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The Pozole Recipe

Townes Van Roy
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Townes Van Roy
Acoustic / Folk2:53April 28, 2026
0:00 2:53

Influenced by Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, Blaze Foley. Townes Van Roy was born between two worlds in Del Rio, Texas, to a Border Patrol agent father and a mother from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. He learned to speak Spanish in his grandmother’s kitchen near a specific panadería on Calle Hidalgo and learned about heartbreak when the border separated his own family. After dropping out of high school, he picked up his father’s old Yamaha nylon-string and started writing songs about the ghosts of the Rio Grande. He now lives in a small adobe house in the Terlingua ghost town, writing stark, third-person portraits of the drifters and lost souls he calls neighbors.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
"The pilot light on the furnace, you'll have to watch it."
"The one by the water heater? I know the kick."
"And the pozole recipe from your abuela…"
"Is on a gas bill from last October, I think."
"Second drawer down. You'll have to find it."
"I know the drawer. It sticks in the heat."

[Verse 2]
"And you?"
"I'll take the '78 F-150. It knows my hands."
"That old ghost? It's half rust. The radio's stuck on KXTN."
"Yeah. 'Just a ghost,' you said, 'for driving other ghosts around.'"

[Verse 3]
"The dog stays here. He won't understand a new town."
"He understands the back of your hand when you scratch his ears."
"He'll listen for my key in the lock around five-thirty."
"For a week," she said. "Maybe two, then the dust settles."

[Outro]
"The hominy… do you soak it overnight?"
"With a whole onion. And just a little lime."

About Townes Van Roy

Townes Van Roy was born between two worlds in Del Rio, Texas, to a Border Patrol agent father and a mother from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. He learned to speak Spanish in his grandmother’s kitchen near a specific panadería on Calle Hidalgo and learned about heartbreak when the border separated his own family. After dropping out of high school, he picked up his father’s old Yamaha nylon-string and…

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