We wanted to run this story after reading this article about Willie written by Adam Iscoe in The New Yorker magazine over a year ago, Then today we got this email about his new album and we decided we had to post it.
Willie Nelson, the ninety-one-year-old singer-songwriter, who has brought comfort and heartbreak and joy to his fans with a hundred and fifty-three albums, thirteen books, and more than a couple of arrests for marijuana possession, will soon publish his first-ever cookbook. The concoctions in “Willie and Annie Nelson’s Cannabis Cookbook: Mouthwatering Recipes and the High-Flying Stories Behind Them” include Shirred Eggs with Asparagus &Fennel (17.6 milligrams of THC per serving), Vegan Cannabis Butter (212 milligrams of THC per tablespoon), and 
Buttermilk Fried Chicken (no THC). The stories veer from recollections of a Christmas he spent in the Alps with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson to an account of a harsh winter, in Tennessee, when he bought seventeen weaner pigs at a quarter a pound, then sold them at a loss.
“I learned one thing—I’m not a hog raiser,” Nelson recalled the other day at Luck, his dusty ranch in the Texas Hill Country. He was at his “world headquarters,” a building used mostly for playing poker, watching MSNBC, drinking, and getting high. The inside was decorated with cardboard cutouts of Gene Autry and John Wayne (“My heroes!”), a “Willie for President” license plate, and some signed Snoop Dogg memorabilia. Nelson glanced over at a Doggy Dogg poster and said, “I smoked him under the table one night!” (Snoop confirmed: “Willie Nelson is the only person who has ever outsmoked Snoop Dogg!”)
You can read the rest on The New Yorker website. Click HERE.