Townes Van Zandt S/T Sealed Singer Songwriter Vinyl

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I'm going to start to thin out my collection and I will be listing several nice items in the coming weeks. I am not a professional dealer but I am an experienced collector with a huge collection built up over most of my adult life. My collection has examples of every genre from Jazz to Folk, Metal to Soul although I'm generally drawn to guitar music. Check back regularly or email me if there is anything that you are particularly looking for. I have 100% feedback and intend to keep it that way, please no time wasters as this is a spare time activity and there is precious little of that these days ! Polite succinct questions will receive polite succinct answers to the best of ability as my time permits. Enjoy the descriptions and perhaps be tempted to try something you may not have been persuaded to listen to before, any decent collector know thats this is the only way to establish your own list of personal favourites.

Townes Van Zandt Sealed Vinyl

John Townes Van Zandt[1] (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You," and "To Live's to Fly," are considered standards of the country genre. Van Zandt's music has been covered by such notable and varied musicians as Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Hoyt Axton, Tindersticks, Devendra Banhart, Norah Jones, Lyle Lovett, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, The Be Good Tanyas, Gillian Welch, and the Dixie Chicks.

Throughout his lifetime, Van Zandt never had a successful album or single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print. In 1983, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song "Pancho and Lefty", scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts. Despite achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various dive bars, and he often lived out of cheap motel rooms or on friends' couches. Van Zandt was notorious for his drug and alcohol addictions, as well as his tendancy to tell tall tales.

Van Zandt died on New Years Day 1997 from health issues stemming from years of substance abuse. The 2000s saw a resurgence of interest in Van Zandt. During the decade, two books, a documentary film and a number of magazine articles about the singer were created.

Among Van Zandt's major influences was Texas blues man Lightnin' Hopkins, whose songs were a constant part of his repertoire. He also cited early Bob Dylan and Hank Williams as having had a major impact on his music. Van Zandt also cited such various artists as Guy Clark, Muddy Waters, Mozart, The Rolling Stones, Blind Willie McTell, Tchaikovsky, Richard Dobson, and Jefferson Airplane as influences.

Van Zandt has been referred to as a cult musician and "a songwriter's songwriter". Friend of Van Zandt and musician Steve Earle once called him "the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."

Influential in the sub-genre referred to as outlaw country, his Texas-grounded impact stretched farther than country. He has been cited as a source of inspiration by such artists as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Nanci Griffith, Cowboy Junkies, Vetiver, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Caleb Followill of Kings Of Leon, and Meat Puppets. Steve Earle paid his own homage to Van Zandt by writing "Fort Worth Blues" as a memorial to the night of his death. Earle's eldest son, Justin Townes Earle, also a musician, is named after him.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' 2007 album Raising Sand includes a cover version of the Van Zandt song "Nothin'".

Although this is sealed copy of the album on Poppy, I suspect it is a later pressing. I bought several copies from a London record shop a number of years ago and I don't see any way that they would have acquired sealed 1971 originals although I have nothing to compare them to so I'm not certain. Its best to buy this assuming that it is a later pressing. I will try and post photos so that somebody more knowledgable that I can decide on pressing versions. Its a great album nevertheless and how many sealed copies are you going to have the chance to buy !

Track listing 1. For The Sake Of The Song
2. Columbine
3. Waitin' Around To Die
4. Don't Take It Too Bad
5. Colorado Girl
6. Lungs
7. I'll Be Here In The Morning
8. Fare Thee Well Miss Carousel
9. Quick Silver Day Dreams Of Maria
10. None But The Rain

Details

Producer: Jim Malloy Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes Recorded at Bradley's Barn, Nashville, Tennesee.Van Zandt followed 1969's landmark OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN a year later with this equally definitive album. The latter's big production is scaled down considerably here, and the focus is on a much more subdued, folky feel. The gentle acoustic fingerpicking doesn't obscure the sharply observed fatalism of "None But the Rain" or the ominous "Waiting Around to Die," one of Townes' best (and not coincidentally, darkest) compositions. There are some colorfully scripted Dylanesque epics in the mold of OUR MOTHER's "Why She's Acting This Way" ("For the Sake of the Song" and "Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel," the latter as close to Dylan's great "To Ramona" as anyone will ever get). "Lungs," covered almost 30 years later by Lyle Lovett, is an unforgettably desperate, poetic plea for connection and redemption, whose sheer bleakness would warrant a warning sticker were it not redeemed by the warm, reassuring country waltz "Don't Take It Too Bad."

On 12-Jan-09 at 01:01:28 GMT, seller added the following information: