watch him sing it https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/thats-just-the-way-willie-rolls/

same article, this time from Kinky Friedman

The night before the biggest case of his life, Willie Nelson and Darrell Royal pulled up to Joe Jamail's house in a white limo and in his words "kept me up all fucking night drinking" https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/joe_jamail

Joe personally took home $400 mil the next day after the jury awarded a bleary Jamail and his client $10.3 billion

This isn’t amateur hour I’m not even using some of the classics

He followed up his biggest album with a collection of ancient standards recorded in three days with Booker T and the MGs in the living room of a house in Malibu, the record company thought it would fail and it stayed in the country charts for seven years