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S5 E8: Wade Bowen on “Me and Paul”
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Mar 20, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week, one of the brightest stars of the Texas Country/Red Dirt scene, singer-songwriter Wade Bowen, examines “Me and Paul,” Willie’s 1971 chronicle of the road-warrior life he was sharing with his erstwhile partner in crime, drummer Paul English. It’s a perfect song for Wade to get into, partly because, as he rightly points out, Willie was a progenitor of the circuit where he makes his living now, but also because of the setting for our visit: Wade zoomed in from his tour bus, which was broken down somewhere in Iowa on his way to a gig.
Released:
Mar 20, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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