Stop the presses!  The long time Sampson of country music, Willie Nelson, has done the unthinkable.  The "red headed stranger" has now become the "bob head stranger!"  Why? Wait for it...Willie Nelson has cut his hair!!   No more pigtails!!   Here's a pic from Willie's website willienelson.com and the story from myfoxdfw.com.

The Haircut Heard Around the World

AUSTIN, Texas - Country music fans have come to expect a little eccentricity from legendary crooner Willie Nelson, but he pulled off a real shocker this time.

He cut his hair.

"Oh Noooooo!," wrote one fan who saw a picture of Willie's new-do on the website of Nashville TV and radio personality Jimmy Carter. Another fan expressed the tongue-in-cheek hope that Willie had taken his freshly shorn hair and "donated it to the oil spill."

Nelson's waist-deep, reddish pigtails have long been one of the singer-songwriter's signature features. But spokeswoman Elaine Schock said Nelson, who's been hanging loose in Hawaii, got his hair cut in the last couple of weeks. She said the Texas-born performer didn't make a big fuss about the makeover, but she theorized Willie might have grown tired of dealing with the long locks.

"There's a lot of maintenance," she said.