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 song that they

really love. This week, another installment in our special four-episode mini-season of the podcast

that we're calling One by Willie Live from Luck. That's right. These are interviews taped this

past March at Willie's Ranch slash Golf Course slash Old West Town with four artists who'd come to

play his annual luck reunion and that we recorded in an old Bowles Arrow camper trailer to Willie's

great nephew-in-law Joe tricked out just for these conversations and parked about 100 yards from

the main stage. And if by chance you're having a hard time picture and how cool

that was, you need to get to the next big show and luck and check it out for yourself. This week,

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Steve Gunn, who actually first made his name in the indie rock world

as a brilliant guitar player, talks about his favorite song on A Red-Headed Stranger, Hands on the

Wheel. That album is, of stranger, Hands on the Wheel.

That album is, of course, set in the Old West, and it's Willie's first great statement on sin,

revenge, and redemption. Well, Hands on the Wheel is the track where he wraps all that up,

and Steve talks about the way Willie uses some incredibly settled guitar playing to bring a quiet,

ruminative end to the tail.

And then from there we'll get into where Steve hears

Django Reinhardt's influence and Willie's picking

and why Trigger sounds like no other guitar in the world.

So let's do it.

It's art.

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