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Full album stream of The Best of Townes Van Zandt by Townes Van ZandtListen/Purchase: https://townesvanzandt.ffm.to/thebestoftownesvanzandt.OYD00:00 For the ...
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23. Feb. 2019 · A list of the best songs by the influential singer-songwriter, who recorded nine albums from 1968 to 1997. The list includes classics like "To Live Is To Fly", "Pancho And Lefty" and "Tecumseh Valley".
- Jim Beviglia
- Contributor
- “Waitin’ Around to Die”
- “No Deal”
- “Kathleen”
- “You Are Not Needed Now”
- “Snake Mountain Blues”
- “Nothin'”
- “Poncho & Lefty”
- “No Place to Fall”
- “For The Sake of The Song”
- “To Live Is to Fly”
The carefully finger picked, minor key lament “Waitin’ ‘Round To Die” is a typically efficient summation of Townes’ jet black worldview, replete with tales of romantic catastrophe, chemical excess, and perhaps most tellingly an unsparing recollection of domestic abuse more hurtfully candid then any this side of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. There ...
The jocular folk ramble of “No Deal” finds Townes at his most light hearted, enumerating his reluctance to follow the supposed good intentions of medical doctors, auto salesmen and a would-be teenaged lover. Cheerfully debased and filled with great punchlines, it is the sort of rollicking shaggy dog tale that reminds us of the acid wit that was the...
The tense emotional apocalypse that is “Kathleen” begins with the typically Townes-ian sentiment: “It’s plain to see the sun won’t shine today/ But I ain’t in the mood for sun anyway,” and circumstances only darken further from there. As the narrator wrestles with encroaching insanity, waves of pain and panic, and a seemingly malevolent natural wor...
Sounding for all the world like a lost outtake from The Band, the gospel-tinged, piano-driven “You Are Not Needed Now” belies its depressing title with a message of hope. “Lay down your head awhile, you are not needed now,” Townes beautifully and effortlessly soothes – it’s not your time to work, it’s not your time to suffer, it’s not your time to ...
Just when you thought that Mick Jagger couldn’t be any more transgressive with “Some Girls,” here comes Townes, almost ten years earlier with sentiments like “Love of a blackskin woman, she won’t do you no wrong/ Yellow headed woman brings nothing but pain.” But while Mick and the Stones’ problems seem to start and end with their women’s material a...
Nasty, brutish and short, the spare, finger-picked, cruel-to-be-cruel kiss off “Nothin'” is as immediate and powerful as a cannonball to the chest. What it lacks in charity it makes up for in its brevity, and it is devastating from its opening: “Hey mama, when you leave, Don’t leave a thing behind/ I don’t want nothin'” to its final sentiments “Sor...
Essentially the demolishing 3:40 antidote to every clichéd “I’m a cowboy/bad ass singer on the road” song ever written, this crushing tale of two outlaw friends driven apart through betrayal and deprivation is made all the more sad for the fecklessness with which the characters are portrayed. Over one of his loveliest ever melodies, Townes introduc...
The desperate lament “No Place To Fall” appears at first the libidinous appeal of a desperate man who is quick to admit that he “Ain’t much of a lover,” and is furthermore “here then I’m gone/ and I’m forever blue.” Or that is to say, not exactly a catch on Match.com. And yet as this gorgeous Neil Young-styled quasi waltz evolves, what is conveyed ...
The fetchingly lovely “For the Sake of The Song” originally appeared on Van Zandt’s debut album of the same name and was later recut for his self-titled third record. It is a thoughtful meditation on the nature of creativity, and perhaps a plea to the muse for a peace of mind that he would sadly never be afforded. “Why does she sing her sad songs f...
Van Zandt was known to his peers to possess a kind of effortless gift for songwriting — one which seemed to flow freely through him despite his persistent attentions to self-immolation. “To Live Is To Fly” is perhaps the greatest example of that effortlessness, a swift, breezy and beautifully bridgeless three minutes that floats by with seemingly i...
Townes Van Zandt (* 7. März 1944 in Fort Worth, Texas; † 1. Januar 1997 in Smyrna, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Musiker und Singer-Songwriter. Er gilt als stilbildender Vorläufer des Alternative Country sowie der neueren Singer-Songwriter-Szene innerhalb der Country-Musik .
Like Bob Dylan, Van Zandt’s song are full of poetic imagery, literary allusions, and fictional folk heroes. But where Dylan channeled blues and gospel influences in his music, Van...
1. Jan. 2022 · 4. Lungs. Ungewöhnlich offen thematisiert Townes Van Zandt 1969 in Lungs seine manische Depression und Schizophrenie, die in den frühen Sechzigern bei ihm diagnostiziert wurden – ein Song, der es mit den besten von Bob Dylan aufnehmen kann. 5. For The Sake Of The Song. Jede*r Künstler*in weiß: Gebrochene Herzen schreiben die besten Songs.
Townes Van Zandt - Self Titled - Full Album Mix (Official Audio)Listen/Purchase: https://townesvanzandt.lnk.to/TVZID00:00 For the Sake of the Song05:22 Colum...
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