Adrian Quesada on "I Never Cared for You"
One by Willie
John Spong
4.8 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Black Puma Adrian Quesada, the Austin-based guitarist, producer, and songwriter who also co-founded Grammy-winning Latin funk orchestra Grupo Fantasma, looks at the centerpiece of Willie’s 1998 album Teatro, “I Never Cared for You.” That album, produced in a small movie house by Daniel Lanois as a showcase for Willie’s guitar-picking over a bouncing bedrock of Afro-Cuban rhythms, is considered a masterpiece by Willie World insiders. A close listen by Adrian leaves him marveling at the surreal world Lanois created for the recording…but also leads to a deep examination of the Latin elements in the music of one of country’s greatest heroes—and why that makes Willie “the most American thing we have.”
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| 0:56.9 | Hey there, I'm John Spong. |
| 0:59.4 | This is One by Willie, a podcast in which I talk each week to one notable Willie Nelson |
| 1:04.2 | fan about one Willie song that they really love. |
| 1:07.7 | This week, Adrian Cassata, the guitarist producer and co-founder of Black Pumas, |
| 1:13.5 | talks about I Never Cared for You off of Willie's 1998 Daniel Landau-produced album, Teatro. |
| 1:21.4 | Now, to my ear, Teatro has long been something of a Rosetta Stone among Willie albums, |
| 1:26.5 | the record that most clearly |
| 1:27.5 | displays the Latin influence on his guitar playing. But the thing about a Rosetta Stone is that |
| 1:33.1 | it's going to make a lot more sense if you've got somebody to translate, right? And probably |
| 1:37.2 | give you some history. Well, Adrian, who grew up studying flamenco guitar and Laredo and then founded |
| 1:42.8 | the Latin Funk orchestra groupof |
| 1:44.5 | in Austin before creating wonderful one-offs like his 2018 collection of Brown Texas soul |
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