S3 E5: Mickey Raphael on "The Words Don't Fit The Picture"
This week, Willie\u2019s longtime harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, talks about a song Willie cut not long before leaving Nashville for good in 1972, the aptly titled \u201cThe Words Don\u2019t Fit the Picture.\u201d Mickey was just a sideman on the Dallas folkie scene when he first heard it, and it\u2019s the song that made him want to play with Willie. He talks about that experience, plus what his fifty-plus years with Willie have been like, from joining the band to shows they played until dawn, mysterious stowaways who spent days on the bus, he and Willie\u2019s onstage telepathy...and how their half-century of friendship changed his life.