^Joe Nick Patoski Willie Nelson: An Epic Life 2008 0316031984 TVG paid Willie (meaning the IRS) an advance to market the tapes, along with a second album, The Hungry Years, of Willie's earliest recordings. A telemarketing operation was set up in Nashville with a bank of operators to process credit ...
^Graeme Thomson Willie Nelson: The Outlaw 2012
1448133416 "a companion album, The Hungry Years, recorded in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1976. It was an equally strong set, and there are hundreds of other recordings still lying around in the Nelson vaults."