S4 E7: Ray Benson on "Going Away Party"
This week, 8-time Grammy-winner Ray Benson\u2014one of Willie\u2019s best friends since moving his Western Swing band, Asleep at the Wheel, to Austin back in 1973...at Willie\u2019s urging, no less!\u2014talks about a song Willie and the Wheel cut back in 1999, the Bob Wills classic, \u201cGoing Away Party.\u201d Wills was, of course, a hero to both Willie and Ray, as was the song\u2019s composer, the great Cindy Walker, who Ray calls one of the single greatest influences on Willie\u2019s own songwriting. From there he\u2019ll describe fifty years of friendship and collaboration with Willie, with cameos by George Gershwin, Floyd Tillman, and Robert Duvall.