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Rex’s Blues from Townes Van Zandt’s Live at the Old Quarter double album.  Recorded in July 1973 at the Old Quarter when it was located in downtown Houston at the corner of Congress and Austin.

The song is written for Rex “Wrecks” Bell, Townes’ friend, frequent sideman on bass, and owner of the the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe, then in Houston and now in Galveston.