By 1980,Willie Nelsonhad already composed a whopping 1,000 songs.
With every track, he managed to elude the typical Nashville formula and draw inspiration from his own life.
But things went awry when Collie received a mysterious surprising hospital bill.
From start to finish, here’s how the pair’s relationship went down.
She soon released three singles with Liberty records, including one with Willie Nelson.
According toHeavy, that track took Nelson to the Billboard country charts for the very first time.
“I saw things in him that give me goosebumps now,” she said.
For a while, they happily toured and recorded music together.
But then things took a turn for the worse.
“I told her that I had to go to the hospital for something minor.
Shirley wasn’t buying that for one simple reason.
Later that year, Nelson married Connie, butthe cheating continued.
“I still hadn’t reformed,” he confessed in the pages.
“I messed up another marriage.
My wandering ways were too much for any woman to put up with,” he wrote.
Nelson’s fourth marriage, however, has been going strong for three decades.
