Favorite Folk...

[WillyCamaro]

[btrwtr]

Townes was a great talent and he wrote some awesome lyrics. I cover a couple of his songs and peope always ask who wrote them. More people should know. Always loved his cover of Dead Flowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lge0ZnSEI

[WillyCamaro]

[Stanwade]

I love this version..it haunts me... this was my brother's favorite song (Willy and Merle cover), he passed when I was 12...I can't watch this video or hear any version without memories flooding back, maybe a few tears, too.. that's the beautiful thing about good music --it can spark a flood of emotions or memories in an instant, happy or sad...

[Stanwade]

Townes was a great talent and he wrote some awesome lyrics. I cover a couple of his songs and peope always ask who wrote them. More people should know. Always loved his cover of Dead Flowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lge0ZnSEI

Which ones do you cover?

[WillyCamaro]

I love this version..it haunts me... this was my brother's favorite song (Willy and Merle cover), he passed when I was 12...I can't watch this video or hear any version without memories flooding back, maybe a few tears, too.. that's the beautiful thing about good music --it can spark a flood of emotions or memories in an instant, happy or sad...

[btrwtr]

Townes was a great talent and he wrote some awesome lyrics. I cover a couple of his songs and peope always ask who wrote them. More people should know. Always loved his cover of Dead Flowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lge0ZnSEI

Which ones do you cover?

No Place to Fall and Don't Take it Too Bad are two of my favorites.

When I lived in Houston area it was a short trip to Galveston and the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe that is owned by Wrecks Bell (Rex's Blues). Rex was a friend of Townes and played bass with him at times. Guy Clark, Townes VanZant, Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle were all part of a cool Texas music scene that makes me wish I was a bit older so I could have seen it happen. Robert Earl Keen and Lucinda Williams are two more great Texas singer songwriters I like to cover. Lucky to have seen them both a few times.

The Old Quarter in Galveston as well as Dan Electro's Guitar Bar and The Last Concert Cafe in Houston are great places to hear live music in a small dive atmosphere. I miss Texas for this and many other reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9CDumFYngw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0_AVhv ... rt_radio=1

[WillyCamaro]

Townes was a great talent and he wrote some awesome lyrics. I cover a couple of his songs and peope always ask who wrote them. More people should know. Always loved his cover of Dead Flowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lge0ZnSEI

Which ones do you cover?

No Place to Fall and Don't Take it Too Bad are two of my favorites.

When I lived in Houston area it was a short trip to Galveston and the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe that is owned by Wrecks Bell (Rex's Blues). Rex was a friend of Townes and played bass with him at times. Guy Clark, Townes VanZant, Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle were all part of a cool Texas music scene that makes me wish I was a bit older so I could have seen it happen. Robert Earl Keen and Lucinda Williams are two more great Texas singer songwriters I like to cover.

The Old Quarter in Galveston as well as Dan Electro's Guitar Bar and The Last Concert Cafe in Houston are great places to hear live music in a small dive atmosphere. I miss Texas for this and many other reasons.

Wow mate, what wonderful stories sir!
And it's great to meet another fellow musician such as yourself. Hope we someday can get together, yack a bit, jam a little, share some stories, and knives!

[btrwtr]

Which ones do you cover?

No Place to Fall and Don't Take it Too Bad are two of my favorites.

When I lived in Houston area it was a short trip to Galveston and the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe that is owned by Wrecks Bell (Rex's Blues). Rex was a friend of Townes and played bass with him at times. Guy Clark, Townes VanZant, Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle were all part of a cool Texas music scene that makes me wish I was a bit older so I could have seen it happen. Robert Earl Keen and Lucinda Williams are two more great Texas singer songwriters I like to cover.

The Old Quarter in Galveston as well as Dan Electro's Guitar Bar and The Last Concert Cafe in Houston are great places to hear live music in a small dive atmosphere. I miss Texas for this and many other reasons.

Wow mate, what wonderful stories sir!
And it's great to meet another fellow musician such as yourself. Hope we someday can get together, yack a bit, jam a little, share some stories, and knives!

Two common interests.

https://youtu.be/sUML2yWVn8c

[Stanwade]

No Place to Fall and Don't Take it Too Bad are two of my favorites.

When I lived in Houston area it was a short trip to Galveston and the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe that is owned by Wrecks Bell (Rex's Blues). Rex was a friend of Townes and played bass with him at times. Guy Clark, Townes VanZant, Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle were all part of a cool Texas music scene that makes me wish I was a bit older so I could have seen it happen. Robert Earl Keen and Lucinda Williams are two more great Texas singer songwriters I like to cover.

The Old Quarter in Galveston as well as Dan Electro's Guitar Bar and The Last Concert Cafe in Houston are great places to hear live music in a small dive atmosphere. I miss Texas for this and many other reasons.

Wow mate, what wonderful stories sir!
And it's great to meet another fellow musician such as yourself. Hope we someday can get together, yack a bit, jam a little, share some stories, and knives!

Two common interests.

https://youtu.be/sUML2yWVn8c

I'd love to see video of your covers... and good story..oh to be a fly on the wall where those guys frequented


Awesome post..I bought a good friend of mine the dvd of "Heartworn Highways" 5/6 years ago for Christmas...we watch it every winter while having a few good drinks (or 12)...

[WillyCamaro]

No Place to Fall and Don't Take it Too Bad are two of my favorites.

When I lived in Houston area it was a short trip to Galveston and the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe that is owned by Wrecks Bell (Rex's Blues). Rex was a friend of Townes and played bass with him at times. Guy Clark, Townes VanZant, Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle were all part of a cool Texas music scene that makes me wish I was a bit older so I could have seen it happen. Robert Earl Keen and Lucinda Williams are two more great Texas singer songwriters I like to cover.

The Old Quarter in Galveston as well as Dan Electro's Guitar Bar and The Last Concert Cafe in Houston are great places to hear live music in a small dive atmosphere. I miss Texas for this and many other reasons.

Wow mate, what wonderful stories sir!
And it's great to meet another fellow musician such as yourself. Hope we someday can get together, yack a bit, jam a little, share some stories, and knives!

Two common interests.

https://youtu.be/sUML2yWVn8c

[Stanwade]

https://youtu.be/WHE1dM4hYCw


Here's another awesome one from "Heartworn Highways"...

[WillyCamaro]

https://youtu.be/WHE1dM4hYCw


Here's another awesome one from "Heartworn Highways"...

[WillyCamaro]

[WillyCamaro]

[Madmarco]

Fabulous post Willy, thanks for the memories!

[Mumbleypeg]

Hard to pick a favorite Townes song, but this one is in the running.

Ken

[Mumbleypeg]

Another songwriting genius, unknown to most. This one of his has been covered by many artists, probably the best known version was done by Merle Haggard.

Ken

[Mumbleypeg]

Folk singer songwriter, and great story teller

Ken

[Mumbleypeg]

Townes was a great talent and he wrote some awesome lyrics. I cover a couple of his songs and peope always ask who wrote them. More people should know. Always loved his cover of Dead Flowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lge0ZnSEI

Which ones do you cover?

No Place to Fall and Don't Take it Too Bad are two of my favorites.

When I lived in Houston area it was a short trip to Galveston and the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe that is owned by Wrecks Bell (Rex's Blues). Rex was a friend of Townes and played bass with him at times. Guy Clark, Townes VanZant, Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle were all part of a cool Texas music scene that makes me wish I was a bit older so I could have seen it happen. Robert Earl Keen and Lucinda Williams are two more great Texas singer songwriters I like to cover. Lucky to have seen them both a few times.

The Old Quarter in Galveston as well as Dan Electro's Guitar Bar and The Last Concert Cafe in Houston are great places to hear live music in a small dive atmosphere. I miss Texas for this and many other reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9CDumFYngw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0_AVhv ... rt_radio=1

Wayne you’ve mentioned several of my favorites. Living Texas I’ve had the pleasure of hearing them all and seeing some of them perform too. I guess I am a bit older, saw most of it develop starting back when Willie Nelson and Family were the house band at a place in Dallas in the early 1970s.

Not his most popular (a little too long for radio) but here’s my favorite Robert Earl Keen song.

[Stanwade]

Great posts, Ken!!

[Mumbleypeg]

Thanks Ryan. Here’s another of my favorites. First saw him in the summer of 1969, in Red River, NM. Been a fan ever since. He started as a folkie, then Outlaw Country (he wrote the “Outlaw Country anthem” Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother), then a rocker, blues, etc. but he’s always been a folk singer/songwriter at heart.

Ken

[Mumbleypeg]

Ken

[Mumbleypeg]

[Mumbleypeg]

Townes Van Zandt said of his friend Blaze Foley “Blaze only went crazy once. He decided to stay.”

Ken