S2 E6: Shakey Graves on "Always On My Mind"

Published: March 30, 2021, 9 a.m.

b"Singer-songwriter Shakey Graves\\u2014who answers to Alejandro Rose-Garcia when he\\u2019s not onstage\\u2014discusses Willie\\u2019s biggest pop hit singing solo, \\u201cAlways on My Mind.\\u201d It had been one of Elvis Presley\\u2019s signature songs of the '70s before Willie covered it in 1982, and Alejandro explains how Willie managed to pull off the impossible: stealing a song from Elvis. Then he describes the undying appeal of a good power ballad and that surreal time he signed Willie\\u2019s guitar."