Lukas Nelson Finds His Zen

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Welcome back to Nashville Now. This week our Host & Senior Editor, Joseph Hudak, fills us in on the latest trends in Country music, from artists going sober and focusing on their spirituality, to others opening up new Honky Tonks and bars in a city near you. We’re also joined by Lukas Nelson, the legendary musician and son of Willie Nelson, to talk about his new album American Romance, getting his pilot’s license, leaving weed behind and so much more on this week’s episode. Country is here, Nashville is Now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Check one, two.
0:04.0	All right.
0:05.0	Let's rolling.
0:06.0	Hey everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to this week's Nashville Now.
0:10.0	Rolling Stone's new podcast about all things country music and Americana music.
0:14.0	Roots music, you know it. It's all country. It's all Nashville.
0:17.0	Because country is here. Nashville is now.
0:20.0	Thank you for joining us. I hope you're
0:22.3	watching us on Rolling Stones YouTube channel or streaming us wherever you get your podcast.
0:28.4	This week we have a very special guest. It is Lucas Nelson. We talk about all kinds of stuff from
0:34.1	Wayland Jennings Cologne to his relationship with Shooter Jennings, spirituality,
0:39.7	and why he broke up his band, Promise of the Real. He's got his new solo album called American
0:45.1	Romance out now. We're going to talk about a lot of stuff today. Let's start today's episode
0:50.2	on a somber note. We lost two legends just this past week in the country music world.
0:57.5	One was Jeannie Seeley.
0:59.6	She was a grand old opera member who played more than 5,300 shows at the Opry.
1:06.5	She was inducted in 1967 and she was the first woman to ever wear a mini skirt on the grand old
1:13.9	opera stage she was a real firecracker I had the opportunity to meet her a few times
1:18.0	and she could not have been more charming check out her song don't touch me if you've never
1:23.8	heard it before it is superb country music don't touch me if you've never heard it before. It is superb country music. Don't touch me if you don't love me, sweetheart.
1:36.6	The other big loss this week was Flaco Jimenez.
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