Live From Luck! Charley Crockett on "Face Of A Fighter"

Published: Aug. 18, 2022, 9:20 a.m.

b'This week, in the second installment of OBW\\u2019s special, Live from Luck! mini-season, hardcore honky-tonker Charley Crockett talks about Willie\\u2019s little-known 1961 recording of \\u201cFace of a Fighter.\\u201d It\\u2019s another old Pamper demo, a barroom weeper Willie never did get around to cutting for a proper album, but one that, in Charley\\u2019s opinion, is so strong that if just about any other country artist had come up with it, it\\u2019d be the best song they ever wrote. From there he\\u2019ll get into the Willie songs he listened to as a homeless busker playing subway platforms in New York City, and the night a Willie song almost\\u2014not quite, but almost\\u2014kept him from going to jail.'