Billy is a cultural icon. He's so committed to his heroes, breathes them new life, with re-imagination, covers and his own originals with thems styles. Therefore, making him and them immortal. 💕
Nope, I totally agree with this. No one knows who Townes Van Zandt is. This dude is keeping him and a lot of other cool influences alive for another generation. Just cause you know don't mean everyone else does. Townes is still to this day criminally unknown.
Billy is a true bringer of music through his heart and talent bringing these songs to a new generation - i heard Emmylou Harris sing this when i was in my 20s back in the 70s a sad story relevant today i am afraid ❤
Thank You Billy for Tiping your Hat to A Incredible Artist Like ....TOWNZ Van Zandt , I Hope One Day , Yourself & Estas Tonne ...are on Tour Together .... 🌻 🙏 🌻 . Or cross paths , ...and PlaY Together . I'm so Happy that you have Respect for TOWNZ ,...Definitely check OUT,...." ESTAS TONNE " ,... BILLY 🙏 🌈. Both You guys have Such Incredible Gift's , Healing Hearts & SouL's Threw Song 🎵 🎶.
This dude is on an entirely different level, whoever is reading this please for the love of god tab this and do a tutorial on this. This shit deserves it.
Billy does the one thing that most Jerry/Deadheads don't realize that Jerry did. Forget the tye dyes, long solos, drugs, etc. Jerry learned songs. He knew 100s. Most Deadheads I know are still playing Me and My Uncle or Scarlet. But bluegrass (like jazz) is a style where you have to learn songs and melodies. Jerry started there and never looked back. Billy's got the same thing. Both dig deep and played killer B-cuts... like this one.
This Townes Van Zandt song was hardly considered a B side for anyone that cut it, as far could see , it's been a hit song for others, and should be a hit for Billy. I thoroughly agree with you on Billy, the caveat being that he finds great songs by great writers.
This is no B-cut, it’s an amazing CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Jerry and you are right about him, but you obviously haven’t been educated enough about music, start listening and learning before ever calling Pancho and Lefty a B-cut, it just shows your ignorance, sorry man, but my words are truth. Do you also think Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Willy Nelson or any of the many musicians who have covered Townes Van Zandt B musicians??? Themselves fighting words.
This is soooooooooo good and having said that you cant outdo country music GOATS Merle and Willie. I mean thats just not fair but really enjoyed this version.
The only reason they recorded P&L, is Willy and Merle needed one last song to finish their album, Willy’s daughter brought him a copy of Emmylou Harris (and Rodney Crowell) covering TMZ and Willy said “That’s the song!”, It was 3am but Willy woke Merle up and made him record it immediately and yes it went to #1!
This was beautiful. And made me have flashbacks of my love for Jackson Browne while I was growing up. So I'm off to see if he's put out any new music recently. Thank you.
Imho the way BMFS reinterprets the guitar part for flatpicking enhances Townes' original masterpiece. Billy probably doesn't have better vocals than Emmylou Harris or Jason Isbell (no offense intended, that's a tall order), but the melancholic beauty of his instrumental chord progressions is second-to-none amongst any version of Pancho and Lefty I've ever heard, and elevate it (for me) to the best version of this song in existence.
The Federales did NOT let Pancho “slip away” in verse 2, and Lefty in 4. If you care about TVZ get the lyrics right… not Willie (great case his rendition is…)
