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A great piece from Houston, Texas writer John Nova Lomax on Wrecks, from around the time of Hurricane Ike, on Wrecks, his relationship with Townes, and the song.
From the article on the song Rex’s Blues:
“Townes wrote that song about me, and it could have been about anybody,” Bell said. “It could have been about Blaze Foley, it could have been ‘Blaze’s Blues,’ it could have been ‘Townes’s Blues,’ it could have been a lot of people’s blues. And I hated that song. Hated it.
“It’s really not flattering at all,” he continued. “But it’s so true. It really does depict Townes and I when we were doin’ our drugs and drinkin’ and all these dangerous things. He would always ask me to leave the stage when he would play it. I never did ask him why — I saw it as a good chance to go back to the green room and get a shot of vodka — but he never would let me play it with him.”
