Texas Monthly.

Hey there, I'm John Spong with Texas Monthly magazine, and this is One by a 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, Dr. Bray Brown, the internationally regarded researcher, storyteller, and

bestselling author who built her career studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy,

is going to talk about Willie's sublime, 1976 version of Amazing Grace.

Now, I should note here that Dr. Brown's fans and friends, just call her Brunay,

and I suspect they shorthand that list of heady job descriptions to simply inspiration.

Well, for my money, that's exactly what she's fixing to do with us.

Inspire.

She's going to describe how listening to

Willie's version of Amazing Grace completely transformed her life, helping her finally understand

how to live with fear and uncertainty, before then getting into the way that music connected

Willie and Sister Bobby, and really all of us, if we'll let it, and then she's going to go even

deeper into ideas on faith and the concept of grace itself.

And we'll also be discussing at the close of the episode,

the single most powerful performance of Amazing Grace

that either one of us has ever witnessed.

So let's do it.

It's our.

Thank you. It's hard Amazing grace How sweet the sound

Well, so to start, we've opened pretty much every show the same way, which is with this kind of flippant, facetious question for me, where I say, hey, what's so cool about song X?

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