Four years ago today, the country music world lost a masterful pianist and an icon's family lost a shining member.

While you certainly know some of Willie Nelson's songs, you may not know the singer-songwriter is a formidable opponent when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.

Willie Nelson scores his eighth No. 1 on the Official Country Artists Albums chart in the U.K. as Oh, What a Beautiful World climbs to the top this week. LUCK, TX - MARCH 17: Willie Nelson performs in ...

Willie Nelson at the Luck Reunion in 2022 Credit: Photo by Gary Miller Born Willie Hugh Nelson on April 29, 1933, the singer’s late-night birth wasn’t recorded by the courthouse in Abbott, Tex., until ...