Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark – Old Friends
The Unvarnished Truth of the Open Road and the Bonds That Survive It A stark, beautiful testament to the enduring, complex and often messy love shared between souls who’ve seen…
The Unvarnished Truth of the Open Road and the Bonds That Survive It A stark, beautiful testament to the enduring, complex and often messy love shared between souls who’ve seen…
The Beautiful Art of Understatement in a Love That “Just Is” There are love songs that storm the barricades of the heart with grand, sweeping orchestras, and then there are…
The Sweet, Fleeting Hope of Trading the Wanderer’s Curse for a Quiet Harbor There are few songs in the vast, melancholy catalog of Townes Van Zandt that dare to hint…
A Haunting Self-Elegy on the Reckoning of a Dissolute Past It’s a strange thing, isn’t it, how a song can feel like holding a long-lost photograph, the edges softened by…
The Flash of Modernity: A Nickel Flat as a Dime A vivid, masterful snapshot of a forgotten moment in time—the arrival of the future in a small Texas town, seen…
An Acoustic Sanctuary: The Tender Warmth of Enduring Love A gorgeous, un-sentimental love ballad that portrays a partner’s devotion as a necessary, comforting refuge against life’s chilling uncertainties. There are…
The Alchemy of Memory and Longing: A Wistful Ode to a Vanished Past “That Old Time Feeling” is the quintessential Texas Troubadour ballad—a stark, poetic meditation on the passing of…
An Authentic, Culinary Ode to the True Soul and Spirit of Texas. Pull up a chair, friends, and pour a cold one. When we talk about the great Texas songwriters—the…
The Poignant Ballad of a Broken Man, His Bottle, and a Dallas Whore, Where Heaven is Just a Faded Memory. The music of Guy Clark has always felt less like…
The Texan Bard’s Ballad: Guy Clark’s “Rita Ballou” Moving from the collaborative tribute of Sheryl Crow and Emmylou Harris, we delve deeper into the roots of the singer-songwriter tradition with…