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Look at my LJ interests. Pick one that you find confusing or intriguing, and comment here. I’ll explain what it means and what makes it significant to me.

Then, if you want, please post this in your own LJ, if you’d be so kind, so that I can learn about your interests, too.

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Also, my granny used it to make the best stovies in the world ever,and I wish I'd concentrated more when watching her.

Townes van Zandt?? Who?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

There was a whole slew of singer-songwriters out of Texas in the eary Seventies - Guy Clark and Townes were two of them. I came to Townes through Steve Earle, who went to Austin when he was 14 to play in coffee houses, and ended up learning at Townes' feet. As he said, a great teacher but a hell of role model. His "Live From The Old Quarter" is my favourite live album of all time, and his songs are mostly sad, mostly quiet, and just beautiful. Kind of like Nick Drake without the fey element, like someone who, as the Guardian said a few years back, wasn't just friends with the devil, but was on first name terms with him, rolled up to his poker parties, got drunk and slept on his sofa. He died before his time, drink and drugs mostly, and has had more CDs released since his death than before it.

Steve Earle wrote a lovely song about him, "The Fort Worth Blues", which he segues with Townes' "Rex's Blues" on his own live album, "Just An American Boy".

As Steve says at the end of the song, "See you when I get there, maestro."