Texas Monthly.

Hey there, I'm John Spong with Texas Monthly, and this is One by Willie, a podcast in which I talk

each week to one notable Willie Nelson fan about one Willie song that they really love.

This week, we are kicking off a special four-episode mini-season of the podcast that we are calling

One by Willie live from Luck. That's right. These are interviews taped this past March at Willie's Ranch

slash Golf Course slash Old West Town with four artists who'd come

to play his annual luck reunion and that we recorded in an old Bowles Arrow camper trailer

the Willie's great nephew Joe had tricked out just for these conversations and parked about

100 yards from the main stage. And if by chance you're having a hard time picturing how cool that was,

you need to get to the next big show in luck and check it out for yourself. This week, we talk with

three-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Alison Russell about Willie's landmark 1978 recording

of Hogi Carmichael's Stardust. That song is, of course, the opening track on the album of the same name,

which went on to become the biggest seller of Willie's long career.

And it prompts deep thoughts from Allison on the lovingly subtle way Willie honored the beauty

in the melody with his singing and his picking,

why his vocals make her think of Billy Holiday, and memories

of playing the Stardust album non-stop and on repeat for her daughter Ida when she was

born eight years ago.

It was essentially a musical pacifier and a much-loved component in the life of Allison's

young family.

So let's do it.

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