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Townes Van Zandt albums featuring Toni Wine
Townes Van Zandt Music Videos (2)
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| | Flyin' Shoes CD (1978) Digipak
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After a five-year layoff, Van Zandt returned to the studio for one of his most solid, concise albums. Unlike the compressed singer-in-a-studio sound of his early recordings, FLYIN' SHOES features sympathetic, organic backing from greats like Chips Moman, Jimmy Day ...
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| Flyin' Shoes Vinyl LP (1978)
 $15.15
After a five-year layoff, Van Zandt returned to the studio for one of his most solid, concise albums. Unlike the compressed singer-in-a-studio sound of his early recordings, FLYIN' SHOES features sympathetic, organic backing from greats like Chips Moman, Jimmy Day ...
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 Townes Van Zandt Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Townes Van Zandt songs: Tecumseh Valley Lyrics, Rex's Blues Lyrics, If I Needed You Lyrics, No Place to Fall Lyrics, To Live Is to Fly Lyrics, Pancho & Lefty Lyrics, Tower Song Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Snake Mountain Blues Lyrics, Nothin' Lyrics, Dollar Bill Blues Lyrics, Our Mother the Mountain Lyrics, Marie Lyrics, St. John the Gambler Lyrics, Be Here to Love Me Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Quicksilver Daydreams of Maria Lyrics, Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel Lyrics, White Freightliner Blues Lyrics, Waitin' Round To Die Lyrics, At My Window Lyrics.
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Townes Van Zandt Biography
Ask any Texan who the best American singer-songwriter of the rock era is and odds are the answer won't be Bob Dylan but Townes Van Zandt, a Fort Worth native who brought to country music an unprecedented poetic depth and a lyrical grace to rival literary greats. Registering only cult sales during his career, Van Zandt mastered darkly haunted but earthy imagery (epitomized in the desolate anthem "Waitin' Round to Die" from his 1968 debut) and projected a palpable but riveting anguish in even his most gentle songs (such as "If I Needed You"). His commercial highlight came via a bestselling Willie Nelson-Merle Haggard duet of his outlaw narrative "Pancho & Lefty," but his untimely death--resulting from a protracted struggle with addiction--on New Year's Day 1997 robbed the world of one of its greatest troubadours.
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Contemporaries
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Leonard Cohen, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Richard Thompson, Gram Parsons, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Fred Neil, Jerry Jeff Walker, Robert Earl Keen, Jr., Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Tish Hinojosa, Chris Smither, Richard Buckner, Butch Hancock, Mickey Newbury, Steve Young, Tom Russell, Lee Clayton, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sam Baker, Jack Hardy, The Band of Heathens, Blaze Foley, Darden Smith, Paul Siebel
Followers
Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Simon Joyner, Richard Buckner, Jim Allen (Singer/Songwriter), Richard Julian, Two Dollar Guitar, Bob Hillman, Tim Easton, David Olney, Cowboy Junkies, Mike Johnson (Dinosaur Jr.), 5 Chinese Brothers, The Flatlanders, Jonell Mosser, Paul K.
Influences
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carter Family, Doc Watson, Tim Buckley, Tom Paxton, Fred Neil, Eric Andersen, Hoyt Axton, Peter La Farge
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