Desperados Waiting for a Train

I was looking for Jimmy Dale Gilmore doing I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, a just killer version of a classic song, maybe the best, when I kicked this one up out of the dirt. Guy Clark singing a song about his Grandma's boyfriend Jack, then passing it along to some of the best songwriters of what is called Americana, or Alt Country or just damned great music. All these old people singing? I remember when we were all young. God, I love this song.

Guy Clark

Nancy Griffith

Jimmy Dale Gilmore

Rodney Crowell

Eric Taylor

Steve Earle

Jerry Jeff Walker (where's he been for the last 20 years?)

and I think I see Butch Hancock in the dark playing keyboards.

Kids, if you're from Texas (or anywhere else) it just doesn't get better than this.