I saw Roy here at the Austin Aqua Festival just few months before he died.
He LOOKED absolutely ridiculous- he was fat and pushing 60, but was still dressing like a Fifties greaser. But I swear, his voice was at LEAST as good as it had ever been. He hit every note, and had me in tears a few times.
Oddly enough, though, I thought Linda Ronstadt’s cover of “Blue Bayou” was better than Roy’s, mainly because I didn’t like the arrangements on Roy’s single.