Sept 18 2006 - Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said.
The citations were issued after a commercial vehicle inspection of the country music star's tour bus, state police said in a news release.
“When the door was opened and the trooper began to speak to the driver, he smelled the strong odor of marijuana,” the news release said. A search of the bus produced 1½ pounds of marijuana and slightly more than three ounces of narcotic mushrooms.
21 Aug 2005 - By John Gerome The Associated Press - Willie Nelson is so prolific that sometimes even he forgets he has another record coming out.At a recent show in Nashville, Tenn., with Bob Dylan, Nelson performed a long list of hits, but not a single song from his long-awaited reggae album, "Countryman," which came out in July."I keep forgetting," Nelson said a few days later by telephone from the road, which he's called home for most of the last 30 years. "The set is so short." Nelson will perform Sunday evening at the Embassy Theatre. He joined country singer Toby Keith for a concert at Memorial Coliseum in November 2003 and did a solo gig at the Embassy in August 2003. He began work on the reggae album in 1995 for Island Records, but the project was shelved after Island founder Chris Blackwell left the company. It languished until Nelson moved to Lost Highway Records.Produced by Don Was, who has worked with the Rolling Stones and Bonnie Raitt, among others, the album includes reggae versions of Nelson songs such as "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" and "One in a Row." There also are covers of Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" and "Sitting in Limbo," and a song called "I'm a Worried Man" by Johnny and June Carter Cash that Nelson recorded as a duet with Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals.
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