Man With the Blues
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| "Man With the Blues" | ||||
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| Single by Willie Nelson | ||||
| B-side | "The Storm Has Just Begun" | |||
| Released | July 9, 1959 | |||
| Recorded | 1959 at Manco Studio (Fort Worth, Texas) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:07 | |||
| Label | D | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Willie Nelson | |||
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"Man With the Blues" is a song by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. After moving to Fort Worth, Texas, and quitting the music business for a year, Nelson returned to perform on the KCUL's Country Hoedown. Through a booking agent, he was signed as a recording artist by D Records.
To pay for his first recording session, Nelson gave his booking agent half of the publishing rights of the song. Backed with "The Storm Has Just Begun", the single failed to succeed. Subsequently, Nelson rerecorded it in 1976 and 2010.
In 1957, after failing to land a spot on the Ozark Jubilee, Willie Nelson moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and quit the music business for a year.[1] He sold bibles and vacuum cleaners door-to-door, [2] and eventually became a sales manager for the Encyclopedia Americana.[3]
Returning to the music business, Nelson started to perform on the local show "Cowtown Hoedown" on KCUL. Uncle Hank Craig, the manager that booked the acts to the show helped Nelson to be signed as a recording artist to Pappy Daily's D Records and to his publishing firm, Glad Music.[4]
