Willie Nelson
Reviews:
Singles
“Hesitation Blues” (with Asleep at the Wheel)
“You Don’t Think I’m Funny Anymore”
Industry Honors:
Country Music Hall of Fame, 1993
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 2000
ACM Pioneer Award, 1992
Grammy Awards
- Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Mendicino County Line” (with Lee Ann Womack), 2003
- Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “Lost Highway” (with Ray Price), 2008
- Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocals: “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys” (with Waylon Jennings), 1979
- Best Country Song: “On the Road Again”, 1981
- Best Male Country Vocal Performance: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain”, 1976
- Best Male Country Vocal Performance: “Georgia on My Mind”, 1979
- Best Male Country Vocal Performance: “Always On My Mind”, 1983
Country Music Association Awards:
- Album: Wanted! The Outlaws, 1976
- Album: Always On My Mind, 1982
- Entertainer: 1979
- Single: “Good Hearted Woman” (with Waylon Jennings), 1976
- Single: “Always On My Mind”, 1982
- Vocal Duo (with Waylon Jennings): 1976
- Vocal Duo (with Merle Haggard): 1983
- Vocal Duo (with Julio Iglesias): 1984
- Vocal Event: “Mendicino County Line” (with Lee Ann Womack), 2002
Academy of Country Music Awards:
- Album: Always on My Mind, 1983
- Gene Weed Special Achievement Award, 2004
- Single: “Always on My Mind”, 1983
- Single: “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” (with Julio Iglesias), 1985
- Single: “The Highwayman” (with Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings), 1986
- Video: “Beer For My Horses” (with Toby Keith), 2004
RIAA Certifications:
Albums
5x Platinum
- Stardust, 1978
4x Platinum
- Willie and Family Live, 1978
- Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be), 1981
- Always On My Mind, 1982
2x Platinum
- Red Headed Stranger, 1975
- Wanted! The Outlaws, 1976
- Waylon & Willie, 1978
- Honeysuckle Rose, 1980
- Super Hits, 1994
Platinum
- The Sound in Your Mind, 1976
- Sings Kristofferson, 1979
- Pretty Paper, 1979
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 1981
- Pancho & Lefty (with Merle Haggard), 1983
- Without a Song, 1983
- City of New Orleans, 1984
- Half Nelson, 1985
- 16 Biggest Hits, 1998
Gold
- The Troublemaker, 1976
- One For the Road (with Leon Russell), 1979
- The Electric Horseman, 1980
- San Antonio Rose (with Ray Price), 1980
- WWII (with Waylon Jennings), 1982
- Take It To the Limit (with Waylon Jennings), 1983
- The Essential Willie Nelson, 2003
Singles
Platinum
- Always On My Mind, 1982
- To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before (with Julio Iglesias), 1984
Gold
- Beer For My Horses (with Toby Keith), 2002
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