Garden & Gun

Hick-Hop Harmony

I didn’t even know that Snoop Dogg, the rapper, and Willie Nelson, the Willie, had cut a record or two together. I knew that Willie was woke—in his song “Still Not Dead,” he sings, “I woke up still not dead again today,” which I have adopted as my a.m. anthem. And I have felt good toward Snoop since I watched his commentary on an online video of

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