Recent reports by some media outlets would have you believe that Willie Nelson was at death's door, but this is not true, according to his publicist.

The 83-year-old country music legend had cancelled shoes in January and February due to a 'bad cold', which led Radar Online to claim that he was ""deathly ill," weak as a baby and unable to muster the breath to sing" in a story posted on March 13th.

However, his publicist Elaine Schock has denied such reports, and says that Nelson is in fine health and has been playing gigs in recent weeks.

Shock told AP "he's perfectly fine" yesterday, and had played to a crowd of 75,000 people at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo just last week.

Keep on truckin', Willie.