S2 E9: Sheryl Crow on Crazy (special Willies Bday episode)

Published: April 29, 2021, 9:20 a.m.

b'This week, we celebrate Willie\\u2019s 88th birthday with singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, who discusses what may be the single best-known song that Willie ever wrote, \\u201cCrazy.\\u201d She\\u2019ll walk us through what it means to compose a pop standard, explaining the differences she hears in Patsy Cline\\u2019s original, 1961 version and the one that Willie still does nightly, but she\\u2019ll also describe what it does to her heart when she hears her 10-year-old son singing \\u201cCrazy\\u201d in the kitchen. And then she\\u2019ll get into her long friendship with Willie\\u2026and that time he tried to pass a backstage joint to her dad.'