Cindy Walker was one of the greatest and most successful songwriters in the history of country music (over 500 of her songs have been recorded). In the 40’s, Nelson’s teenage years, Walker wrote dozens of songs for the legendary Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. She wrote hundreds of Top-40 hits, Roy Orbison Dream Baby, Jim Reeves Distant Drum, Elvis Presley You Don’t Know Me, The Byrds Blue Canadian Rockies are just a few names who recorded her songs. The oldest songs she wrote was in the period of The Honky Tonk and The Western Swing and they are best performed by the “Lonely Texas Cowboy and Outlaw” with the cracked-leather voice Willie Nelson.