THE SIX NAMES WILLIE NEVER FORGOT At ninety-two, truth becomes a man’s first language — and Willie Nelson has never been one to lie. Somewhere between laughter and twilight, he leaned back in his chair, eyes half-closed, and whispered six names — six women’s voices he said he wanted to “sleep with.” But it wasn’t what anyone thought. He wasn’t talking about love, or longing, or sin. He was talking about sound — those voices that had once tucked him into the rhythm of life itself. “These women,” he said softly, smiling like a man listening to ghosts, “they reminded me why I started singing.” No one in the room moved. No one dared to. Because when a legend starts naming the voices that shaped his own, you realize it isn’t gossip he’s sharing — it’s gratitude. And maybe that’s the truest confession of all: that even the greatest voices still pray in harmony with the ones who taught them how to feel.
WHEN WILLIE NELSON FINALLY SPOKE ABOUT “THE SIX WOMEN HE WANTED TO SLEEP WITH,” THE ROOM WENT SILENT Not out…