A highly influential Texas singer-songwriter, Townes Van Zandt enrolled at the University of Colorado in 1962; in the spring of his sophomore year, his parents, who were living in Houston, flew to Boulder to bring him back home. The wild, tragic cult artist later wrote and recorded while splitting his time between Texas, Tennessee and the mountains around Crested Butte, referencing Colorado in the songs “My Proud Mountains” and “Colorado Girl.” He died in 1997.
Townes Van Zandt
