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Townes Van Zandt

by Townes Van Zandt

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thenewspaper Tears me up every time. Always forget how this album doesn't feel as stripped down as it gets regarded. Favorite track: None But The Rain.
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Plece One of the best albums from one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up. Favorite track: Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel.
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Watching Nebula as always, townes reigns supreme as one of the most poignant singer-songwriters of all time Favorite track: Waiting Around To Die.
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𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔡-𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔢𝔱-𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔡 𝓑lues, booze 'n' balladry. One man and his complicit guitar. Palpable paeans, no venom wasted and a portion of the most achingly graceful stanzas ever committed to song. Ladies and gentlemen: the late, great, Townes Van Zandt. Favorite track: For The Sake Of The Song.
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Doug I listened to and enjoyed Townes Van Zandt and those who sung his songs later on, but I never really heard him until I listened to "I'll be here in the morning" Favorite track: I'll Be Here In The Morning.
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Townes Van Zandt's third recording is an early guitar-and-voice singer-songwriter classic laden with memorable originals. Start with "For the Sake of the Song," an oft-recorded classic here enlivened by tasteful percussion. Move on to a couple of Van Zandt's gritty, death's door laments--"Waiting Around to Die" (where the ex-con protagonist finds a friend in codeine) and a miner's sad tale, "Lungs." "Colorado Girl" is another in a career-long series of paeans to Colorado, where Van Zandt went to college. "I'll Be Here in the Morning" is a tender love song, while the Dylanesque "Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel" is almost playful. Like most Van Zandt albums, this one has the obligatory buried-but-beautiful small masterpiece, in this case the undeniably gorgeous "(Quicksilver Daydreams of) Maria." The closer is another oft-covered piece of scrimshawed tunesmithery, "None but the Rain." This 1969 effort is the first of several essential Van Zandt albums. --Robert Baird

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released May 15, 2007

Produced by Jim Malloy
Recorded and mastered at Bradley's Barn, Nashville, Tennessee
All selections composed by Townes Van Zandt
Designed by Milton Glaser, Push Pin Studios
Photographs by Sol Mednick
Public performance cleared through ASCAP

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John Townes Van Zandt, better known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs that are widely considered masterpieces of American folk music.

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