Austin City Limits Hall of Fame 2014 "Pancho and Lefty"

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9 жыл бұрын

Willie Nelson is joined by Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett for the Townes Van Zandt classic "Pancho & Lefty." The trio perform to celebrate Willie Nelson's induction into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame.
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@lindacole7393 Жыл бұрын

" The desert's quiet . . . and Cleveland's cold " probably the finest line ever written. Thank you Townes . . . thank you! : ))

@eftate Ай бұрын

"Out of kindness, I suppose..." What a trio. The lyrics are intriguing and the melody and harmonies are so very sweet...

@colerainfan1143 9 жыл бұрын

Willie said it right: one of the greatest songs ever written.

@mkallen56 7 жыл бұрын

yep. i heard it first in 1973 (or thereabouts) at the armadillo world headquarters played by balcones fault. magical days in austin.

@inlandonline 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Townes Van Zandt.

@elliottbrendan9788 3 жыл бұрын

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@terrancehugo6258 3 жыл бұрын

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@lindacole7393 Жыл бұрын

@justdynee THE

@SBlackmare 2 жыл бұрын

Willie’s perfect on this song. For years I thought he’d written it. Still the best at conveying it.

@millenniumbush 3 жыл бұрын

Each of these are one of my three favorite people Emmy Lou from Birmingham, I am from Mc Calla, Alabama, and I was the perfect age to marry her someday,, and I always thought I could, and of course I never would. j And I was a nobody, and I love her. Lyle Lovett, ugly from the front, what a man. So talented he can accompany anybody. I saw him at the McCallum in Palm Springs one night, wow, and he deservedly was chasing a 'Pretty Woman', and while he was 'ugly from the front', he caught her. And Willy Nelson, he does not know it but I was on his stage crew in South Lake Tahoe a couple times, 1981-1983( O was a room service cook in the hotel kitche, worked stage hands in the theater a few times, got to listen up close and personal during his shows, before we then busted our butts and packed them back up, his sister Bobby was always there, would not know me from Adam. Now here they all are, in front of my face in one song. Happy days are here again, on KZfaq. Thank you millenniumbush

@thatbanjogirl6232 9 жыл бұрын

everything about this whole performance is epic

@randyjohnson7734 7 жыл бұрын

I do like one guy with a guitar esp. cuz this strikes me as a simple story & a simple song...I was always really partial to Hoyt Axton on this song, but then I was exposed to that version first, when I was very young, 5 years old or so,..we were always big on Hoyt Axton, he played our county fair the same year he was in "Gremlins" I believe it was..that was really cool..my dad & uncle Jeff talked to him after & gave him the lyrics & maybe the basic chords or whatever that he used for a song Uncle Jeff wrote, about picking ferns, peeling cascara bark, & timber work here in the northwest, & how hard times were, I remember Hoyt just walking up & talking to em like just bumping into someone at the store & striking a conversation, he didn't put on any airs, whatsoever...(not saying Hoyt recorded it, cuz he didn't, but it was still awesome & a good memory, & story of how down to earth Hoyt Axton was),.

@rumwomenandguns 3 жыл бұрын

Townes Van vandt wrote this!!!

@joeverastegui8399 3 жыл бұрын

Townes wrote some great songs, other musicians delivered them well.

@roderickbalt8993 Жыл бұрын

He wasn't too shabby in delivering them himself neither ;).

@peteranthony51 Жыл бұрын

For a lovely version see Lyle and Marty Stuart....beautiful

@vincentmartinez7527 3 жыл бұрын

😎....2021..revisited

@lordemed1 Жыл бұрын

Great song. Willie nails it...again

@AlbertCoRecords 9 жыл бұрын

Great stuff.

@88HEATHENWOLF 4 жыл бұрын

"oh Lyles's on this one with us" it was at this point Willie realised smoking an ounce off in the dressing room beforehand may have been an error.

@jonkiparsky7369 2 жыл бұрын

Error? How you figure? :)

@kennethbiebighauser7984 6 ай бұрын

LOVEEEE Lyle heerrreeee...!!!

@mattrogers7521 6 жыл бұрын

Towens does best

@lindacole7393 Жыл бұрын

Just imagine some Flaco Jiminez accordian added to this!!!!! WOW!!!

@anelladambrosio2513 2 жыл бұрын

Questa canzone e bellissima! Stiamo assistendo ad una grande performance!😅😍😍🤩🤩😘😘🎶🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸💘♥️💔💯💯💯

@kennethbiebighauser7984 11 ай бұрын

Russ Kunkel on drums....☺️

@alicemiller4298 Жыл бұрын

Lools like Lyle's band--John Hagen on cello, Matt Rollins on piano, etc.--everyone wearing sots like Lyle.

@richardjacobs8996 5 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest songs...absolutely right. But give credit to TVZ; say his name. And then they destroy the song by changing the lyrics. The Federales did not let Pancho "slip away" in the first chorus - they let hime "hang around". They did let Lefty "slip away" in the second, after his part in Pancho's biting the dust, and then let Lefty "go so wrong" in the third. There's quite a story here...please tell it right!

@christinequinn5355 2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct. Even if my comment is 2 years too late.

@richardjacobs8996 2 жыл бұрын

@@christinequinn5355 Never too late...thanks!

@garrettmaurer5306 6 жыл бұрын

I've loved this song since I was a child, I'm sure these singers in their own right are ok singers, but not with song this was very bad.. emmylou tried too hard she wasn't singing it she was straight up shouting it and Lyle well idk he was trying to be epic.. Willie was spot on yea it was 30 years later his voice has aged but it's what we knew... not tryin to harp on anyone person but this wasn't Epic at all.. it was epically a let down those three voices didn't match up at all or once in this song

@petekeim1 8 жыл бұрын

does anyone know who the harmonica player is?, he is great

@bluesteel5688 7 жыл бұрын

pete keim.......you kidding?

@inlandonline 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Mickey Raphael. Larry Music-Man got it right. Back in the early '90s I so badly wanted his job! I was a good blues and country harp player, with experience on the tremolo harp that Mickey uses on this song (only other guys I had ever used it before was Utah Phillips and Jim Ringer). I also played some button accordion, maybe even before Mickey started. O, I so wanted to audition for Willie's band. Willie, though, is one loyal s.o.b. He'd never double cross a friend. And Mickey was Willie's friend.

@viviandarkbloom100 6 жыл бұрын

Written by a Fort Worth boy, by way of Austin.

@tflyer98 6 жыл бұрын

Epic singers / songwriters but really only Willie is good on this song. The other two miss the mark.

@Kursebi 5 жыл бұрын

Because Nelson sings his own version here. Emmylou Harris version is totally different.

@alicemiller4298 Жыл бұрын

And they had to change key for him and his nasal twang.

@richtfingers 4 жыл бұрын

I love Emmylou, Willie and Lyle and the song too, but put it all together here and I don’t think it works.

@88HEATHENWOLF 4 жыл бұрын

it's because Willie and Lyle are actually hitting the vocals just right in terms of timing, Emmylou is about a beat faster and she's fucking up the entire thing.

@ngzcaz 3 жыл бұрын

Have to agree... I expected better from all the talent that was on the stage.

@ngzcaz 3 жыл бұрын

@@88HEATHENWOLF The timing certainly wasn't on. Willie traditionally has his own timing, EmmyLou was a bit fast and Lyle was along for the ride. More importantly for me was the arrangement of the song and the inflections of the singers themselves. I've heard many versions of this and this was perhaps the least impressive for me.. I wonder what the performers themselves thought of it when they heard it played back ? Individually I enjoy all the singers, but in this case, not together.

@mariancolts 4 жыл бұрын

When ACL had real country music on not the CRAP they have on now!

@steveneisenstat2266 2 жыл бұрын

I agree with most of the posters. Great song but this performance doesn’t do it justice. Two other great performances in addition to willie and Merle is Emmy Lou,s rendition when she was much younger and Roseanne Cash at tribute for willie , both of which are on KZfaq

@lindacole7393 Жыл бұрын

Yup . . . Emmylou's version on "Luxury Liner" album ( 1976/7 ? ) is still the gold standard for Pancho & Lefty!! Can't be beat . . .or overplayed: ))

@mkallen56 7 жыл бұрын

emmy sounds thin and lyle is too melodious. willie, as usual, hits it just right.

@kennethbiebighauser7984 11 ай бұрын

Disagree my friend..if anything Willie sounds grating out of place !!!

@jeffkirpach4815 Жыл бұрын

Yep, they over did it. Shld kept it nice and bare bones....

@SecsSells 8 жыл бұрын

Great song.... overproduced for my taste...give me one voice and a guitar.

@jblala2190 8 жыл бұрын

+DAM FLA I love these 3, but I admit my favorite is just Townes with his guitar on Heartworn Highways.

@Jasondirt 5 жыл бұрын

Thery butchred that song. Just townes and a guitar is all you need. These voices don't really flow with it and there's too much going on Imo

@Kursebi 5 жыл бұрын

Cause this version is closer to Nelson/Haggard's country-disco version. Emmylou Harris version from Luxury Liner album is magnificent.

@bobbycox9541 Жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely correct. I adore Emmy Lou and Lyle but they should have practiced. Swing and a miss.

@peterwilliams6114 5 жыл бұрын

Despite the Stars on show that was a poor effort - Emmylou starts off ok but Lovett shouldn't have been on the stage , ruined it - I discovered a version of Pancho & Lefty yesterday by two guys named Tim Gregg and Jay Wickizer - look them up , the BEST version or your money back . It really is SUPERB . Townes Van Zandt was a Genius , not a bad song in him .