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Willie Nelson talks about grief, legalizing marijuana and that Beyoncé collaboration

The country icon spoke with NBC News about his heartbreaking new album, "Last Leaf on the Tree," which comes out Friday.

Over just the past few years, he has mourned Kristofferson and other close friends like Toby Keith and Loretta Lynn, his longtime drummer Paul English and his elder sister and touring pianist, Bobbie Nelson. “He produced it, picked all the songs, and he played all the instruments and made the video, did the artwork, animation,” Willie said of his son, who this summer joined Neil Young and Crazy Horse on tour as a guitarist. In recent weeks, he has stumped for Harris and Texas Senate candidate Colin Allred at a series of public events and urged his fans to support ballot initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida and decriminalize it in Dallas.

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