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, we visit with legendary Muscle Shoals bass player David Hood about a classic Willie

song that he played on, How Will I Know I'm Falling in Love Again? David is, of course,

one of the most important session players who ever lived and is a member of the Musals' Rhythm section, or as music lovers call him, the Swampers, he provided the

soulful foundation to such a known-by-heart hits as the staple singers, I'll Take You

there, Paul Simon's Cota Cron, and Bob Seeger's old-time rock and roll. But what even some

willing nerds forget is that David and the boys,

augmented by some members of Nashville's A-Team,

also backed up Willie on what me and many others

considered to be his single greatest album,

1974's Faces and Stages.

So get ready for David to explain why falling in love again

is his favorite track on phases and stages,

how producer Jerry Wexler brought the album project to Muscle Shoals in the first place,

and the weird moment when Willie first walked into the studio.

Oh, and I'll also play David a little bit of a bootleg I found of an alternative version of phases and stages.

It was recorded in Nashville after the Powers that B didn't quite get what Willie and the Swampers had done.

And boy, it's the world ever lucky that Atlantic Records decided to release the Muscle Sholes version of that album.

So let's do it. I'm falling in love again. If I say what's so great about how will I know I'm falling in love again.

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