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Originally Posted by FalconP  I was thinking about his "Yesterday's Wine" album. Very touching semi-autobiographic stuff.
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Falcon, I was just looking over this thread and noticed your recommendation. I'll have to check out "Yesterday's Wine." It got me to thinking about Willie's more recent song, "Too Sick to Pray." That always just knocked me over. It's a gospel song, and yet Willie treats God like a pal or a peer who--when life's too heavy a burden--he just has to put off till he feels better. It's a ballsy thing to do a semi-straight spiritual where you make your own terms in your personal relationship with God, like he was your agent or your drummer. When Willie does his prayerful requests, all he asks for is for Himself to "Remember the family" when Willie's too wore out to take care of them. And quite beneficently, Willie ends the conversation too, when he's had his say: ". . .And thank you, my friend,/ We'll be talking again,/ If I'm not too sick to pray."
