Kacey Musgraves celebrated the ninth anniversary of her second studio album Material to choose from in an Instagram post on Monday, June 24, and opened up about her close relationship with country legend Willie Nelson.
The “Butterflies” singer, 35, revealed the first time she smoked weed with Nelson, 91, and how it led to her covering his song “Are You Sure” with him on her album. Musgraves recalled the first time she enjoyed some marijuana with Nelson in 2014, when she was opening for him and singer Alison Krauss on tour.
“He brought us up on his bus for a coffee and a smoke before he started his set,” Musgraves wrote in her caption. “We talked about all kinds of things… our bright westerns, conspiracy theories, aliens, his early logging business in East Texas, the history of hemp growing in the United States, and old songs.”
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Musgraves said at the time that she asked the “On the Road Again” singer if he had ever sung “Are You Sure” while on tour.
“He blew out a big puff of smoke, blinked and said, ‘Are you sure this is where you want to be?’, looking surprised that I knew about such a deep cut,” Musgraves said.[He] and then magically pulled his guitar out of nowhere.”
“I was officially on another planet at this point, hanging on the fabric of time, barely able to grasp reality and form words,” she continued. “But I managed to say ‘yes’ [and] he started strumming.”
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Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson perform in Nashville in November 2019.
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Musgraves then said they sang a song together, and Nelson then told her he would record a song with her. “Next thing I know, we’re in Austin shooting a music video,” she said, sharing photos of her and Nelson from the music video.
“He’s wearing a western suit I picked out and cheering me up with a shot of tequila,” she continued. “It’s a good thing there’s a visual record of this moment in my life – otherwise I wouldn’t have believed it wasn’t just some hazy, shimmering, desolate dream that never happened.”
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In an interview with The Cut about his sixth studio album A deeper well back in March 2024, the “Blowin’ Smoke” singer revealed that she had quit smoking weed, calling it “early 20s Kacey behavior.”
“It’s not for this chapter,” Musgraves said. “Maybe later, when I’m a 60-year-old woman who has nothing to do and just makes ceramics all day, maybe. We’ll see.”
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