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, Grammy-nominated Americana country star Margo Price takes a look at Angel

flying too close to the ground. That song was a country number one for Willie in 1980, and it

prompts from Margot some deep thinking on the difference between writing a sad song

and feeling the need just to sit and listen to one.

From there, she talks about what it was like to record one of her own sad songs as a duet

with Willie at his Perdinalla studio, and then she tells one of Willie's favorite dirty jokes.

Viewer discretion is advised, and with that, let's get into it.

If you had not have fallen, but I would not have found you, angel flying too close to the ground.

What's angel flying too close to the ground?

Oh my goodness.

It's a classic Willie song.

The most poetic kind of almost surreal lyrics.

You know, I think it's about losing someone that you love. And I mean,

it's just masterclass in songwriting and playing in originality. Just, I don't know, it just

knocked me on the ground when I first heard it, you know. When would that have been?

It's three years older than you, so when did you discover it?

Yeah.

I think, you know, that was one that I kind of found later on my own because I don't know.

You know, it's like growing up, it was always like on the road again and those kind of classic

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