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 kick off season three with none other than singer,

songwriter, superstar Casey Musgraves, who's here to talk about Are You Sure?

It's a pretty obscure Willie song, a deep cut off his 1965 album Country Willie, his own songs, that he

recorded for RCA Records with producer Chet Atkins. But hardcore Willie Nerds will also know

it from his 1961 demo for the Pampor Music Publishing Company, and hardcore Casey Nerds will

know it from the duet she and Willie did on it for her great 2015 album

pageant material. It prompts her to open up on what she calls real-ass country music,

the lucky joint, Willie gave her on the bus one night, and that scary, surreal night she sang Rainbow

Connection with Willie at the CMAs a few years back.

And when she also does the most spot-on Owen Wilson impression that you're going to hear all year.

But one word of caution, Casey throws around enough F-bombs to make Steve Earle shudder.

Listener discretion is advised.

Let's do it.

Hey, it's hard.

Look around you. Look down the bar from you at the faces that you see.

Are you sure this is where you want to be? then the place to start is what's so great about the willie song are you sure you will be hard pressed to find a more real ass song than willie nelson

well willie nelson and buddyons is, are you sure this is

where you want to be? I remember when I heard it, I thought, holy shit, this is so blunt and so

to the point and so simple and I just fell in love with it. Yeah, and it's a short story. You know,

it's, you have no idea what went wrong in this relationship, but Willie is sitting in a bar

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