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One by Willie

Sheryl Crow on “Crazy” (special Willie’s birthday episode)

One by Willie

John Spong

Willie Nelson, Music, Music History, Music Commentary, Guitar, Spong, Music Interviews, Society & Culture, Austin, Texas Monthly, Country Music, Arts, Americana, Songwriting, Outlaw Country

4.6898 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, we celebrate Willie’s 88th birthday with singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, who discusses what may be the single best-known song that Willie ever wrote, “Crazy.” She’ll walk us through what it means to compose a pop standard, explaining the differences she hears in Patsy Cline’s original, 1961 version and the one that Willie still does nightly, but she’ll also describe what it does to her heart when she hears her 10-year-old son singing “Crazy” in the kitchen. And then she’ll get into her long friendship with Willie…and that time he tried to pass a backstage joint to her dad.

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and we are brought to you by Still Austin Craft Whiskey

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with additional generous support from Toccova's Boots.

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Music additional generous support from Toccova's Boots. Hey there, I'm John Spong with Texas Monthly Magazine, and this is a special

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birthday episode of One by Willie, a podcast in

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which I talk each week to one notable Willie Nelson fan about one Willie song that they really

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love. This week, we celebrate Willie's 88th birthday by talking to singer, songwriter, and bona fide

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rock star Cheryl Crowe about what may be the single best known song

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that Willie ever wrote, Crazy.

1:31.8

She'll walk us through what it means to compose a standard, a song that everybody wants to sing,

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explaining, for instance, the difference she hears in Patsy Klein's original version and the one

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that Willie still does nightly.

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But she'll also talk about what it does to her heart

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when she hears her 10-year-old son singing crazy in the kitchen.

1:49.0

And then she'll get into how much her long friendship with Willie means to her

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