S5 E10: Lucinda Williams on “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground”

One by Willie

John Spong

Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, one of America’s greatest living poets, singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, celebrates the easy beauty of one of Willie’s most cherished songs, “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground.” From there she’ll get into how inspiring it was to first see Willie do his thing when she moved to Austin in 1974; how weird it was, when she moved back to Austin in the 80s, to live in a run-down apartment complex-cum-artist’s colony that Willie owned on South Congress—sharing it with the old boyfriend, Clyde Woodward, she would immortalize in her song, “Lake Charles”—and what an absolute honor it was, twenty years later, to cut a duet with Willie on another of her songs, “Overtime.”

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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 song that they really love.
0:23.2	This week, we talked to one of America's greatest, most beloved poets, Lucinda Williams,
0:28.9	who's going to give us a songwriter's examination of Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground.
0:34.4	From there, she's going to get into how shocking it was to first see Willie doing
0:38.1	his thing when she moved to Austin in 1974, how weird it was later in the 80s to live in an
0:44.5	apartment complex Willie owned on South Congress, where she lived, by the way, with the old
0:49.0	boyfriend, Clyde Woodward, who inspired her song Lake Charles. And then what an absolute honor it was to cut a duet
0:56.8	with Willie on a song she wrote herself overtime so let's do it you had not a fallen
1:05.3	but I would not have found you Angel flying too close to the ground
1:16.6	It's you!
1:18.6	Oh, great!
1:20.6	It's you!
1:21.6	It is so great to see you.
1:24.6	Wow.
1:25.6	I've got my Austin shirt on.
1:28.8	But seriously, I don't even mean it casually.
1:31.9	Mark Rothbaum a few weeks ago, Willie's longtime manager, said you have to get Lucinda.
1:36.5	Yeah.
1:36.8	We dreamt this up three years ago.
1:39.8	Yeah.
1:41.0	And you've just been kind of one of the brass ring guests the whole time.
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