Willie Nelson Picnics At Woodstock
Erik Himmelsbach, woodstock.com, 26 July 1999
WILLIE NELSON WAS FAR, far away from Woodstock in 1969, at least physically. He was about to return to Texas after a tumultuous decade as a successful Nashville songwriter and not-so-successful recording artist. But the event certainly didn't escape his radar.
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