Let’s put it another way. Back when the first musical recordings were made in Texas around 1924 or 1925, by folks like Lloyd Finlay, Fatty Martin, and Jimmy Joy, were a raggedy, dope-smoking hippie like Nelson happen to appear on a streetcorner of some towns like Anson, Zavalla, Coleman, Westphalia, Ben Wheeler, Archer City, or any other Texan town... would he have gotten a reception much different than that of the Santa Claus bandit in Eastland in 1929?
Willy has smoked so much he can sell his dried crap for $1,000 a pound.