Red Headed Stranger is a Willie Nelson album.
Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson . The concept for the album was inspired by the `` Tale of the Red Headed Stranger '' , a song that Nelson used to play as a disk jockey on his program in Fort Worth , Texas . Willie Nelson . In 1975 , he switched to Columbia Records , where he recorded the critically acclaimed album Red Headed Stranger .