nothing but bluebirds from now on larry: never saw the sun shining so bright never saw things going to right working in the day, worry at night, when you re in love, my how it flies blue skies, blue days all of them gone, nothing but blue skies from now on larry: as we go to break, here s a look at willie on the road again in concert. well, hello there! whiskey river take my mind, don t let her memory torture me
titled who will buy my memories: the irs tapes. don t forget that. how do you stand now? oh, i m fine. yeah, i think i m pretty well paid up. larry: was that tough going, though? how did you come to owe that much? well, i had invested in some tax shelters for many, many years ago, you know, the cattle feeding things, and all those different things that at some point the irs disallowed. and so after advising me, my financial advisers told me to go into all this, and then the irs disallowed it. so i was deferring taxes every year and putting them into the feeding cattle deal, and when they disallowed it that meant all those years went by that i hadn t paid taxes. it started out i only owed $2 million. if i d have paid them that, i would have never had a problem. larry: how do they tell you you owe $16 million? do you get a call? do you get a letter? how do they do that? i knew it was accruing rapidly over the years. larry: interest. penalties and interest every
he s become a kind of folk hero. to see willie nelson. now we re having fun! whiskey river take my mind whiskey river don t run dry you re all i got to take care of me larry: we re back with the legendary willie nelson. his new album country music will be out everywhere on tuesday. and his latest tour has started right now in vegas. you will hear from willie everywhere. some like we never hear you on country radio stations. have you been marginalized? a lot of times we ll hear you on the pop stations, but country
don t fight it, don t spite it, just wait until tomorrow, maybe he ll ride on again larry: we re back with the great willie nelson. the album country music will be out this tuesday. we re having a great time tonight with one of the truly great american artists, who is an avid golfer. can you smoke pot and golf? sure. larry: okay. i can t play any worse than i normally do anyway. larry: are you a good player? no. larry: why do you like golf so much? oh, i don t know. it s just a place to get out and walk around outside. that s originally the reason i started doing it. i moved down to lost valley in bandera, and they had a golf course there. and it was just me and my band. my house had burned, so we moved
at meineke, you re always the driver. don t knock it until you ve tried it, well, i ve tried it my friend and i ll never smoke weed with willie again larry: my guest, the great willie nelson. don t forget, that terrific album will be out tuesday, and he is on tour right now. he is a long-time advocate of legalizing marijuana. there are a lot of people in that ballpark now. the late william f. buckley was one of the leaders of that movement. california and other states are talking about legalizing it so they can tax it. you think it s ever going to happen? sure. it s just a matter of time and a matter of the economy. i think the way the economy is now it s helping it to come along, because if you do tax it and regulate it, there is a lot of money there that can be used for whatever we need it for, for