Beyonce's 'Smoke Hour' Collaboration With Willie Nelson Is Not at All What We Expected
Willie Nelson appears on Beyonce‘s new country album, Cowboy Carter, not once, but multiple times — but their collaboration is not remotely what fans expected. The 90-year-old country icon appears on several tracks, not as a singer, but as a narrator of sorts, providing voiceovers that draw from his own roots as a Texas DJ. Nelson originally broke into country music as a disc jockey in Texas before he made his way to Nashville to become a top songwriter and, eventually, an artist in his own right. He appears on Beyonce’s much-anticipated Cowboy Carter on a track titled “Smoke Hour,” which, giv...