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Thursday, May 28. 2009

Thursday free ad for Bob

Bob and Willie: Pancho and Lefty, at Nelson's 60th Birthday Party


 


 

Posted by Bird Dog in The Song and Dance Man at 06:51 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Lyrics by Texas songwriter Towns Van Zandt
#1 ron on 2009-05-28 10:32 (Reply)
Forgot to mention that.
#1.1 bd on 2009-05-28 10:52 (Reply)
Van Zandt is a local legend --a Hank Williams sort of guy, just covered up with talent and heart, who just couldn't handle this world, and drank and doped himself to an early, very early demise.

To now listen to the CD and hear him sing such bittersweet, heartful, 'longing for the better world' songs such as Pancho and Lefty is the best-known of, is really --if you just do it every few years or so --always kind of unexpectedly and extraordinarily emotional.
#2 buddy larsen on 2009-05-28 11:46 (Reply)
oh, my God, this is a heart break.

http://www.video4viet.com/watchvideo.html?id=NQhH8vWRp0I&title=Poncho+And+Lefty+-+Townes+Van+Zandt+-pancho
#3 buddy larsen on 2009-05-29 09:45 (Reply)
anyhoo, i was looking for the writer himself singing the song --and found it:

http://www.video4viet.com/watchvideo.html?id=YtzgwNDZAs4&title=Townes%20Van%20Zandt%20-%20Pancho%20%20Lefty%201993%20Tv%20Performance

There's also a nearby link there, of TVZ explaining the story in the ballad.

...and here's a wiki on a kind of sad short life of incandescence and i guess no other word for it but mental illness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt
#4 buddy larsen on 2009-05-29 10:10 (Reply)
http://www.video4viet.com/watchvideo.html?id=TMPydiR4NaQ&title=Emmylou%20Harris%20:%20Pancho%20%20Lefty%20(1977)

an impossibly young Emmylou Harris covering, at the Old Grey Whistle, in Amarillo, 1977.
#5 buddy larsen on 2009-05-29 10:33 (Reply)
buddy
thanks for the link
Towns Van Zandt with Mark O'Connor -doesn't get any better.
Emmylou has the voice of an angel.

Willie and Bob picked a good one.

Thanks for posting.
#6 ron on 2009-05-29 14:59 (Reply)
you bet, ron --she does have an angel's voice. That song and those people are remindful of the very heart of country music.
#6.1 buddy larsen on 2009-05-29 15:19 (Reply)

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