S5 E9: Lana Nelson on Red Headed Stranger
This week, Willie\u2019s first-born, daughter Lana Nelson, talks about one of the songs her dad used to sing to her at bedtime, \u201cRed Headed Stranger,\u201d calling his breakthrough 1975 recording of it one of the first times an album of his sounded the way he did at home. From there she\u2019ll walk us through some wonderful family history...like dodging rent-hungry landlords during the lean years, her dad\u2019s hog farm/commune outside Nashville through the RCA years, and the session with Merle Haggard that produced \u201cPancho and Lefty.\u201d