Welcome
to Joenickp.com
Joe Nick on the RADIO, on TV and SIGNING BOOKS
5/10/08: Texas
State History Museum in Austin, BOOK SIGNING, Saturday at 2 pm
5/15/08: Brazos
Bookstore in Houston at 2421 Bissonnet, BOOK SIGNING, Thursday
at 7 pm
5/17/08: Lone
Star Jukebox on KPFT FM 90, RADIO, Saturday 10 am
5/17/08: Sig's
Lagoon on 3710 South Main Street in Houston, MEET & GREET,
Saturday at 2 pm
6/12/08: Biography
Channel, WILLIE NELSON SPECIAL, Thursday at 8 pm central time
To request a review copy of
WILLIE NELSON: AN EPIC LIFE
or to schedule an interview with Joe Nick Patoski, please contact
Bonnie Hannah at 212-364-1350 or bonnie.hannah@hbgusa.com.
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Celebrate Willie
Nelson's 75th birthday
with Joe Nick Patoski
WILLIE NELSON: AN EPIC LIFE
In stores April 21st, 2008
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Howdy, hidy, hey y'all, all y'all.
Welcome to Joe Nick Patoski's homepage.
I'm the author of the biography Willie
Nelson: An Epic Life, published by Little,
Brown & Company on April 21, 2008.
The book is in many ways the culmination of my writings about music,
Texas, and Texans. My biography
is here.
The reason I wrote this book is here.
You can read a chapter from the book
here,
order it from Amazon
here ,
and read my MVP
Q&A with Mickey Raphael, which ran in the next to last issue
of No Depression here.
I'll be doing book signings and talks from now through the summer.
My schedule is here.
Although it is getting harder and harder to find time to blog
(I have great respect for real bloggers who are the Dick Deadlines
of the modern age) but I'll try posting updates on my blog
here as much as I can.
In the meantime, those seeking all things Willie should visit willienelson.com
and stillisstillmoving.com
. Questions?
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Read Willie
Reviews
- "Willie
Nelson's Trigger Cuts: Shotgun Willie gets the respect he deserves"
by Michael Hoinski in The Village Voice
- "Biography
tackles larger-than-life Willie Nelson" by Steve Bennett
in the San Antonio Express-News
- "Excellent... Patoski, who's been writing Willie's story for thirty-five
years for publications ranging from Texas Monthly to Rolling
Stone, seamlessly weaves together the good, the bad and the ugly
to form a three-dimensional portrait of the singer.... For Nelson, his
hit 1980 single 'On the Road Again' isn't just a silly song he wrote
for the movie Honeysuckle Rose--it's literally the story of his life.
And Patoski has fleshed it out beautifully." --Rolling
Stone
- "Publishers
Weekly" Likes Willie Nelson: An Epic Life
- "Radio
Days" Fort Worth was where the quest began for a hungry
young musician who worked as a DJ named Willie Nelson [Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, April 13, 2008]
- "Big
time in Cowtown" In 1965, Willie Nelson came home to Panther
Hall, a country-music oasis deep in the heart of Cowtown, to record
a live album his way [Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
April 14, 2008]
- "Freewheeling
Willie" Joe Nick Patoski's impressively reported biography
of Willie Nelson eschews psychoanalysis for many funny firsthand stories
of the country legend's life. by Chris Willman in Entertainment
Weekly
- Always on
His Mind After spending a career covering Willie Nelson, a journalist
and fellow Texan puts Nelson's work into a 500-page perspective. by
Bob Mehr in American Way magazine
- Nashville
Skyline There are about 10 books on Willie Nelson now in print,
including his own autobiography, but I think the new biography is the
only one you need. by Chet Flippo in CMT News
- The
red-headed wild-ass in Creative Loafing
by John Grooms
- How
the boy from a hardscrabble Texas town became a country music icon.
By Robert Hilburn in the Los Angeles Times
- Austin
writer Joe Nick Patoski's epic biography includes everything you'd ever
need to know about the Red Headed Stranger by Rich Kienzle in
the Austin American-Statesman
- Willie
Nelson: a life in full Ups, downs, booze, pot, wives, ex-wives and Julio
Iglesias figure in Joe Nick Patoski's biography by Bob Ruggiero
in the Houston Chronicle
Updated: May 4, 2008
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