Wynonna Judd on "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"

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

4.6 • 898 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Country music legend Wynonna Judd first heard “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” as a young girl splitting her time between her mom’s house in Los Angeles and her grandparents' home in rural Kentucky. It was Willie’s first #1 single and the song that finally made him a star, and on this episode of One By Willie, she talks about hearing it on the radio when she was first discovering music, about hanging out backstage with Willie at the CMA awards once the Judds—Wynonna and her mother, Naomi—became stars themselves, and about how kind Willie was when Wynonna introduced him to her grandmother.

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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.
0:23.0	And on this episode, country music legend Winona Judd talks about one of Willie's best-loved songs,
0:29.3	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.
0:31.3	It was, of course, his first number one single back in 1975, and it makes Wynonna think about
0:37.2	being a
0:37.9	young girl
0:38.4	listening to the
0:39.2	radio at her
0:39.9	grandparents' home
0:40.8	in Kentucky,
0:42.0	about hanging
0:42.6	with Willie
0:43.2	backstage at the
0:44.2	CMA Awards
0:44.9	once she'd
0:45.4	finally made it
0:46.2	and how sweet
0:47.3	Willie was when
0:48.2	he met her
0:48.6	grandmother.
0:49.9	Let's do it.
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