Lana Nelson on “Red Headed Stranger”
This week, Willie’s first-born, daughter Lana Nelson, talks about one of the songs her dad used to sing to her at bedtime, “Red Headed Stranger,” calling his breakthrough 1975 recording of it one of t...
27 Maalis 202441min
Wade Bowen on “Me and Paul”
This week, one of the brightest stars of the Texas Country/Red Dirt scene, singer-songwriter Wade Bowen, examines “Me and Paul,” Willie’s 1971 chronicle of the road-warrior life he was sharing with hi...
20 Maalis 202436min
John Leventhal on “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain”
This week, six-time Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist John Leventhal—see Shawn Colvin’s A Few Small Repairs; his wife, Rosanne Cash’s The River and the Thread—discusses the s...
13 Maalis 202439min
Susan Tedeschi on “Somebody Pick Up My Pieces”
This week, one of Willie’s longtime tour mates, Grammy-winning blues singer and guitarist Susan Tedeschi, talks about a deep cut off his 1998 album with Daniel Lanois, Teatro, “Somebody Pick Up My Pie...
6 Maalis 202435min
Bruce Robison on “Walkin’”
Singer-songwriter Bruce Robison is famous for writing highly intelligent, richly detailed country songs—that happen also to be incredibly sad. (See “Angry All the Time,” by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, ...
28 Helmi 202438min
Lawrence Wright on “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die”
This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright talks about a Willie hit of recent vintage, 2011’s “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.” That may seem an odd focus song for Larry, a New Yorke...
21 Helmi 202433min
Booker T Jones on "Georgia on My Mind"
Booker T. Jones is one of the true geniuses of American music, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer as a keyboardist, composer, and bandleader (see “Green Onions,” “Soul Man,” “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay...
14 Helmi 20240s
Whoopi Goldberg on "Stardust"
In addition to being one the few artists to earn an EGOT—i.e. win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony—Whoopi Goldberg also happens to be a big-time music nerd and monster Willie fan. On this episode she ...
7 Helmi 202435min
