Texas Tunesmith Heir Hayes Carll Bears Torch For New Generation

Brody Vercher | May 7th, 2008 Email Share

  1. Hayes Carll is one of the best in a long time from down here. Plus…! He can outdrink Townes Van Zandt and anyone else from these parts. Trust me, I am from Fort Worth and know these things….

  2. Chris N.
    May 7, 2008 at 10:24 am Permalink

    Is Townes really up for drinking contests at this point?

  3. Kelly
    May 7, 2008 at 11:14 am Permalink

    Wasnt it his penchant for drinking contests that sent him to his corrent locale, wherever that may be? Hey, he was a drunk and not a very good dad or husband, but he sure could write a song!!

  4. Brady Vercher
    May 7, 2008 at 11:24 am Permalink

    From what I’ve heard, the drunker Townes was, the better the show he put on.

    Kelly, Townes’ wife dropped by and filled us in on the details of his death.

  5. Kelly
    May 7, 2008 at 11:48 am Permalink

    Fair enough. No need to berate the dead, I was just making a dark, perhaps inappropriate joke…I’m still with Chris, I doubt he is up for much of a contest right now…..

  6. Brady Vercher
    May 7, 2008 at 12:15 pm Permalink

    I thought you were asking an honest question, but yeah, Townes won’t provide much drinkin’ competition these days.

  7. Kelly
    May 7, 2008 at 12:18 pm Permalink

    I kinda was, but i thought it may have come across a different way…all of a sudden I guess I care what other people think of what i say….ok, i’m over it…

  8. Katie
    May 7, 2008 at 3:44 pm Permalink

    I just saw an interview with Jennifer Hanson discussing ‘73 and I thought the story behind it was so cool — particularly when she concluded that, though her parents’ divorce was sad, without it she wouldn’t have her half brother, or more broadly, the life that made her what she is today. Then she played the song, and I was a little disappointed, because I didn’t feel like it really makes that point at all.

    I’ve always been a JH fan, though. I can’t figure out why she’s not more commercially successful.

  9. Jordan Stacey
    May 7, 2008 at 5:03 pm Permalink

    Same here I never understood why she isn’t more successful. It’s a shame that 73 isn’t climbing the charts at all, it’s run seems to have already ended

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