He and Willie- dead drunk and at 0400 hrs. in the AM- did one take for my favorite duo they did- "Pancho and Lefty" written by the great Townes Van Zandt-- I also caught his "Big City Turn Me Loose---- playing on the jukebox in the Northern MN bar scene that opens the great movie "Fargo"--And he had good taste, drank George Dickel, rocks- a splash of branch water--RIP Merle- you were always the "Real Deal"!!!

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..