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John Townes Van Zandt [1] (March 7, 1944 ... Charley Crockett, Tyler Childers Lost Dog Street Band and Marissa Nadler. ... Songs of Townes Van Zandt. A single with ...
The song "Dollar Bill Blues" contains one of the most violent lines Van Zandt ever wrote – "Mother was a golden girl, slit her throat just to get her pearls" – and is one of just a handful of new songs the singer brought to the sessions; the album is composed predominantly of re-recordings of songs initially attempted during the 7 Come 11 sessions.
According to John Kruth's book To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, Eggers first heard Van Zandt's song "Tecumseh Valley" when producer Jack Clement played a demo of it recorded at a Houston recording studio in 1966, with Eggers marveling, "I thought it was an absolute classic song. When I heard it I said, 'This is ...
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 ...
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 ...
The fifteen songs range from traditional compositions to songs written by Van Zandt's peers and musical heroes. Foremost of these heroes is Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins, whose songs had been part of Van Zandt's repertoire from the very beginning. "I played with him. Visited his house a couple of times," Van Zandt told Patrick Brennan in 1995.
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 ...
In October 2015, Din of Ecstasy digitally re-released Jinder's entire back catalogue in deluxe-edition format. All records were digitally remastered and feature over fifty previously unheard bonus tracks. The biggest scoop of the reissues campaign was the release of the "lost" album Brother Flower: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt. [13]