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"If I Needed You" is a song written by Townes Van Zandt and performed on his 1972 album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. It was covered 9 years later by American country music artists Emmylou Harris and Don Williams as a duet, and was released in September 1981 as the first single from Harris' album Cimarron.
In the film Country Strong, the Austin Statesman describes the character of Beau Hutton as "the next Townes Van Zandt". [citation needed] The 2012 documentary film Low & Clear, which revolves around Van Zandt's son JT fly fishing for steelhead in British Columbia with his old fishing buddy Xenie, features Van Zandt's songs. [83]
The album includes what is Van Zandt's signature tune, [citation needed] the enigmatic "Pancho and Lefty", which Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard took to number one on the country charts in 1983. Although "Pancho and Lefty" is the song most associated with Van Zandt, "If I Needed You" is his most covered composition.
According to the 2007 biography To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, the song "The Catfish Song" was written while Van Zandt sat by the Harpeth River, where the Battle of Franklin took place, when the singer lived in a cabin in Franklin, Tennessee in the late 1970s. The book also reveals that Van Zandt wrote the ...
John Lomax III stated that he was present when David Allen Coe heard the song If I Needed You by Townes Van Zandt and asked to use it. Van Zandt gave permission as long as he was credited as a writer, but instead Coe copied the subject matter and melody for "Would You Lay With Me" and did not credit Townes Van Zandt. [2]
The release of Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas in 1977 followed a period of relative inactivity for Van Zandt, whose last album, The Late Great Townes Van Zandt was released in 1972. Van Zandt had recorded a follow-up with the working title 7 Come 11 , but its release was held up due to a dispute between producer Jack Clement and Poppy ...
Pages in category "Songs written by Townes Van Zandt" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... If I Needed You; P. Pancho and Lefty; T.
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