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that went on. He thought that I was like this queen there.” But problems were arising more regularly in close quarters on the road. “He had trouble because [touring with him] kept me in both sides of his life, as opposed to having me set apart in this other side. That was starting to scare him,” Fran says. “I was getting horrified, because that’s when he started smoking marijuana and stuff. And I just didn’t do that. I loved the music; I loved hearing him. But it was very different for me to see all these different kinds of people he was involved with. I was far from being a hippie. So, the whole hippie thing, knowing Guy and all that sort of thing.… What I started seeing was lots of waste going on, and that’s what I started seeing Townes doing to himself. “That is also when we met Mickey Newbury and Jack Clement, here in Houston. Mickey Newbury had been at the club and they met, then Mickey introduced him to Jack. So when they signed a record deal, boy, it looked like something really good was going to happen.”