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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Before he received wide acclaim as Bob Dylan’s lead guitarist in the early 2000s, Charlie Sexton was a fixture of the Austin music scene going back almost as far as Willie himself, having first performed publicly in 1978, as a self-taught, nine-year-old, guitar prodigy invited onstage at the famous Continental Club. This week, Charlie the producer/bandleader/singer-songwriter nerds all the way out on one of Willie’s extra-obscure, early-60’s Pamper Demos, “I Let My Mind Wander,” a recording he considers a perfect example of real-deal, steel-driven, jukebox country music. But then, because we were recording our conversation in one of Willie’s old haunts, Arlyn Studios, he gets into his own experiences as a precocious preteen dragging his guitar through Willie World, before giving a little insight into how much his old boss, Bob Dylan, loves Willie Nelson.
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0:56.6 | Hey there, I'm John Spong, and this is One by Willie, a podcast in which I talk each week |
1:02.2 | to one notable Willie Nelson fan about one Willie song that they really love. |
1:07.2 | This week, we talked to a guitarist, producer, and all-around rock and roll man-about town Charlie Sexton |
1:13.6 | about another of Willie's old pampered demos, I Let My Mind Wander, which is a song that Charlie calls a perfect example of old-time steel guitar driven jukebox country. |
1:23.6 | Now there are about a dozen different ways you might know, Charlie. He's logged years as Bob Dylan's |
1:29.4 | lead guitarist and, more recently, played the same role with Elvis Costello. He produced Lucinda Williams' |
1:35.7 | exquisite 2001 album Essence, and he led the early 90s blues rock supergroup The Archangels with |
1:43.0 | Stevie Ray Vaughn's old double trouble rhythm section. |
1:46.1 | But he's actually been a fixture of the Austin music scene almost as long as Willie himself, |
1:50.6 | having first played publicly in 1978 as a self-taught nine-year-old guitar prodigy |
1:56.9 | invited up on stage at the famous Continental Club. |
2:00.6 | And that's one of the things that made this conversation so special. |
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