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See if you are in this month 22–25 Playlists and Charts The defi nitive Line dance charts, entirely based on your votes and feedback. Who is Number One? 49–62 Steppin’Off The Page 80 14 Fantastic Dances : 49 I Said I Love You 50 Blue Sky 51 Move It ‘N’ Groove It 52 Happy Radio 53 Out Of Sight 54 Rama Lama Ding Dong 55 Wonderful 56 Barbed Wire Waltz 57 Happy! 58 Brother Louie 59 Stronger 60 Crystal Chandeliers 61 Oklahoma Wind 62 Fire On Ice 5 Contents july 1 30/5/08, 12:53:57 pm LEGE Willie Nelson is a true mother’s native American heritage for, within six To p 10. This marriage then failed and his musical months, she deserted her family leaving behind career seemed over. Depressed and drunk Willie giant of Country Music. the baby son, daughter and husband. Willie and lay in the road hoping a car would run over him. Richard Kirk looks back sister Bobbie were raised by their church going Fortunately, it was in the wee small hours of grandparents. Aged four, Willie made his fi rst the morning. No cars. Tried pig farming but the on a very full life and a public performance reciting a poem at a Gospel property burnt down. picnic outing. At six he received his own guitar rare and huge talent and within a year, inspired by the records on Back to Texas he settled in Austin where the radio by such artists as Gene Autry, Sons he found a hotbed of musical freedom. He Kris Kristofferson once described Willie Nelson of the Pioneers, Ernest Tubb, Bob Wills and noticed the long-haired hippies and students as “A carved in granite samurai poet warrior, Lefty Frizzell he started writing his very own were getting into country music as well as gypsy-pickin’ wild man, with a heart of gold as heartbreak songs. In 1943, aged seven he had the red necks. He grew his hair long, wore a big as Texas and the greatest sense of humour his fi rst professional gig playing acoustic guitar in bandanna, old jeans and dirty trainers and took in the West.” For sure Nelson has always been the John Raycjeck Bohemian Polka Band. up reading the Karma and books on meditation true to himself. His songs range from his and reincarnation and helped to establish the own, individual, compositions to the timeless In the early ‘50’s he worked part time as a door- ‘Outlaw’ edge and attitude in country music.