Before Powell left Guelph he called me up to give me a bunch of old records he had in his house. I took all the Neil Young, the Stones and the Clash.

And a Willie Nelson album.

That Willie Nelson album led me to Merle Haggard, who is my kind of country artist. Beer, whisky, horses and trucks. 

Merle died today, and while Pancho and Lefty is probably Willie and Merle’s most famous collaboration, one of my favorite albums of 2015 was Django and Jimmie.