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\u201cAnd Guy is the best self-editor I\u2019ve ever come across. And by that I mean Guy would elbow out lines that other songwriters would give their arm to come up with. And I said, \u2018Guy, why\u2019d you throw that away?\u2019 He said, \u2018Because it doesn\u2019t fit the narrative.\u2019 I learned a lot about that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut at the same time, I witnessed Townes tapping into \u2026 wherever inspiration comes from. Townes was mystical in that way, and Guy was more practical.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crowell said both rubbed off on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are times I have awakened and written a song nearly in full form, recorded it on a little recorder beside the bed and gone back to sleep and woke up and found it \u2013 that has happened,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd at the same time, I\u2019ve spent 30 years trying to finish a song.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s been the case with one of his biggest songs, \u201cShame on the Moon,\u201d released in 1981.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still working on it; honestly, I am,\u201d he said. \u201cSomeday I\u2019m gonna solve that last verse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAirline Highway\u201d is a note to the state of Louisiana, Crowell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsidering that I\u2019ve written \u2018Stars on the Water,\u2019 \u2018Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight,\u2019 \u2018Fever on the Bayou,\u2019 I\u2019ve put Louisiana on the map, and they owe me some love,\u201d he laughed. \u201cSo now I\u2019ve gone down and made a whole album there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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