in 1983, so we are nearly 40 years past Nelson’s album about almost dying, a conceptual work informed by a collapsed lung in Hawaii. He was at the time a youthful 50.
Nelson has always dealt with time differently than the rest of us, as he moves along in his own peculiar way. He turns 89 on April 29, which isn’t one of those multiple-of-five birthdays our culture typically trumpets. But then, Nelson doesn’t play by our arbitrary rules regarding time. So this is a “Happy Birthday” wish to a guy who would record “Happy Birthday” in a way nobody else think to do.
Nevertheless, the longest bettor in Vegas could not have wagered on what would happen after his fixing-to-die album: There followed a few years of commercial disappointment; he got in Dutch with the IRS over a remarkable unpaid tax bill; made an album sold by TV advertisements to pay off part of that bill; made a masterpiece too few people heard; and recorded duets than one could realistically list authoritatively.
To celebrate Nelson’s birthday, I considered an 89-song list for the 89 years, but then remembered how hollow a similar exercise felt at 80.Nelson has written and recorded so many enduring songs, trying to put them into ordered form is a fool’s errand. Recently my parents drove into Houston from the Midwest and the USB ports in my father’s car came unmoored. Like me, he doesn’t do streaming.
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