One evening in early March 2020, the singer and his wife, Annie, were sitting outside the sprawling log cabin residence at their ranch in Spicewood, Texas, in the Hill Country about 30 miles northwest of Austin. Still, some close calls are closer than others. “Last night I had a dream that I died twice yesterday,” he sang in 2017, “But I woke up still not dead again today.” Now, in his late 80s, he has reached the age where getting out of bed each morning can be construed as a feat of survival. Smoking has endangered his life, but it also, he thinks, saved it: He has often said that he would have died long ago had he not taken up weed and laid off drinking, which made him rowdy and self-destructive. He underwent a voluntary stem-cell procedure in 2015, in an effort to repair his damaged lungs. In 1981, he was taken to a hospital in Hawaii after his left lung collapsed while he was swimming. In 1969, when his home in Ridgetop, Tenn., caught fire, he raced into the burning house to save two prized possessions, his guitar and a pound of “Colombian grass.” He has emphysema, the consequence of a near-lifetime of chain smoking that began in childhood, when he puffed on cedar bark and grapevines, before turning to cigarettes and then - famously, prodigiously - to marijuana. Willie Nelson has a long history of tempting, and cheating, death. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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