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Along the way, he also shares the stories of his guitar Trigger, his family and “family,” as well as the artists he collaborated with, including Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Dolly Parton, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWillie is disarmingly honest—what do you have to lose when you’re about to turn 90—meditating on the nature of songwriting and finding his voice, and the themes he’s explored his whole life—relationships, infidelity, love, loss, friendship, life on the road, and particularly poignant at this juncture of his life: mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevealing, funny, whimsical, and wise, \u003cem\u003eEnergy Follows Thought\u003c\/em\u003e is an enduring tribute to Willie Nelson's legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46544076407020,"sku":"9780063272200","price":63.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13926103482210.jpg?v=1749759476"},{"product_id":"my-life-its-a-long-story-by-willie-nelson-9780751565478","title":"My Life: It's a Long Story","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive decades in the music industry, 100 albums, 10 Grammys, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Add high-profile activism for the legalisation of marijuana, the foundation of a ground-breaking philanthropic organisation, and a much-publicised personal life—Willie Nelson's is a story like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn during the Great Depression in 1933 and raised by his grandparents, he began singing in dance halls and Honky Tonks at the age of 13, as an escape from working as a cotton picker in the fields of Arkansas. He went on to write some of the most popular country songs of all time, and to record some classic versions of others, including \u003cem\u003eCrazy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBring Me Sunshine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlways on My Mind\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlue Eyes Crying in the Rain\u003c\/em\u003e. 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In the past 12 years, he has recorded 17 new studio albums, written 36 new songs and headlined over 400 live shows. What has been going on? With his trademark down-home wit, Nelson opens up and brings us in touch with the same inexhaustible, vital stream of energy he has learned how to stay tapped into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Looking to the future as I look to the past,'\u003c\/em\u003e he writes, \u003cem\u003e'I stay in the present.'\u003c\/em\u003e That captures the spirit of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Leaf\u003c\/em\u003e: forging ahead. It also flashes back to life-altering moments, including facing almost certain death during Covid and what Nelson gained from that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven into his recollections of his own life as an artist is his beautiful and often hilarious account of how the fiery spirit of Annie, his wife and best friend for four decades, has matched his own. Much has been written about the thrill of first falling in love. In \u003cem\u003eThe Last Leaf\u003c\/em\u003e we get, beautifully, the other end of the story—the abiding of that love into the harmony of sustained partnership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn every great book, at least ideally, the last chapter is the best chapter. \u003cem\u003eThe Last Leaf\u003c\/em\u003e shows how true that can be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'How can you make sense of him? How would you define the indefinable or the unfathomable? What is there to say? Ancient Viking Soul? Master Builder of the Impossible? Patron poet of people who never fit in and don't much care to? Moonshine Philosopher? Tumbleweed singer with a PhD? Red Bandana troubadour, braids like twin ropes lassoing eternity? What do you say about a guy who plays an old, battered guitar that he treats like it's the last loyal dog in the universe? Cowboy apparition writes songs with holes that you can crawl through to escape from something. 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