So, too, does the 1975 album that launched it as a single, Red Headed Stranger — to an extent. It's among Nelson's most popular releases, his first to reach No. 1 on the Billboard country charts.

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Willie Nelson rejected this country hit in the late 1970s because it was too long, but the Red Headed Stranger has no regrets.

Fifty years ago, in May 1975, a stripped-down album called “Red Headed Stranger” changed the country music landscape and forever altered Willie Nelson’s trajectory. Only that musical big ...

Rhett Miller, center, is one of a handful of North Texas artists who performed songs from Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger May 17, 2025 at the Granville Arts Center in Garland.

Unfortunately, Willie Nelson had to miss the Outlaw Music Festival’s opening round of shows last weekend, which included stops in Alpharetta, Georgia and Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina ...

Amy Rosenthal and Jeff Ryan share details about the Willie Nelson ‘Red Headed Stranger’ 50th Anniversary Tribute Concert . Plus, a performance from Nathan Wells.

For the hour-and-forty minute set, Willie Nelson is in charge. Willie isn’t all things to all people, but that doesn’t mean a bunch of them won’t clap along on drastically wrong beats when ...

A (very) brief history of Willie Nelson and 'Austin City Limits' The Red-Headed Stranger relocated to Austin in 1972, disenchanted by the buttoned-up ethos and overblown production of the ...

Except for the fact that for the last five decades, almost all of the Red-Headed Stranger's July 4 concerts have been held in the South. Comments on the announcement ranged from calling it ...