And Willie didn’t just write songs about his love of horses, he spent his time at the ranch caring for them himself.
Even while spending around 200 days a year on the road, he still found time to drive around the ranch in his old pickup truck and check on his four-legged friends.
For horses that were once facing such a grim fate, life at Luck Ranch couldn’t be more different.
“They were just ready to go to slaughter,” Nelson explained.