Badtux the Snarky Penguin

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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Drunken Angel

Lucinda Williams - Austin City Limits

Lucinda's tribute to Austin songwriter Blaze Foley, the "Duct Tape Messiah", an old drinking buddy of Townes van Zandt who was even crazier than Townes (and Townes was certified crazy, official diagnosis and all) who lived in dumpsters and passed out under pool tables and borrowed guitars to play gigs.

I'd post a link to my interpretation of Blaze's song "Cold Cold World", but I'm not sure of the legality of that so I won't.

- Badtux the Music Penguin

Posted by: BadTux / 12/17/2006 07:56:00 PM

Comments:

Damn...I want a drink of whiskey now. ;-)
# posted by Ole Blue The Heretic : 18/12/06 8:16 AM

Blaze's blues
by Townes Van Zandt

I gotta guitar all my own
I gotta quarter for the telephone
I ain't headed down this highway all alone
One two three and maybe four
Honey, they're knockin' on my door
I know you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

Got no daddy but I got a ma
think she lives in Arkansas
maybe I'll go see her some old day
It ain't like she'd really care
it ain't like she'd pay no fare
but I might just blow on through there anyway

Headed down to Alabam
cause some trouble if I can
Aw, buddy, would you like to come along?
It's a place I never been
and you know I could use a friend
they say they'll give us twenty bucks a song

I gotta guitar all my own
I gotta quarter for the telephone
I ain't headed down this highway all alone
One two three and maybe four
Honey, they're knockin' on my door
you know I'm gonna miss you when I'm gone

yeah, road kill can be murder on a picker.
# posted by The Minstrel Boy : 19/12/06 9:00 AM

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