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Graeme Thomson: Willie Nelson – The Outlaw

Adam Sweeting, Daily Telegraph, 9 March 2006

MANY RECORDING artists have flirted with cowboy-chic, from the Eagles with their "gunfighter" album Desperado to Jon Bon Jovi preposterously claiming to be "Wanted Dead or Alive". But Willie Nelson makes a more plausible ambassador for the Old West than any of them.

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