He was feted by a fellow stars, including Neil Young and Snoop Dogg, in a two-night celebration at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer.Īnd on Friday, November 3, the same week the book is released, he'll be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The year of his 90th birthday has been overloaded with events. “Some of my business guys thought it would be a good thing to do,” Nelson says. It wasn't prompted by any great sense of reflection. In it, Nelson and co-authors David Ritz and Mickey Raphael give brief backstories to 160 different songs he's written through the years. He did recently write the song that gives the name to his book, Energy Follows Thought, for his 2022 album, A Beautiful Time.
“I don’t write as much as I used to,” he tells the AP.
More than performing, songwriting can be a young man's game. “Without knowing or trying, in a few little lines, I’d written the story of my life,' he says in the book.īut the songs did get fewer and farther between. But was pleased when he heard the chugging music that suggested a train, or a tour bus.
