A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt - Austin City Limits With Guy Clark, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson etc

Austin City Limits presents a celebration of the life and music of Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt with guy Clarke Emmylou Harris Willie Nelson Lyle Lovett Nanci Griffith Steve Earle Rodney Crowell Peter Rowan Jack Clement and John T Van Zant recorded live from Austin Texas it's Austin City Limits [Music] at Chevrolet we're committed to making dependable cars of long lasting trucks just like PBS has been committed a broadcasting Austin City Limits car reginal American music for over 25 years it's one reason Austin City Limits is proudly brought to you by Chevrolet [Music] wanna make your customers feel like one on a ginyan we can help with a jillion you can treat every customer like your most important customer all on the web what's your business worth brought to you in part by Texas tourism providing travel guides tourist information in our own brand of live music Texas it's more than you think it's like a whole other country additional funding provided by the Friends of Austin City Limits over 100 individuals families businesses and music fans from Central Texas helping to bring the best of original American music from the live music capital of the world through your home now our celebration of the songs of Townes Van Zandt here's another Texas legend guy Clark [Music] de zeven down they come like rain on a contra forget most remember some but don't turn none away everything is not enough nothing is too much to bear where you been is good and gone oh you keep physic it in there what a live just to fly both low to shake the dust off of your wings and the sleep out of your eyes [Music] we all got holes to fill em holes are all it's real and something fall on you like a storm sometimes you dig your own the choice is yours to make time is yours to take some sail upon the sea some toilet upon stone but to live mr. fly both blow to shake the dust off of your wings and asleep [Music] goodbye doll my friends it's time to go kin think of all the poetry and picking down the line I'll miss the system here the bottoms low and the treble is clear but it don't pay to think too much on the things you leave behind what a live mr. fly both low behind so shake dust off of your wings and the sleep out of your eye shake the dust off of your wings and the tears out of you the ride [Music] [Applause] so we're just going to take turns up here tell lies and stories and sing songs the town's fans and wrote Peter Rowan thank you guys thank you Nanci Griffith would you help me sing this one be on Mickey Raphael on that harp it's one of so many different kinds of songs that towns wrote and some one of my favorites called no lonesome tomb [Music] ain't gonna say no lonesome - oh babe I'm coming - I cannot believe I stayed so long away but a man must look around and you're the sweetest thing I've found your lost time rollers rolling home today will my daddy said to me the Sun is hard as you will see to find someone upon whom to rely and in the kitchen mama sneezed and he grinned big as you please say it unless you and a tear come to his I ain't gonna say no lorcin oh babe I'm coming see I cannot believe I stayed so long but a man must look around and you're the sweetest thing a fan you're lost our rollers roll in [Music] I did decide that very day that I would like to live that way and now I know I've just been wasting time it's with you that I should be and if you feel the same about me I'm headed home along the street is mine I ain't gonna say no long soon to you baby I'll come into you I cannot believe I stayed so long and you're the sweetest thing you're lost Tyrell there's rolling home today I ain't gonna say no Lawson - oh babe I'm coming soon I cannot believe I stayed so long away but a man must look around and you're the sweetest thing I've found your lost eye rollers rolling home today oh you're lost high rollers rolling [Music] we were working on a record at Steve Earle and I and he started writing this tune here four towns songs written in in Galway because I'd been I did a solo tour last winter and I left like about a week and a half after Townes died and you know I was pretty busy before I left and I played all these joints that that I I went a lot of countries I'd never been before and almost every place I've played towns have been through it seemed like I'm this this run that he had done just the November before and a lot of people gave me a lot of pictures and I got some it just seemed like I couldn't get away from him on that run and it ended up in Galway and I decided to hang out in Ireland for a while and most of this record that I've got out now and this this was the first thing I wrote you [Music] without neons burning bright pretty lights red and blue did shut down I'll how get down tonight see prayer to you only oh is it highway would you home we both know that ain't true [Music] it's just down the place a man can go he don't know where is traveling to Kyle riders always clean even [Music] Tennessee Springs green and cool never really was your kind of town but you went around the Fort Worth blues [Music] somewhere above the Great Divide with ass gasps wide McLeod's whew [Music] mantasy is way clear to life just hold on tight that's all you got to do they see Texas where there's always changing one thing change you bring something new used to really ain't that bad a town so you hang around afford worse [Music] it's a full moon over godwe Bay tonight silver light over green and blue every place I traveled to I find some kind of sign you've been through [Music] Amsterdam was always good for grieving London never fails to leave me blue [Music] in Paris never was my kind of tan so just walked around [Music] [Applause] this is a this is one of my very favorite Townes Van Zandt songs and you know I usually I usually got a different one at any given time but this one's been pretty consistent in the top five for years Nancy Griffin sing it alright thank you Steve got my my bandleader of the past 12 years mr. James took her up there to sing to do everything okay mr. amazing rhythm aces well my first heard this song when I was about 14 or 15 years old and my dad had taken me down to hear Townes Van Zandt play and on the way to the show my father told me in the car now I want you to pay attention tonight because the gentleman that you're going to hear is the greatest folk songwriter that Texas ever gave birth to and that's only because Woody Guthrie was actually born in Oklahoma [Applause] [Music] maybe she gay scare my daughter of a minor anyways Rafi it seemed to me the sunshine wall the side [Music] streams Benson Crossy oh it's into [Music] sky's the limit [Music] the chica look forward she was seeking flavors for diamond D in a plane you journal has to live [Music] tangey hard [Music] all too Tikhon severely a job she found and she saved enough get back wall [Music] leaves word her ball [Music] calm down Spencer so she turned her out on streets [Music] it was me [Music] he needs you and wish you down there wasn't no cry very well who's there [Music] it made you gay we'll all these feel kiraman she's a daughter [Music] and her ways are free it seems to me sunshine still walks visa [Music] thank you James beautiful don t you games in well I'm extremely proud to be here tonight thanks you guys this is uh definitely probably one of the most important days for the rest of our lives my family's in remembering and and getting over the loss of towns wow this is beautiful [Music] my days they are the highway kind they only come to leave but to leave in I don't mind it's a coming that I crave for the Sun upon the ground stand the throne with shadow watch it grow into a night fill a spinning sky [Music] time among the pine-trees felt like breath of air usually I just walked these streets tell myself to care sometimes I believe me sometimes I don't hear sometimes to shape I'm in just one let me go [Music] I don't know too much for true but my heart knows how to pound my legs know how to love someone my voice knows how to sound it's a shame that it's not enough it's a shame that it is a shame but follow the circle down and where would you be you but you're the only one I want but I've never heard your name so let's hope we meet someday but if we don't I saw the same cuz I'll meet the ones between us be thinking about you all the places I have seen and why you were not there [Music] cheerful little did you know it's a nice little ditty the definite dark side any great yeah ladies and gentlemen my new friend and my idol Willie Nelson well the first the first time I heard the song Pancho and Lefty we were doing a session and Merle Haggard and I out here on the hill and we've done a lot of good songs we really hadn't found the one that we thought was really the one we were looking forward to do the title song the album you know hemorrhoid got sleepy so Marilla went to bed and we kept looking for songs and my daughter Lana I played your copy of Pancho and Lefty in fact she went home and got it and brought it back and I listened to it I said no this is what me and we're all out of date so I went over to the condo who knocked on the door 4:00 in the morning woke up Merle and said let's go do this song he said what song I said Paul JR left he said Pancho and whoo and I'm dragging him out of bed and we go over there and he does it in his sleep but I thought he did pretty good so anyway that's the story on how we were lucky enough to find Pancho Atlantic I'm glad you did and tonight I get to be Merle [Music] with it on the road my friend he's gonna keep you free and clean bear you wear your skin like are your breath his heart as kerosene burnt your mama's only boy but her favorite one it seems she began to cry and when you said goodbye psyche into your dreams Pancho was a bandit boys sports was fast his polish to you war is gone outside his prints we're all game honest world to field honcho met his match you know deserts down in Mexico nobody heard his diet that's who [Music] all the federales say could I have anything we only let him slip away [Music] kindness I asked lefty he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to a dusted poncho bit down south indeed I've been left his mouth the day they lay poor poncho love lefty split for Ohio where he got the bread to go hard ain't nobody knows and all the federales said they could I had him in a day they only let him slip away at a kindness awesome [Music] oh it's still about your fellow lefties living in a cheap hotel the desert squad Cleveland's cool and so the story in dirt oh did you say a few he only did what he had to do and now he's cruel [Music] [Applause] [Music] anything let him slip away I require a simple [Music] so long I reckon the sizable [Music] there's so much I guess to say about towns I first saw him in New York City it was probably about 1968 I'd gone up there to be a folk singer so I met him and got to see him him play a show at Gerdes folk city and I really never seen anyone like that before I thought he was the ghost of Hank Williams with a with a twist you know and and I became a huge fan of his and followed just about everything that he did and I did record a couple of town songs at Pancho and Lefty and and then this next song that I've asked mr. Earle to do with me I do want to say also one thing I I got to know Townes more through my friendship with guy and his wife Susanna who's sitting down here at the front table one of my favorite towns lines was he said there were two kinds of music there was the blues and there was ippity doo-dah and even when he did a slightly upbeat happy song there was still the blues in it and I guess that's what I I loved about his songs because they always spoke the truth kick it off there [Music] if I need you would you come to me would you please my if you need I would swim c4 to meet you will the nightfall in the mine with lies [Music] and new sunrise if you [Music] if I needed you would you burn me would you come if you need me I would I would swim the seas only you think [Music] ladies with me now since I showed her how to lay her Lily hand in mine lube and lil agree she's a sight to see and a treasure for the poor to find if I needed you would you come to me would you come to me and ease my pain if you needed me I would come to you I'd swim the Seas for to ease your pain [Music] [Laughter] [Music] mr. Rodney Crowell thank you thank you I first met towns I think it's 1972 and guy had a Volkswagen minibus / truck double cab Volkswagen pickup yes and so I meant a towns had these white patent leather square-toed Beatle boots that he was so proud of and first thing he did is he took me to the cleaners pitching quarters after he got about $10 off I'm he says I got a new song and the story I got is that Susanna and towns towns was driving guys truck home and guy was asleep I think elsewise he would write this song but Susanna and towns wrote this song [Music] I'm in the houseboat in heaven to sail them beeping holy sea I am building the houseboat in him and it's welcome aboard you sweet sweet pea ah the bath she is made of solid silver and uh she is made of solid gold well she's not too much floatie but Jesus babe the head and two though [Music] so I'm bill to save Limpy bamboo Lizzy I [Music] and it's welcome aboard - sweet sweet pea [Music] [Music] so I know it's mine - whatever much like home so I'm headed to the solution in my Ruby study to hear some man in him to save me who is he I [Music] and it's welcome overdue sweet sweet [Music] [Music] [Applause] and that silly so I get to introduce you to Lyle Lovett when asked about the song in an interview town said the song should be screamed not some Steve Earle's gonna have [Music] it's called lungs [Music] launching in your lungs to my narcolepsy let my feeding better he breathes up the time it's passing breath I've taken breath I get brave the day as my boys stand mine ones who live in decision [Music] ha fingers walk doctors down - on midnight gather up the cold you family fool it's on moonlight if you stop to take it home your hands are turn to butter you better leave this dream won't try to find another salvation sad and cross yourself hold the devil will stand burned up on the Shelf kill the region cancer to see the river and its mouth take the waters prisoner fill the skies screams and crass bathing fiery answers [Music] how Jesus was known son levers on the concept strangers cried for interns and dirty of the doorstep and I for one in you for two ain't got the time for outside I keep your injured looks to you will tell the world we try [Music] one one of the most innovative and influential performers and producers in the history of country music music produced great artists from Louis Armstrong to Townes Van Zandt Jack cowboy Clinton thank you live good guy and Steve and Peter to help me on this this was always one of my favorite songs of Tanja's I produced his first album and this was on it like this was a title song for the sake of the song well I kind of over produced it a little bit I have been known to over produce a few things here we go [Music] oh I does she sing her sad songs to me I'm not the one to tenderly bring her soft sympathy I've just begun to see my way clear and it's plain I stop I will fall I can lay down a tear for a pain just a tear and that song but what does she want me to do she says that she knows that moment sir and I suppose is true then on she goes to say I don't care and she knows that I do or maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song and who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong [Music] she liked to think I was cruel but she knows that's alive or I would be no more than a two mile out her to crawl over me my sorrow is real even though I can't change my plan [Music] she could see how I feel and I know that she'd understand [Music] but it's only to herself that she's life she'd like to pretend there's something that she should defend with her bride but I won't stand stand here and be the friend from she must hide [Music] maybe she just has the same for the sake of the song and who do I think that I and to decide that she's wrong [Music] Newtown for about 35 years I guess and this is one of the first songs I think I ever heard him sing and and maybe the first song he ever wrote or at least one of them this is absolutely seamless if you're a writer this is what you won't be copying how would you take it too bad [Music] if you feeling I'm feeling if you feel an unloving if you feeling alone don't you take is too bad it ain't you to blame babe lot is something kind of came me out of all of this living that we got left to do [Music] oh and if you go searching for ammo for reason well you won't have the time [Applause] and it takes just for talking about the places you've been babe about the faces you've seen be on house off the time flies past your window at night and we just can't have that girl cuz it's a sad lonesome cold world and a man needs a warm and by his side and whisper sweet words his ears birthday dream roses and plaything and a sweetness of springtime and the sound of the rain [Music] well Steve Earl is going to lead us a little rousing closer yeah one of towns is strong suits you guys have been wonderful thanks for helping us do this [Music] we just stop we just want to uh we just want to leave you with one thought towns was known to take a drink once in a while and you know but if if he if he was around somebody who he thought was drinking too much this is what he had to say what was it oh well when he was talking to a friend that decided to had quit drinking and so the friend this mutual friend of ours I was trying to decide in front of towns whether to start drinking again or not pounds was trying to talk him out of drinking again and so he got a very serious look on his face and said well if nothing else you'll have cleaner heartaches [Laughter] [Music] I'm gonna listen [Music] you may check away Bello people they treat you if you make a claim bellow people there were treat you all the dead white bread [Music] well it's bad news from Houston have my friends well it's bad news from Houston have my friends of that why don't you steal away [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] if you see Carolina's tears [Music] if you see Carol to [Music] stealing [Music] thank you questions or comments visit us at PBS online at pbs.org gee thanks Jack Clemons I love it Rodney Crowell any new hair it's Willie Nelson Jake Tim Van Damme man it's a quick he steamed Erlang Peter lon maybe Raphael and interpret our where Lord I'm gonna ramble til I get back to where I came real Lord I'm gonna ramble til I get back to where I know white freight liner is gonna haul wait my going out on highway this engineer big trucks whine whine I'm going on a highway I said Kitty a big white freight liner won't you steal away my big white freight liner won't you steal away [Music] [Applause]

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Views: 647,773

Rating: 4.8827996 out of 5

Keywords: Emmylou Harris. Nanci Griffith. Guy Clark. Lyle Lovett.Jack Clement.Rodney Crowell., Steve Earl., Peter Rowan., Willie Nelson., John T Van Zandt.

Id: Oc32Z424DCc

Length: 55min 38sec (3338 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 27 2020