S4 E5: Micah Nelson on "Still Is Still Moving to Me" (special Father's Day episode)

One by Willie

John Spong

Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, we ring in Father’s Day with Willie’s youngest son, singer-songwriter and visual artist Micah Nelson, who talks about “Still Is Still Moving to Me.” It was the closing track on his dad’s landmark 1993 album Across the Borderline, a high-octane, guitar-heavy anthem that kicked off the Living Legend phase of Willie’s career. Micah describes how much fun it is to play every night as part of the Family Band, before describing the drive to create he inherited from his dad, one of his dad’s favorite Roger Miller stories, and the magic of discovering old Willie records that others have forgotten.

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0:00.0	Texas Monthly.
0:07.0	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's song
0:22.1	that they really love. This week, with Father's Day just around the corner, we talked to Willie's
0:27.7	youngest son, singer, songwriter, and visual artist Micah Nelson about the song that closes his dad's
0:34.3	landmark 1993 album across the borderline, still is still moving to me.
0:40.8	It's one of those great Willie songs that seems to have everything and yet nothing to do
0:45.2	with the rest of his catalog, it's equal parts mission statement and force of nature, and it prompts
0:50.3	deep thoughts from Micah on the drive to create, one of his dad's best friends,
0:55.0	the great Roger Miller, and the magic of discovering old Willie records that other folks might have forgotten.
1:01.0	So let's do it.
1:03.0	It's art. Where we'll start is where we always start.
1:20.3	What's so cool about Still is still moving to me?
1:24.2	What's so cool about it?
1:26.0	Yeah.
1:26.7	Why'd you pick that one?
1:27.8	Well, that song has always kind of stood out to me for a lot of reasons.
1:34.0	One of them is like, it's not a love song.
1:38.4	It's not a heartbreak song or a drinking song or a cheating song or, you know,
1:42.8	it's not even really a country song but it's got
1:46.8	universal it's relatable and in that it's like a song about being a being like moving through life
1:59.1	moving through reality. Yeah.
2:01.6	And kind of looking around and, you know, like just a person with consciousness trying to figure it out.
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