Texas Monthly.

Hey there, I'm John Spong with Texas Monthly magazine, 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, another installment in our 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 Westtown with four artists

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

that Willie's great nephew Joe tricked out just for these conversations and parked about a hundred

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

you need to get to the next big show and luck and check it out for yourself.

This week, Americana singer-songwriter Charlie Crockett,

who may well be the current generation's single greatest champion of Real Deal,

old-school, gut-p gut punch country music talks about another of

Willie's old pamper demos face of a fighter. It's a fairly forgotten weeper that Willie cut for his

publishing company in 1961 and then for whatever reason never did get around to recording for a proper

album. But as Charlie O. Pines, it's a song so strong that,

if just about any other country artist, had come up with it,

it would have been the best song they ever wrote.

From there, he'll get into the Willie songs he used to listen to

when he was a homeless guitar picker playing subway platforms in New York City,

and the truly wonderful way that Willie's music almost,

not quite, but almost, helped him avoid a marijuana bust a few years later.

Let's do it.

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