Plenty of odes to drugs and stories of addiction made their way into the outlaw country songbook, from Willie Nelson‘s “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” Waylon Jennings‘ “Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out of Hand,” and Hank Williams Jr.’s “In The Arms Of Cocaine,” among others. In 1968, Johnny Cash […]
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