REAL COUNTRY mucic fans-where did WILLIE NELSON get the name RED HEADED STRANGER!
Question: something to do with those LONG LOCKS for sure.
Answers: something to do with those LONG LOCKS for sure.
Well, he originally had strawberry blonde hair. But I don't think the name had anything to do with him personally. It was just a movie and an album. And the name just kinda stuck.
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Nelson signed with Atlantic Records and released Shotgun Willie (1973), which won excellent reviews but did not sell well. Phases and Stages (1974), a concept album inspired by his divorce, included the hit single "Bloody Mary Morning." Nelson then moved to Columbia Records, where he was given complete creative control over his work. The result was the critically acclaimed, massively popular concept album, Red Headed Stranger (1975). Although Columbia was reluctant to release an album with primarily a guitar and piano for accompaniment, Nelson insisted (with the assistance of Waylon Jennings) and the album was a huge hit, partially because it included a popular cover of "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (which was written by Fred Rose in 1945).
Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. A concept album, Red Headed Stranger is about a fugitive preacher, on the run from the law after killing his wife. Sparse and jumbled, with brief, poetic lyrics, no one involved in the creation of the album thought it would sell well. In spite of its inaccessibility, Red Headed Stranger was a blockbuster among both country music and mainstream audiences, going multiplatinum and making Nelson one of the biggest stars in country. In 2003, the same year the album was ranked #184 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time [1], Nelson sang background vocals and added some guitar to a cover version of the album done by Carla Bozulich of the alt-country band, the Geraldine Fibbers. It was ranked #1 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music in 2006.
The first track, "Time of the Preacher", was memorably used in the 1985 television drama Edge of Darkness.
The lyrics to "Time of the Preacher" were used to help open the graphic Novel Preacher.
In Willies early days he was a behind the scene song writer in Nashville.This was one of his first song/albums he did as Willie.As i remember the first album was called "red headed Stranger".....George