My friend passed away last night or so... I saw him live many times well before I knew him, that guy and his band could put on a show. After he couldn't sing anymore (throat polyps, iirc), and we knew each other in the Hill Country inside of yards instead of outside of bars, I realized how brilliant and kind and straight up awesome the dude was. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...texas-singer-songwriter-dead-obit-1234821892/ I'm gonna post some songs, a bunch of them mean things, and yall'll just have to deal with it, or not. I was at this one, we had fun afterwards:
Yeah...this is the one that my buddy (brother from another mother) from Houston talks to me about Thank you for tolerating my bullsh!t
I didn't know Charlie Robison (or who he was), but I just saw John Spong writing about him on Twitter. He posted this Texas Monthly article about a road trip they took together. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/on-the-road-westbound-and-down/
This is one hell of a start to an article, and I can picture exactly where they were: If beer goggles are the standard justification for regrettable decisions made when the bars close, perhaps the culprit that late Tuesday night in August 1993 could be called beer GPS. Our “current location” was the Deep Eddy Cabaret, a bait shop turned friendly tavern in Austin.
I was just a fan going all the way back to Two Hoots and a Holler. Even as just a fan, I feel his loss. I can't imagine being both a fan and friend. He was way too young to be taken.
Jamming to some new music for me. I'm seriously digging New Year's Day (first song I listened to). R.I.P. Mr. Robison - you live on.
Glad you like some songs. I listened to NYD at 6am this morning, don't judge me His brother Bruce, married to Kelly Willis (they do a lot of shows together), is also a fantastic singer/songwriter