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The Unbroken Circle is usually a feature where I discuss classic country songs, though in this case, it’s the start of a career retrospective on Willie Nelson.

As one of music’s most enduring and versatile talents, it’s difficult – no, impossible – to categorize Willie Nelson or condense his life into one cohesive story.

Over three decades, he scored 21 No. 1 hits. Before then, he was a songwriter notching even more hits for artists like Ray Price and Patsy Cline. That’s just in country music, too.

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Over time, Nelson’s influences have ranged from everything to pop to jazz, reggae, western swing and gospel, and his collaborations with artists of all stripes speak for themselves.

Credit all of that to his musical upbringing, which, joyous as it already sounds, acted as more of a needed respite from a hardscrabble youth over anything else.

A child of the Depression era, Nelson was born in April of 1933, in Abbott, Texas, just outside of Waco. His parents were teenagers when they