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's song that they

really love. This week, we talked to one of Willie's longtime tourmates, Grammy-winning blues singer

and guitarist Susan Tedesky, about another song of his 1998 collaboration with Daniel Lamois,

Teatro, and this time the song is, Somebody Pick Up My Pieces.

It's the song she frequently plays live with the Tadesky Trucks band,

which is the group she leads with her husband, guitarist, Derek Trucks,

and it gets her thinking aloud on a couple of foundational principles of Willie World,

namely the importance of family and of making music with people you love.

With memorable cameos by the Alman Brothers,

Jessica Simpson, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,

and Emmylou Harris, who Susan says is a Jedi.

So let's do it.

It's all right.

Somebody at Pistons. Somebody pick up my pieces I'm scattered Somebody pick up my pieces I'm scattered everywhere

And put me back together and put me way over there.

And put me way over there.

All right, well, as I say, you know, where we always start, what's so cool about somebody pick up my pieces?

Well, a lot of things are cool about this song.

Actually, I first really learned about the song when I was doing Willie's 85th birthday in Nashville.

He was doing a performance at Bridgestone and had a bunch of

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