swappers:
Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty
a classic here but there are many more songs just as worthy of enquiry check him out
Townes Van Zandt lived and died a relative unknown; singers of a persuasion for Americana knew his songs, but his relatively aimless life was not suited to hit-making. In 1972 he recorded “Pancho and Lefty” for his third album. Five years later Emmylou Harris covered it on Luxury Liner. Six years after that Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard had a No. 1 country hit with it. I’m guessing that Townes made more from the song than any other. Townes died in 1997, a very old 52 from the affects of alcohol addiction. Two years later his widow found a set of tapes he had made in a neighbor’s garage, just guitar and voice. She took them to Nashville where additional instruments were added, tastefully complementing his world-weary voice (purists might disagree) but a unique writing style and delivery so dry it its desert sand, rattlesnakes and Bourbon Whisky - (thanks to psychoactivelectricity)
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