When Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson Both Called Houston Home
The Bayou City circa 1960 was vital to the incubation of our iconic author and musician, giving them both stories and songs to tell and sing for a lifetime
(I wrote this for the Press back in 2008.)
In his 1968 essay collection In a Narrow Grave, Larry McMurtry wrote that Houston was "a city with great wealth, some beauty, great energy, and all sorts of youthful confidence; but withal, a city that has not as yet had the imagination to match its money."
McMurtry as …
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