S5 E5: Bruce Robison on Walkin
b'Singer-songwriter Bruce Robison is famous for writing highly intelligent, richly detailed country songs\\u2014that happen also to be incredibly sad. (See \\u201cAngry All the Time,\\u201d by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, and \\u201cTravelin\\u2019 Soldier,\\u201d by the Chicks.) This week, he focuses on a track that first taught him how emotionally sophisticated country music can be, \\u201cWalkin,\\u2019\\u201d off Willie\\u2019s 1974 masterpiece, Phases and Stages...before describing his own Willie tribute song, \\u201cWhat Would Willie Do,\\u201d and the weird reception Willie got in Bruce\\u2019s hometown, rural Bandera, Texas, when he moved his band and family there after fleeing Nashville in 1971. (Hint: The hippies and rednecks didn\\u2019t start getting along until Willie got to Austin a year later.)'