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They Told Ray Charles & Willie Nelson These Songs Would Fail — They Were Wrong

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Ray Charles and Willie Nelson weren't always welcomed into country music. Songs got rejected. Rights got sold for pocket change. Labels called finished albums "unfinished." But these are the 10 songs that changed everything anyway.

From Willie Nelson selling "Family Bible" for $50 to survive, to Ray Charles being told he'd "lose all his fans" for touching country music, to the night these two legends finally shared a No. 1 hit together — this is the story of two outsiders who rewrote what country music could be.

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Willie Nelson
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Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, country music history
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