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Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt - 50th Anniversary Edition (LP)

Label: Fat Possum

Format: LP

Genre: Folk

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50th Anniversary edition of Townes Van Zandt includes: 180 gram remastered vinyl, tip-on Jacket with obi strip, inner sleeve with autheticated lyrics.
Townes Van Zandt's third recording is an early guitar-and-voice singer-songwriter classic laden with memorable originals. Start with For the Sake of the Song, an oft-recorded classic here enlivened by tasteful percussion. Move on to a couple of Van Zandt's gritty, death's door laments - Waiting Around to Die (where the ex-con protagonist finds a friend in codeine) and a miner's sad tale, LungsColorado Girl is another in a career-long series of paeans to Colorado, where Van Zandt went to college. I'll Be Here in the Morning is a tender love song, while the Dylanesque Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel is almost playful.
Like most Van Zandt albums, this one has the obligatory buried-but-beautiful small masterpiece, in this case the undeniably gorgeous (Quicksilver Daydreams of) Maria. The closer is another oft-covered piece of scrimshawed tunesmithery, None But the Rain.
This 1969 effort is the first of several essential Van Zandt albums. - Robert Baird

Details
Cat. number: FP 1083-5LP
Year: 2020

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