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The Thing About Heroes

From: Olin Murrell
Email: olin62@comcast.net
Remote Name: 68.53.130.145
Date: 01-Oct-2002
Time: 12:02 AM

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is that they seem to get fewer and fewer as the years add up.

Townes VanZandt was a dear friend, and I knew the Mickey had helped Townes along the way. Both those guys were musical heroes of mine... though I only got to meet Mickey once. Interviewed him at a Legends of Golf Tournament in Austin back in the '80s.

'Course, I'd been a fan of his for some time before that, and had long-since gotten over being impressed by celebrity.

Mickey impressed me... not so much as a celebrity, but as a person. He's one I dearly wish fate had graced me with a better knowing... but my life remains better for having heard the simple elegance of his music.

Maybe Townes met him at the gates with a new pair of flying shoes to tie on.

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