Land legend suicide attempt revealed

“Looking back on my life, my early days in Nashville were a clear low point. Throw back Bourbon on an ice -cold night at Tootsie’s, I thought of an old song I had heard that Lightnin ‘Hopkins was returned to gold studios in Houston. fidgety mind. So why not?

“It had begun to snow. There was no railway in sight, but there was Broadway-de Hoofdweg of the city. Why not go outside, lie down in the middle of the street and let some performed Plymouth Barracuda illuminate my troubled spirit?

“So I did. I lay, willing to stay. Eyes closed. Ready to continue and go. If this world didn’t work, maybe the next one. Tootsie’s, and I had another drink. “

The next day, his friend Paul English – a country singer/songwriter he had met on a small Texas radio station In 1955 – visited him.

Nelson remembered: “It was four in the afternoon and I was barely awake. It was the day after I tried to illuminate my restless spirit Broadway. Paul’s timing was creepy. “