Another of Texas' most talented sons, Townes Van Zandt. Close your eyes and you can almost hear Hank Williams, but that's not slavish imitation. It's just two great artists drawing from the same well.
There's a tradition in country music of playing prison concerts. As well as providing doubtless welcome relief for the boys in stir, there was also a boost to the street cred of artists like Johnny Cash, who was never a convict himself. David Allan Coe was different. By the time his music career, which he credits with saving his life, took off at the age of 29, he'd already spent half his life in institutions. His is a real life story of redemption through his god given talents...
