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Music additional generous support from Toccova's Boots. Hey there, I'm John Spong, 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 talked to New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusage,

who brings in what Willie Nerds will know as the other top 10 hit

off Willie and Merle Haggard's classic 1983 album,

Pancho and Lefty, The Haggard Original, Reasons to Quit.

Now, as anyone who's read Amanda's stuff knows, and if you haven't, I say

start with the beautiful tribute to Haggard that she wrote when he died in 2016, she's a deeply

thoughtful, deeply sensitive lover of music. And she brings that to bear here by reframing reasons to

quit, and really the whole poncho and Lefty album, as an examination

of what she calls the outlaws conundrum, or rather, what's an old rebel to do when the time

comes to start taking it easy? From there we get into Merle and Willie's long friendship,

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