One by Willie – Details, episodes & analysis

Podcast details

Technical and general information from the podcast's RSS feed.

One by Willie

One by Willie

Texas Monthly

Music

Frequency: 1 episode/27d. Total Eps: 70

Spreaker
In “One by Willie,” Texas Monthly’s John Spong hosts intimate conversations with a range of prominent guests about the Willie Nelson songs that mean the most to them. But this series isn’t just about the songs. It’s about what music really means to us—the ways it can change us, take care of us, and connect us all. Songs featured in the episodes can be found on Apple Music. Listen here.
Site
RSS
Apple

Recent rankings

Latest chart positions across Apple Podcasts and Spotify rankings.

Apple Podcasts

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    29/07/2025
    #31

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    28/07/2025
    #45

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    27/07/2025
    #61

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    26/07/2025
    #46

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    25/07/2025
    #33

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    24/07/2025
    #26

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    23/07/2025
    #42

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    22/07/2025
    #43

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    21/07/2025
    #34

  • 🇺🇸 USA - musicCommentary

    20/07/2025
    #31
Spotify

    No recent rankings available

RSS feed quality and score

Technical evaluation of the podcast's RSS feed quality and structure.

See all
RSS feed quality
Good

Score global : 79%

Publication history

Monthly episode publishing history over the past years.

Episodes published by month in

Latest published episodes

Recent episodes with titles, durations, and descriptions.

See all

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

Season 5 · Episode 10

mercredi 3 avril 2024 • Duration 33:25

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.”

S5 E9: Lana Nelson on “Red Headed Stranger”

Season 5 · Episode 9

mercredi 27 mars 2024 • Duration 41:15

This week, Willie’s first-born, daughter Lana Nelson, talks about one of the songs her dad used to sing to her at bedtime, “Red Headed Stranger,” calling his breakthrough 1975 recording of it one of the first times an album of his sounded the way he did at home. From there she’ll walk us through some wonderful family history...like dodging rent-hungry landlords during the lean years, her dad’s hog farm/commune outside Nashville through the RCA years, and the session with Merle Haggard that produced “Pancho and Lefty.”

S4 E10: Dave Cobb on "Time Of The Preacher"

Season 4 · Episode 10

vendredi 25 août 2023 • Duration 31:17

This week, Nashville super-producer Dave Cobb, whose work with some of the true artists in
modern country music—Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlisle, Jason Isbell—has earned him nine Grammys, talks about “Time of the Preacher.” It’s the overture/aria to Willie’s classic Red Headed Stranger, an album that Dave calls a beautiful, barren landscape, and it gets him thinking about Pink Floyd, the real definition of “outlaw,” and the most important instrument an artist can take into the studio: A belief in themselves.

Don’t Give Up: When Sinead O'Connor Sang With Willie

Season 4 · Episode 9

mardi 1 août 2023 • Duration 05:13

On October 16, 1992, just two weeks after famously ripping up a photo of the pope on SNL, Sinead O’Connor was booed off the stage at a Bob Dylan tribute at Madison Square Garden. Willie Nelson was also on the bill that night, and after watching that happen, he invited her to join him in the studio the next day. In this clip from OBW S2E2, producer Don Was gives the story behind the duet they recorded, a cover of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush’s “Don’t Give Up.”

S4 E9: Waylon Payne on "Both Sides Now"

Season 4 · Episode 9

vendredi 21 juillet 2023 • Duration 30:48

This week, Americana singer-songwriter Waylon Payne talks about Willie’s 1970 cover of Joni Mitchell’s iconic “Both Sides Now.” Waylon, an NPR-darling as an artist now, grew up in Willie World; his mom, Sammi Smith—of “Help Me Make It Through the Night” fame—played package shows with Willie in the ‘70s; and his dad, Jody Payne, was Willie’s lead guitarist for almost forty years. Waylon walks us through all that, describing the way Willie songs were his lullabies as a kid, the incredibly difficult personal trials when he says Willie saved his life, and the time Willie paid his songwriting the highest praise possible. Note: the compliment wasn’t remotely suitable for small ears.

S4 E8: Chris Shiflett on “Good Hearted Woman”

Season 4 · Episode 8

vendredi 14 juillet 2023 • Duration 36:08

This week, Foo Fighters lead guitarist and Shred with Shifty podcast host Chris Shiflett discusses one of the original outlaw anthems, Willie and Waylon’s 1976 version of “Good Hearted Woman,” exploring the evolution of the movement and the creation myth behind the song’s recording, before grabbing a guitar and demonstrating what makes Willie an absolute one-of-a-kind guitar player.

S4 E7: Ray Benson on "Going Away Party"

Season 4 · Episode 7

vendredi 30 juin 2023 • Duration 32:44

This week, 8-time Grammy-winner Ray Benson—one of Willie’s best friends since moving his Western Swing band, Asleep at the Wheel, to Austin back in 1973...at Willie’s urging, no less!—talks about a song Willie and the Wheel cut back in 1999, the Bob Wills classic, “Going Away Party.” Wills was, of course, a hero to both Willie and Ray, as was the song’s composer, the great Cindy Walker, who Ray calls one of the single greatest influences on Willie’s own songwriting. From there he’ll describe fifty years of friendship and collaboration with Willie, with cameos by George Gershwin, Floyd Tillman, and Robert Duvall.

S4 E6: Amanda Shires on "Loving You"

Season 4 · Episode 6

vendredi 23 juin 2023 • Duration 35:06

This week, singer-songwriter and virtuoso fiddle player Amanda Shires talks about the title song to her new album of duets with Willie’s sister, pianist Bobbie Nelson, “Loving You.” It’s the only song Sister Bobbie ever wrote, a solo piano instrumental with a melody that Amanda says is all about love, faith, and family. She also talks about how Bobbie was one of her heroes long before they became friends and made this record, a role model as a trailblazing female in a male-dominated industry, as a musician more generally, as a mom...and just as a person.

S4 E5: Micah Nelson on "Still Is Still Moving to Me" (special Father's Day episode)

Season 4 · Episode 5

vendredi 16 juin 2023 • Duration 35:00

This week, we ring in Father’s Day with Willie’s youngest son, singer-songwriter and visual artist Micah Nelson, who talks about “Still Is Still Moving to Me.” It was the closing track on his dad’s landmark 1993 album Across the Borderline, a high-octane, guitar-heavy anthem that kicked off the Living Legend phase of Willie’s career. Micah describes how much fun it is to play every night as part of the Family Band, before describing the drive to create he inherited from his dad, one of his dad’s favorite Roger Miller stories, and the magic of discovering old Willie records that others have forgotten.

S4 E4: Brené Brown on "Amazing Grace"

Season 4 · Episode 4

vendredi 9 juin 2023 • Duration 47:42

Dr. Brené Brown is a researcher, storyteller, and best-selling author known for her work on vulnerability, shame, and empathy—though many of her fans just call her “an inspiration.” On this week’s OBW, she talks about Willie’s 1976 cover of “Amazing Grace” and the way her life was completely transformed the first time she heard it...before we move into the song’s history; her lifelong love of Willie; the concepts of faith, grace, and acceptance, more generally; and the most powerful performance of “Amazing Grace” she’s ever heard.

Related Shows Based on Content Similarities

Discover shows related to One by Willie, based on actual content similarities. Explore podcasts with similar topics, themes, and formats, backed by real data.
Sound Opinions
Texas Monthly True Crime: The Problem With Erik
One by Willie
The Final Flight of Captain Forrester
© My Podcast Data
About usPrivacy Policy