Episode Transcript: #2348 - Lukas Nelson
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we're up Lucas what's up good to talk to you man thanks for being here here yeah I appreciate you
having me I gotta tell you you know when I heard Willie Nelson's kid plays music there's a thing
that you always do and I have to admit it you do it like when the son of a great man you always assume
well yeah he's probably mediocre you know I mean and then you performed at McConaughey's that
charity function thing and you fucking killed it man you blew me away it was incredible and I was
like wow it was really cool to see man it was really exciting it was really fun you know you
were the highlight of the night man you really were it's moments like those where I started to
gain confidence you know I'd have over the years I'd go out and play and play my songs that I've
written and when I get crowds that would do that you know and so that gave me the confidence to keep
going and and and I first started playing music in order to get closer to my father oh wow you know
what I mean so I I he would be gone all the time right and I'd be missing him and uh and so in order
to get close to him I figured I need to speak the same musical language and uh and so I learned young
and I wrote a song young uh that's on the new album actually I got it's called you were it's the first
song I ever wrote when I was 11 and my dad loved it so much that he covered it at the time and he put it
out on his album back in 2004 called it always will be the the album was called it always will be
and that gave me the confidence at a young age Chris Christofferson came up to me and he's like man you
don't have a choice but to be a songwriter and so I had all this inspiration at a young age
kind of like an athlete at a certain point you kind of have to look at like oh well if I have a talent
at this I have I have connections in the industry I need to work like I was going to go to the Olympics