I think many of us have heard the incredible story of Willie smoking weed with President Jimmy Carter’s son Chip on the roof of the White House, but what happened just two days before makes the story that much more fascinating and intriguing.
On a tour with Hank Cochran in 1977, after 10 straight nights, sometimes playing two shows a night, when they finally got a two-day break, Willie and Hank headed for the Bahamas to do some deep-sea fishing on Cochran’s boat.
They were so late to the airport that their luggage didn’t make it onto their flight, and while preparing to go through customs, Willie realized there actually might be an issue and he detailed what went down in his 2015 memoir It’s a Long Story: My Life:
