Watch Out! Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard – ‘Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash’ [VIDEO]

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard - Missing Ol' Johnny Cash

Another charming, behind-the-scenes music videos in a series showing Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard working on their new collaboration ‘Django and Jimmie’ at Willie’s studio in Luck, Texas.

Thats Django as in the legendary gypsy-jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and Jimmie as in Jimmie Rodgers, the vaudevillian dandy turned mythic “Singing Brakeman.”

Each a personal musical influance to the respective Willie and Merle.

Featured in the video are the main men along with Willie’s longtime producer, collaborator and friend Buddy Cannon. Bobby Bare joins his old friends as a recording on the song ‘Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash’ is a honky-tonker that allows the men to reminiscence about the times with the Man in Black.

Merle describes his approach to writing the song like this ‘It was just some words that I had some chords to. Not really a melody to it, just kinda rapping.”

I sounds more like talking blues to me but I’m hardly one to argue with The Hag.

There’s some great stories throughout including a NSFW one at the end told by Merle.

‘Django and Jimmie’ is out now.

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