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Willie Nelson

last updated 2026-09-11 11:26

Willie Nelson

Plays on LTZ: 4 across 4 shows (2024-10-10, 2026-04-23, 2026-06-04, 2026-07-02)

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11. Willie Nelson — I Never Cared for You (moment in history)

From Teatro (1998), produced by Daniel Lanois. I Never Cared for You was written by Willie Nelson in 1964 and sat largely unreleased until the Teatro sessions gave it the production it deserved.

23rd April connection: On 23rd April 2012, Chris Ethridge died aged 65. Ethridge was a bass guitarist who worked with Willie Nelson, as well as the International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Byrds, and Jackson Browne. He was a foundational figure in the Cosmic American Music scene — the loose genre that connected country, rock, and folk in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Follows Blitzkrieg Bop as the second half of the history segment — the energy drops significantly, and deliberately.

Willie Nelson — I Can't Read Your Mind

Played: 2026-06-04 (Segment 2 — Singer-songwriter run) (new release)

Willie Nelson is an American country music legend from Abbott, Texas, born 1933, with over 70 studio albums spanning more than six decades. Dream Chaser is his 79th solo studio album, released May 29, 2026 via Legacy Recordings. "I Can't Read Your Mind" is track four — a co-write between Nelson, Bob Dylan, and producer Buddy Cannon, the first time Nelson and Dylan have co-written a song together since Across the Borderline in 1993; Dylan had the initial idea and Nelson developed it with Cannon. Closes the singer-songwriter run — the Nelson/Dylan collaboration is a genuine discovery, two of America's greatest songwriters writing together again after 33 years.

Willie Nelson — Unchained Melody

Played: 2026-07-02 (Segment 5 — Moment in History) (moment in history)

From Stardust (1978), his standards album. "Unchained Melody" — written by Alex North and Hy Zaret in 1955, recorded 300+ times, and famously never containing the word "unchained." Closes the history segment as a slow, aching ballad.

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