{"id":17504,"date":"2013-03-21T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=17504"},"modified":"2013-03-21T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:00:43","slug":"willie-nelson-a-doctor-hey-man-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/21\/willie-nelson-a-doctor-hey-man-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson a Doctor, Hey Man Wow!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Willie Nelson to Receive Honorary Doctorate From Berklee<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Willie Nelson continues to show everyone that life can get even more rewarding as the years fly by. He\u2019s one of country music\u2019s greatest \u2018Heroes,\u2019 and it\u2019s fitting that with all his success and accomplishments, Nelson will receive an honorary doctor of music degree from the prestigious Berklee College of Music.<\/p>\n

The iconic outlaw country singer, along with Carole King and Annie Lennox, will be presented with honorary degrees at the school\u2019s commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11. These three recipients are being recognized for their achievements and influence in music and for their enduring achievements and contributions to American and international culture. Past recipients of this award have included Loretta Lynn and Smokey Robinson.<\/p>\n

\"WN_FaceM_SL\"Nelson has much to look forward to this year, with many exciting accomplishments still to come. He is set to release \u2018Let\u2019s Face the Music and Dance\u2019 just weeks before his 80th birthday, and will also be headlining the 2013 Taste of Country Music Festival with his family band.<\/p>\n

As Nelson prepares to head out \u2018On the Road Again,\u2019 he should be proud of the inspiring example he sets for musicians all over the world. Hopefully, when he steps onto the stage to receive his Berklee degree, he\u2019ll feel the deep respect he\u2019s garnered from fans for decades. Congratulations to Dr. Nelson!<\/p>\n

If you look back through Willie Nelson\u2018s album covers, you\u2019ll find he doesn\u2019t begin to grow his famous ponytails until 1972 at the earliest. The singer didn\u2019t adopt his signature look until the 1975 album \u2018Red Headed Stranger.\u2019 That\u2019s 13 years after first appearing on an album jacket for \u2018And Then I Wrote.\u2019 Yes, Willie was once clean-shaven!<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, Nelson has cropped his hair a few times, even maintaining a shoulder-length bob for a period of time. Most often, he\u2019s found in all black with the red, white and blue neck piece and a bandana holding back his long silver locks. His eyes aren\u2019t as bright as they once were, but we can\u2019t say for certain what Nelson was doing before this \u201cNow\u201d picture was taken.<\/p>\n

Well just Willie or Dr Willie I am still a Fan, love your music Willie er…I mean Dr Willie<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Willie Nelson to Receive Honorary Doctorate From Berklee Willie Nelson continues to show everyone that life can get even more rewarding as the years fly by. He\u2019s one of country music\u2019s greatest \u2018Heroes,\u2019 and it\u2019s fitting that with all his success and accomplishments, Nelson will receive an honorary doctor of music degree from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. The iconic outlaw country singer, along with Carole King and Annie Lennox, will be presented with honorary degrees at the school\u2019s commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11. These three recipients are<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}