I asked Merle, ‘Come sing on this,’ and he did," remembered Nelson as he started to revisit his 1989 song "A Horse Called ...

The blazing firefight that inspired Willie Nelson's 1973 hit "Shotgun Willie" and gave him his iconic nickname of the same title.

Sometimes lost in the fog of pot jokes about the world's most famous celebrity stoner is the fact Willie Nelson is ... long that he's written more than 2,500 songs, lodged 60 hits on the country ...