And someone else brought in Ray Wylie Hubbard. I have a special connection to him. We have met several times at his shows. My wife knew him when she was in an AA program.
He is humble and home-grown. His wife runs the merch table when they do a show. He wrote this song and Jerry Jeff Walker made a big hit covering it.
When we have seen him play (Poor David's Pub in Dallas, Hot Summer Nights in Sherman) this song, he sometimes introduces it or even stops in the middle to offer his sage advice. As a songwriter, the melody is not that important, the words are not that important. You don't have to be a great singer with a huge range (Geoff Tate covers 4 octaves when most people struggle to get 2 octaves, for example.) No, the most important thing to ask yourself as a singer-songwriter is:
"Can you sing this song for the next 50 years?"
This is performance from way back that I was lucky to find.