This guy is one of the most soulful country singers that has ever graced my weather-worn ears. He is the rough in a field of overpolished country diamonds and hopefully he will play your heart-strings the same way he played mine. Townes Van Zandt lived a far-from-typical life (he is dead now) and his life is evident in his music; he sold his soul to music in the grand old mythological way, sacrificing any normality he might have known in the process (you learn more in a truly great documentary about him, "Be Here To Love Me). This song is the title-track of the album, "Flyin' Shoes" and I chose it as an introduction because it is by far the most commercially produced of all his albums, and therefore a great stepping stone into the rest of his career. Ten-gallons off to the late, great Townes Van Zandt.
