I heard someone talk about how women ripped their tops off at folk concerts for him which was unheard of in the day. He was gorgeous, funny, sweet, and soon to be destroyed.

Very well said!

Ron Boyar Townes really was a poet who happened to set his poetry to music. If just read his lyrics on paper without music it’s easy to spot this. Perhaps not with every song, but most of the time, the words don’t come across as song lyrics. They come across as poetry. He was as good at this as anyone I ever heard.

Is right. Stay safe mate.

❤️

matt zehentner me too!

I got into Guy a month before he died

One day I gotta go back to Texas, but I doubt if I'm gonna find her when I get there.

Too late, these guys are dead now

I'll be here

@@tripp8833 why do you say so

The clip of him in this video seems to be from Austin City Limits. I have seen bits of that performance here on youtube.

+dmurnizzle both were taken from austin city limits performances ... guy was singing at acl's tribute to townes in '98

It looks like 2 austin city limits

Me n you both (20)

Same 23

19 here brother. Happy living to you sir.

Townes wrote it

+onemanzguitar acl stated this seven months ago... We are working on releasing all of the Townes Van Zandt footage in our archives, should be available early next year I believe. not sure why you have a problem with seeing a duet that couldn't happen... guy's performance was at the ACL tribute to townes a little over a year after he had passed

+faithful827 That is great news. I have no interest in seeing such a duet. I wanted to see Townes doing this song, unmolested and intruded by other people doing inferior versions, to share with people on his birthday,

lots of jewels of townes all over youtube... it is always such a thrill to stumble on one i haven't seen before ... finding the performance in minnesota and the one in australia was a particular joy

+onemanzguitar This one was from a Townes tribute show on Austin City Limits. Notice the late Susanna Clark sitting in the front row. She was one of Townes' best friends and co-wrote Heavenly Houseboat with him.

so true! i put up the movie "be here to love you" for all to see, the beauty of townes and his hard travelling! the guys from palm pictures blocked it for copyright reasons!!!!???? so stupid !!!

All the people that knew Townes really well said that he had successfully given up heroin.He had been dried out from alcohol abuse about 12 times.Jeanene,his last wife had been told that it could kill him if he was dried out again.Unfortunately she took Townes home from hospital after his hip operation on his insistence,and against medical advice.He immediately had delirium tremens on the way home and was given a flask of vodka to stabilise the condition.A couple of days later he passed away,January 1st,1997,44 years to the day that Hank Williams died.