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Townes Van Zandt included a version of the song on his album of live covers Roadsongs; [5] this version was used in the film The Big Lebowski. Jerry Lee Lewis released a version of the song on his 2010 album, Mean Old Man, which featured Mick Jagger. [6]
I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt by Brian T. Atkinson was released on New Year's Day 2012 by Texas A&M University Press, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Van Zandt's death. The book contains interviews with longtime Van Zandt friends Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kris Kristofferson ...
Van Zandt had also been performing Peter La Farge’s "Ira Hayes" and the Rolling Stones classic "Dead Flowers" for many years. Van Zandt's affinity for traditional folk music is represented on Roadsongs as well, with the singer performing "Texas River Song", "Wabash Cannonball" and "Cocaine Blues".
Townes Van Zandt is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in September 1969 by Poppy Records. It includes re-recordings of four songs from his 1968 debut album, including the first song he ever wrote, "Waitin' Around to Die".
He influenced Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Jr., and a generation of blues musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose Grammy-nominated song "Rude Mood" was directly inspired by the Texan's song "Hopkins' Sky Hop". [4] [5] In his own lifetime, Hopkins was one of the initial inductees in 1980 to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
This year’s event is March 9-10 in the Southside Preservation Hall and Rose Chapel, 1519 Lipscomb St.. Drummer Jack Bullett Harris of Fort Worth knew Van Zandt when Harris was the drummer for ...
The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt would be the singer's last studio album for the ailing Poppy Records. It was produced by Jack Clement, with executive producer Kevin Eggers telling Van Zandt biographer John Kruth in 2007, "Jack produced the basic tracks to 'No Lonesome Tune' and 'Honky Tonkin'. I cut all the basic tracks to everything else and ...
The album was released January 19, 2010 to accompany the film. The 16-track album contains several songs written by T Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton, and Ryan Bingham, with some by John Goodwin, Bob Neuwirth, Sam Hopkins, Gary Nicholson, Townes Van Zandt, Sam Phillips, Greg Brown, Billy Joe Shaver, and Eddy Shaver.