Letter From America
Marion McKeone: All that’s great about America distilled into one person – Willie Nelson
The legendary singer-songwriter, who celebrates his 90th birthday this weekend with a two-day concert at the Hollywood bowl, has always gone his own way – an icon of tolerance, collaboration and the right to live life on your own terms
Willie Nelson started his 2002 memoir with the observation: “They say that writing the first line of a book is the hardest. Thank God that’s over.”
It would be hard to capture Nelson’s story, his astonishing creative output and his influence as an icon of American culture in a single book, never mind a magazine column. In short, if you could take all that’s great about America and distil it into one person, they would ...
