The yellow-haired lady couldn’t have known what this bay horse meant to the stranger, but she quickly found out. Edith Lindeman and Carl Stutz wrote “Red Headed Stranger.” Ms. Lindeman was a ...

It was called “Red Headed Stranger,” and it gave the album its title. Red Headed Stranger is comprised of 15 tracks, but only three of them run longer than three minutes. Several are shorter ...

Willie Nelson (third from left) recorded "Red Headed Stranger" at Garland's Autumn Sound Studios in 1975 with the help of Mickey Raphael, Jody Payne and Bee Spears. The studio today is known as ...

Fifty years ago, in May 1975, a stripped-down album called “Red Headed Stranger” changed the country music landscape and forever altered Willie Nelson’s trajectory. Only that musical big ...

In 1975, Willie Nelson released the seminal Red Headed Stranger, his first studio album to go platinum in the United States. It was the first of many seminal moments for 91-year-old icon ...

A concept album about a man who kills his wife and her lover, Red Headed Stranger was a critical and commercial success, helping define the outlaw country music movement and making Nelson a ...

Thirty-seven years ago today, on Feb. 19, 1987, Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger film premiered in Austin, Texas. The movie, which also starred Morgan Fairchild and Katharine Ross ...

Lost Western flick Red Headed Stranger never made it to DVD. Following a limited national release in 1986, the onscreen adaptation of Willie Nelson's groundbreaking album by the same name isn't on ...

Mr. Nelson’s 18th studio album and his first for the label, “Red Headed Stranger” was a huge success following its release 50 years ago this month. The album reached No. 1 on Billboard’s ...