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American singer-songwriter

Townes Van Zandt
Van Zandt in Heartworn Highways (1975)
Groundwork information
Birth proper name	John Townes Van Zandt
Born	(1944-03-07)March 7, 1944 Fort Worth, Texas, U.Southward.
Died	January ane, 1997(1997-01-01) (aged 52) Smyrna, Tennessee, U.S.
Genres	Country, folk, blues
Occupation(southward)	Musician singer-songwriter
Instruments	Guitar vocals
Years agile	1965–1996
Labels	Poppy Love apple Saccharide Colina TVZ Fat Possum
Website	townesvanzandt.com

Musical artist

John Townes Van Zandt ^[i] (March 7, 1944 – Jan i, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter.^[ii] He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "For the Sake of the Song", "If I Needed Yous", "Tecumseh Valley", "Rex's Blues", and "To Alive Is to Fly", that are widely considered masterpieces of American songwriting. His musical style has ofttimes been described as melancholy and features rich, poetic lyrics. During his early on years, Van Zandt was respected for his guitar playing and fingerpicking ability.

In 1983, six years later on Emmylou Harris had beginning popularized it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered Van Zandt's song "Pancho and Lefty", reaching number ane on the Billboard state music chart.^[three] Much of Van Zandt's life was spent touring various dive bars,^[4] frequently living in cheap motel rooms and backwood cabins. For much of the 1970s, he lived in a simple shack without electricity or a telephone.

Van Zandt's influence has been cited past countless artists across multiple genres and his music has been recorded or performed by Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Merle Haggard, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Counting Crows, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Robert Earl Nifty Jr., Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Wade Bowen, Gillian Welch, Richard Buckner, Pat Dark-green, Colter Wall, Jason Isbell, Calvin Russell, Natalie Maines, Jason Molina, Kevin Morby, Stephen Duffy, Medico Watson, The Cowboy Junkies, and Frank Turner.

He suffered from a series of drug addictions and alcoholism, and was given a psychiatric diagnosis of bipolar disorder. When he was immature, the at present-discredited insulin shock therapy erased much of his long-term memory.^[5]

Van Zandt died on New Year's Day 1997 from cardiac arrythmia acquired past health bug stemming from years of substance abuse. A revival of interest in Van Zandt blossomed in the 2000s. During the decade, two books, a documentary film (Be Here to Love Me), and numerous magazine articles were written about him.

Biography [edit]

Early life [edit]

Born in Fort Worth, Texas into a wealthy family, Van Zandt was a great-neat-neat-grandson of Isaac Van Zandt (a prominent leader of the Democracy of Texas) and a swell-great-grand-nephew of Khleber Miller Van Zandt (a major in the Amalgamated army and one of the founders of Fort Worth).^[v]

Townes's parents were Harris Williams Van Zandt (1913–1966) and Dorothy Townes (1919–1983).^{[half-dozen] [7]} He had two siblings, Bill (1949–2009) and Donna (1941–2011). Harris was a corporate lawyer and his career required the family unit to move several times during the 1950s and 1960s.^[8] In 1952, the family transplanted from Fort Worth to Midland, Texas for six months earlier moving to Billings, Montana.^{[ commendation needed ]}

At Christmas in 1956, Townes's begetter gave him a guitar, which he practiced while wandering the countryside.^[nine] He later told an interviewer that "seeing Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Prove was the starting point for me becoming a guitar histrion... I but idea that Elvis had all the coin in the world, all the Cadillacs and all the girls, and all he did was play the guitar and sing. That made a big impression on me."^[1] In 1958, the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. Van Zandt remembered his time in Colorado fondly and often visited information technology as an developed. He after referred to Colorado in "My Proud Mountains", "Colorado Girl", and "Snowin' on Raton". Townes was a practiced student and active in squad sports.^[10] In grade school, he was found to take a high IQ, and his parents began training him to become a lawyer or senator.^[11] Fearing that his family would move again, he willingly decided to attend the Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota.^[12] He received a score of 1170 when he took the Sabbatum in Jan 1962.^[13] His family soon moved to Houston, Texas.

The University of Colorado at Boulder accepted Van Zandt every bit a student in 1962. In the spring of his 2nd year, his parents flew to Boulder to bring Townes back to Houston, apparently worried about his rampage drinking and episodes of low.^[11] They admitted him to the Academy of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was diagnosed with manic depression. He received three months of insulin shock therapy, which erased much of his long-term retentivity.^{[5] [eleven]} Subsequently, his mother said that her "biggest regret in life was that she had allowed that treatment to occur".^[14] In 1965, he was accustomed into the University of Houston's pre-law plan. Soon afterwards, he attempted to join the Air Strength, merely was rejected considering of a doctor's diagnosis that labelled him "an astute manic-depressive who has fabricated minimal adjustments to life".^[xi] He quit school effectually 1967, having been inspired past his vocalizer-songwriter heroes to pursue a career in playing music.^{[ citation needed ]}

Early musical career [edit]

In 1965, Van Zandt began playing regular shows at the Jester Lounge in Houston for $10 per nighttime.^[15] After the Jester closed, he began to regularly perform (and occasionally live) at Sand Mountain Java House.^[8] In these Houston clubs, he met fellow musicians Lightnin' Hopkins, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doc Watson. His repertoire consisted generally of covers of songs written by Hopkins, Bob Dylan, and others, too every bit original novelty songs like "Fraternity Blues."^[xvi] In 1966, Harris Van Zandt had encouraged his son to stop playing covers and write his own songs.^[17]

At i point around 1967, Van Zandt was roommates with 13th Flooring Elevators vocalizer Roky Erickson. Erickson insisted that he bring together the Elevators on bass, even though he was a guitarist who had never played bass before. He auditioned for Erickson'south bandmate Tommy Hall, merely Hall rejected him.^{[18] [xix] [twenty]}

In 1968, Van Zandt met songwriter Mickey Newbury in a Houston coffee store. Newbury persuaded Van Zandt to go to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was introduced by Newbury to the human being who became his longtime producer, "Cowboy" Jack Clement.

Van Zandt cited Lightnin' Hopkins, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams and such varied artists as Dingy Waters, The Rolling Stones, Blind Willie McTell, Tchaikovsky, and Jefferson Airplane as having had a major impact on his music.^[1]

1970s [edit]

The years between 1968 and 1973 proved to be his about prolific era.^[3] Van Zandt released half-dozen albums during the fourth dimension flow: For the Sake of the Song, Our Mother the Mountain, Townes Van Zandt, Delta Momma Dejection, High, Low and In Between, and The Late Corking Townes Van Zandt. Among the tracks written for these albums were "To Live Is to Wing", "Pancho and Lefty", and "If I Needed Y'all". These songs eventually raised Van Zandt to near-fable status in American and European songwriting circles.^[3]

In 1972, he recorded tracks for an album with a working title of Seven Come Eleven, which remained unreleased for many years due to a dispute betwixt his manager Kevin Eggers and producer Jack Clement. Eggers either could non or refused to pay for the studio sessions, and then Clement erased the primary tapes. All the same, before they were deleted, Eggers snuck into the studio and recorded rough mixes of the songs on to a cassette tape. Tracks from the aborted Seven Come Eleven debacle afterward surfaced on The Nashville Sessions.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1975, Van Zandt was featured prominently in the documentary film Heartworn Highways with Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Steve Immature, Adventure Rogers, Charlie Daniels and David Allan Coe. His segment of the movie was shot at his run-downwardly trailer habitation in Austin, Texas, where Van Zandt is shown drinking straight whiskey during the middle of the twenty-four hour period, shooting and playing with guns, and performing the songs "Waitin' Effectually to Die" and "Pancho and Lefty."^[21] His soon-to-be 2d wife Cindy and canis familiaris Geraldine (a large, "keenly intelligent" one-half-wolf, half-croaking) are featured in the film.^[22]

In 1977, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas was released. The anthology showcased Van Zandt solo at a 1973 concert earlier a pocket-sized audience, and less elaborately produced than many of his early on records.^[23] The album received positive reviews,^[24] and is considered past many to be among the best albums that the songwriter ever released.^{[24] [25] [26]}

In the mid-1970s, Van Zandt split from his longtime director, Kevin Eggers.^[three] He plant a new manager, John Lomax III (grandson of the famed folk music historian John Lomax), who set upwards a fan guild for Van Zandt.^[27] Though the club was only advertised through pocket-size ads in the dorsum of music magazines, Lomax immediately began to receive hundreds of impassioned letters from around the world written by people who felt touched past Van Zandt. Some of the letters described how his material often served as a crutch for those who were dealing with depression.^[27] In 1978, the singer fired Lomax and re-hired Eggers. He shortly signed with Eggers' new characterization, Tomato Records.^[3] The post-obit year, he recorded Flyin' Shoes; he did non release another album until 1987'due south At My Window. Despite critical acclamation, he remained a cult figure. He normally played small venues (often to crowds of fewer than 50 people) but began to motility towards playing larger venues (and even made a handful of television appearances) during the 1990s. For much of the 1970s, he lived a reclusive life outside of Nashville in a tin can-roofed, bare-boards shack with no heat, plumbing or telephone, occasionally appearing in boondocks to play shows.^[22]

1980s–1990s [edit]

Several of Van Zandt'southward compositions were recorded by other artists, such as Emmylou Harris who, with Don Williams, had a No. 3 land hit in 1981 with "If I Needed You," and Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, the pair taking "Pancho and Lefty" to No. 1 on the country charts in 1983. Van Zandt had a small cameo appearance in the video for the vocal. In his afterward years, he recorded less oft, his voice and singing way contradistinct in part because of his drug addiction and alcoholism. All the same, he connected writing songs, such every bit "Marie" and "The Pigsty".^{[ commendation needed ]}

According to Susanna Clark, Van Zandt turned down repeated invitations to write with Bob Dylan.^[28] Dylan was reportedly a "big fan" of Townes and claimed to take all of his records; Van Zandt admired Dylan'south songs, but didn't care for his celebrity.^[28] The two first met during a chance come across outside a costume shop in the South Congress district of Austin, on June 21, 1986.^[28] According to Johnny Guess, Dylan later arranged another meeting with the songwriter. The Drag in Austin was shut down due to Dylan being in town; Van Zandt drove his motorhome to the cordoned-off expanse, after which Dylan boarded the vehicle and requested to hear him play several songs.^[29] In May and June 1990, he opened for the Cowboy Junkies during a two-month-long tour of the United states and Canada, which exposed him to a younger generation of fans.^[1] As a result, he wrote the song "Cowboy Junkies Complaining" for the grouping, with a poesy about each corresponding fellow member of the ring.^[30]

Personal life [edit]

Relationships [edit]

Van Zandt married Fran Peterson on August 26, 1965; a son, John Townes "J.T." Van Zandt Two, was born to them on April 11, 1969, in Houston. The couple divorced on January 16, 1970.^[ane] He began dating Cindy Morgan in 1974 and they married in 1978. Townes and Cindy became estranged for much of the early on 1980s, and were divorced on February x, 1983, in Travis County, Texas. They had no children.^[one]

Van Zandt's third marriage was to Jeanene Munsell. They met on Dec 9, 1980, at a memorial for John Lennon. When the terminally-sick Dorothy Van Zandt learned that her son had impregnated Munsell, she told him, "You're going to do the correct thing and honor that baby."^[31] He divorced his estranged second wife and married Munsell on March fourteen, 1983. Their first child, William Vincent, was born x days subsequently. Some other kid, Katie Belle, was built-in Feb 14, 1992. Van Zandt and Munsell divorced on May 2, 1994. Even so, the two remained close until Townes' death, and Jeanene was an executrix of his estate.^[1]

Around the time of their April 1993 separation,^[32] Jeanene coaxed the musician into signing over the publishing rights of his back itemize and recording royalties to her and their children.^[33] Townes'southward only source of income subsequently making that change was money received from concert engagements,^[34] and even then, Townes frequently visited his ex-wife and gave her the money in his pockets.^[35] Post-obit their divorce in 1994, his only possessions were a 1989 GMC Truck with camper trounce, a 1984 Honda Shadow motorbike and a 1983 Starwind 22-foot boat named Dorothy. He too retained sole buying of his family inheritance of ownership in oil lease and mineral rights.^[36]

At the time of his death, he had begun a long-distance relationship with a woman named Claudia Winterer from Darmstadt, Germany.^[37] The two met in November 1995 during a concert of his in Hanau, Germany. Van Zandt told friends, he planned on marrying Winterer,^[38] just the two never became engaged.

Addiction [edit]

Van Zandt was addicted to heroin and alcohol throughout his developed life. At times, he became drunk on stage and forgot the lyrics to his songs. At one point, his heroin habit was so intense that he offered Kevin Eggers the publishing rights to all of the songs on each of his first four albums for $xx.^[39] At diverse points, his friends saw him shoot up non just heroin, but as well cocaine, vodka, besides as a mixture of rum and Coke.^[40] On at least one occasion, he shot up heroin in the presence of his son J.T., who was simply viii years erstwhile at the time.^[22]

As a event of Van Zandt's constant drinking, Harold Eggers, Kevin's blood brother, was hired as his tour manager and 24-60 minutes caretaker in 1976, a partnership that lasted for the remainder of the singer's life. Although the musician was years older than he was, Eggers later said that Van Zandt was his "first kid."^[39] His battles with addiction led him into rehab nearly a dozen times throughout the 1970s and 1980s.^[41] Medical records from his recovery centers indicate that he believed his drinking had get a problem around 1973, and that by 1982 he was drinking at least a pint of vodka daily.^[41] Doctors' notes reported: "He admits to hearing voices, mostly musical voices", and "Bear on is blunted and mood is pitiful. Judgment and insight is impaired."^[41] At various times he was prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft and the mood stabilizer lithium.^{[32] [42]} The longest and last menstruation of sobriety during his adult life was about a yr in 1989 and 1990.^[thirty]

Death [edit]

Townes Van Zandt at Kult, Niederstetten (1995)

Van Zandt continued writing and performing through the 1990s, though his output slowed noticeably. He had enjoyed some sobriety during the early 1990s, but actively abused booze during his final years. In 1994, he was admitted to the hospital to detox, when a doctor told Jeanene Van Zandt that trying to detox Townes again could potentially kill him.^[43] He grew increasingly frail during the mid-1990s, with friends noting that he seemed to have "withered."^[44]

In early 1996, he was contacted by Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, who informed Van Zandt that he was interested in recording and releasing an anthology for him on the band'southward Ecstatic Peace label, funded by Geffen.^[45] Van Zandt agreed, and sessions were scheduled to brainstorm in Memphis during late December of that twelvemonth. On Dec 19 or 20, Van Zandt fell down the concrete stairs outside his home, desperately injuring his hip.^{[43] [46]} Subsequently lying outside for an hour, he dragged himself inside and called his ex-wife Jeanene, who sent friends Royann and Jim Calvin to check on him. He told the couple that he had sustained the injury while getting out of bed, and refused medical treatment. They took him back to their home, and he spent Christmas calendar week on their burrow, unable to get upwards even to use the bathroom.^[46]

Determined to finish the anthology that he had scheduled to record with Shelley and Two Dollar Guitar, Van Zandt arrived at the Memphis studio beingness pushed in a wheelchair past route manager Harold Eggers. Shelley canceled the sessions due to the songwriter'south erratic behavior and drunkenness. Van Zandt finally agreed to hospitalization, but non before returning to Nashville. By the time he consented to receive medical care, 8 days had passed since the injury.^[43] On December 31, X-rays revealed that Van Zandt had an impacted left femoral cervix fracture in his hip, and several cosmetic surgeries were performed.^[47] Jeanene informed the surgeon that ane of Townes' previous rehab doctors had told her detoxing could kill him.^[43] The medical staff tried to explicate to her that detoxing a "late-term alcoholic" at home would be ill-advised, and he would have a better chance at recovering under hospital supervision.^[47] She did not heed the warnings, and checked Townes out of the hospital.^[48] Understanding that he would virtually likely drink immediately after leaving the hospital, the physicians refused to prescribe him any painkillers.^[49]

By the time Van Zandt was checked out of the hospital early the side by side morn, he had begun to show signs of delirium tremens.^[43] Jeanene rushed him to her automobile, where she gave him a flask of vodka to ward off the withdrawal delirium. She later reported that later on getting him back dwelling to Smyrna, Tennessee, and giving him alcohol, he became "lucid, in a real good mood, calling his friends on the phone."^[43] Jim Calvin shared a marijuana articulation with him,^[48] and he was also given about four Tylenol PM tablets.^[49]

While Jeanene was on the phone with Susanna Clark, their son Will noticed that Townes had stopped animate and "looked dead", and alerted his mother, who attempted to perform CPR, "screaming his proper name between breaths".^[43] Townes Van Zandt died in the early morning hours of January ane, 1997, at the historic period of 52. His official cause of death was "natural" cardiac arrhythmia.^[50]

Two services were held for Van Zandt: ane in Texas for family, and some other in a large Nashville church, attended by friends, acquaintances, and fans.^[eleven] Some of his ashes were placed underneath a headstone in the Van Zandt family plot at the Dido Cemetery in Dido, Texas, near Fort Worth.^{[xi] [51]}

Legacy [edit]

Legal bug over his work [edit]

In the years immediately post-obit Van Zandt'due south death, his former manager and characterization owner Kevin Eggers issued 14 albums of both new and previously unreleased material by the vocalizer, all without consent of his estate (represented by Jeanene Van Zandt and his iii children).^[52] Eggers claimed a 50% involvement in eighty of Van Zandt'due south songs. After well-nigh ten years of legal battles, the court sided with the estate, issuing "injunctive relief confronting Eggers, restraining him from reproducing or distributing whatever of Van Zandt's songs."^[52]

It was revealed through these proceedings that Van Zandt's annual income in the years before his expiry had climbed to over $100,000, thanks in big function to the royalties accrued from his songs existence covered by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Merle Haggard, Cowboy Junkies, and other major music stars.^[39] Subsequently Van Zandt's decease his route manager, Harold Eggers, released video and audio recordings from the songwriter'due south concerts.^[52] An out-of-courtroom settlement in 2006 granted the Van Zandts conditional control of Harold Eggers' mastered recordings with Eggers retaining a 50% ownership of seven albums and some royalties for the remaining recordings.^[52]

On October 21, 2008, a number of Van Zandt'due south personal possessions were auctioned off at The Northside in Akron, Ohio at a benefit for Rex "Wrecks" Bell. Bell was a close friend and bandmate, and the inspiration for the vocal "Rex's Blues". Bell was also part owner of the bar Former Quarter in Houston, where Van Zandt performed the songs that would comprise the album Live at the Old Quarter.

In music [edit]

Van Zandt has been referred to equally a cult musician and "a songwriter'southward songwriter."^{[53] [54]} Musician Steve Earle, who met him in 1978 and considered Van Zandt a mentor, once called Van Zandt "the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee tabular array in my cowboy boots and say that."^{[53] [55]} The quote was printed on a sticker featured on the packing of At My Window, much to Van Zandt's displeasure.^[56] In the years post-obit, the quote was ofttimes cited by the printing, much to Van Zandt and Earle'south embarrassment;^[57] in 2009, Earle told the New York Times "Did I ever believe that Townes was better than Bob Dylan? No."^[57] But he concluded at the terminate of the same article that, "As a songwriter, you won't observe anybody amend." Earle has championed the songwriter on a number of occasions: his eldest son, Justin Townes Earle, also a musician, was named afterward Van Zandt. Earle wrote the song "Fort Worth Blues" every bit a tribute to the vocaliser in the belatedly 1990s, and in 2009 released an anthology titled Townes, which featured all covers of Van Zandt songs.^[57]

His Texas-grounded touch on stretched farther than country. He has been cited as a source of inspiration by such notable artists as Bob Dylan,^[28] Neil Immature,^[58] Willie Nelson,^[59] Guthrie Thomas, John Prine,^[59] Lyle Lovett,^[60] Chelsea Wolfe,^[61] Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers,^[62] Emmylou Harris,^[59] Nanci Griffith,^[59] Cowboy Junkies,^[63] Vetiver,^[64] Guy Clark,^[59] Devendra Banhart,^[65] Norah Jones,^[66] Robert Establish & Alison Krauss,^[67] The Be Good Tanyas and Jolie Holland,^[68] Rowland South. Howard, Michael Weston King, Hayes Carll, Josh Ritter,^[69] Gillian Welch,^[70] Garth Brooks,^[71] Simon Joyner,^[72] Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes,^[73] Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon,^[74] Marissa Nadler,^[75] Laura Marling, and Frank Turner,^[76] Folk musician Shakey Graves has credited his fast-paced, rhythmic mode of finger picked guitar playing partially to Van Zandt'southward influence.^[77]

In 1994, Israeli singer David Broza performed with Van Zandt during a Writers in the Round concert in Houston. When Van Zandt died, he left a shoe box total of unreleased poems and lyrics with a request that Broza gear up them to music. The resulting album was Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt.^[78]

In 2012, Van Zandt was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[79]

In July 2012, Neurot Recordings released a three-manner split up anthology in tribute to Van Zandt, featuring Neurosis vocalizer/guitarists Scott Kelly, Steve Von Till and doom/stoner metal legend Scott "Wino" Weinrich.^[80] 2 years after some other similar album was released featuring John Baizley, Mike Scheidt and Nate Hall, frontmen of the bands Baroness, YOB and U.S. Christmas respectively.^[81]

On June eighteen, 2015, Van Zandt was inducted into the second year's ceremony of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, along with Comatose at the Bicycle, Loretta Lynn, Guy Clark and Flaco Jimenez.^[82] Gillian Welch inducted Van Zandt by telling stories well-nigh how he had come to her early gigs in Nashville and how he had bolstered her conviction in writing sad songs.^[83]

In moving-picture show and tv set [edit]

Van Zandt's Roadsongs album version of The Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers" was used during the last scene of the Coen Brothers' 1998 pic, The Big Lebowski. The song was included on the picture'southward soundtrack.^[84] Since his decease, Van Zandt'southward recordings take been licensed by his family unit for apply in a number of films and television programs, including Stepmom, Ozark, Six Anxiety Under, In Bruges, Calvary, Crazy Center, Leaves of Grass, Vii Psychopaths, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Truthful Detective, Euphoria (American TV Serial), and Hell or Loftier Water (Dollar Nib Dejection).^[85] His "Buckskin Stallion Blues" was featured in the 2017 American flick 3 Billboards Exterior Ebbing, Missouri both every bit his original recording and a cover past Amy Annelle.^[86]

In the film Country Strong, the Austin Statesman describes the graphic symbol of Beau Hutton as "the next Townes Van Zandt".^{[ commendation needed ]} The 2012 documentary film Low & Clear, which revolves around Van Zandt's son JT wing fishing for steelhead in British Columbia with his old line-fishing buddy Xenie, features Van Zandt's songs "Dollar Bill Blues" and "My Proud Mountains".^{[ citation needed ]}

Films and book [edit]

In 2004, the film Exist Here to Dear Me,^[87] chronicling the creative person's life and musical career, was released in the Usa. Information technology was very well received, earning a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[88] Georgia Christgau of the Village Phonation called the documentary "sympathetic but frank."^[89] Eddie Cockrell of Variety chosen the film "a dignified and wistful look at the unusual life, hard career and lasting influence" of Van Zandt.^[90]

A biography, titled To Alive's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth, was released in 2007. It received mixed reviews, with Publishers Weekly lamenting that Kruth'southward "efforts are diminished by oddly alternating first- and 3rd-person narratives, awkward transitions and text cluttered with excessive quotes... more insight into why – rather than endless tales of how – would accept made this bio a more than worthwhile read."^[91]

In April 2008, the Academy of North Texas Printing published Robert Earl Hardy's biography on the songwriter, titled A Deeper Bluish: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt, which took more than eight years of research, including interviews with Mickey Newbury, Jack Clement, Guy and Susanna Clark, Mickey White, Rex Bong, Dan Rowland, Richard Dobson, John Lomax 3, Van Zandt's brother and sister, cousins, his three ex-wives, and many others. The book has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a "poignant, clear and bright portrait."^[92]

I'll Exist Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt by Brian T. Atkinson was released on New Twelvemonth's Day 2012 past Texas A&K University Press, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Van Zandt'southward death. The volume contains interviews with longtime Van Zandt friends Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Russell and Peter Rowan as well equally younger disciples such as Scott Avett (the Avett Brothers), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Kasey Chambers, Josh Ritter, and Grace Potter.

Van Zandt was portrayed past Charlie Sexton in the 2018 moving picture Blaze, a biographical drama about the life of Bonfire Foley.

More books and movies about Townes Van Zandt were released, e.m. Harold Eggers' My Years with Townes Van Zandt and Mickey White's Some other Mickey. Ruminations of a Texas Guitar Slinger (books^[93]) or Without Getting Killed or Caught (movie,^[94] managing director: Tamara Saviano).

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

• For the Sake of the Song (1968)
• Our Female parent the Mount (1969)
• Townes Van Zandt (1969)
• Delta Momma Blues (1970)
• High, Low and In Between (1971)
• The Tardily Great Townes Van Zandt (1972)
• Flyin' Shoes (1978)
• At My Window (1987)
• The Nashville Sessions (1993)
• No Deeper Blue (1994)

Posthumous albums [edit]

• A Far Cry From Expressionless (1999)
• Texas Rain: The Texas Loma Country Recordings (2001)
• In the Beginning (2003)
• Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971–1972 (2013)
• Sky Blue (2019)^[95]
• Somebody Had to Write It (2020)

Singles [edit]

• "Waiting Around to Die" / "Talking Karate Blues" (1968)
• "2d Lovers Song" / "Tecumseh Valley" (1969)
• "Come Tomorrow" / "Delta Mama Blues" (1971)
• "Greensboro Adult female" / "Standin'" (1972)
• "If I Needed You" / "Sunshine Boy" (1972)
• "Honky Tonkin'" / "Snow Don't Fall" (1972)
• "Fraulein" / "Don't Let the Sunshine Fool Ya" (1972)
• "Pancho and Lefty" / "Heavenly Houseboat Dejection" (1972)
• "Pancho and Lefty" / "If I Needed You" (1973)
• "Who Do You Dearest" / "Dollar Neb Blues" (1978)
• "When She Don't Need Me" / "No Place to Fall" (1978)
• "Expressionless Flowers" / "Fraulein" / "Racing in the Street" (1993) – German CD single
• "Riding the Range" / "Dirty Old Town" (1996)
• "Ain't Leavin' Your Dearest" (1999) – US CD single
• "Snowin' on Raton" (2001) – U.s.a. CD single; from Texas Rain: The Texas Colina Land Recordings
• "Highway Kind" (2002) – CD unmarried

Live albums [edit]

• Alive at the Onetime Quarter, Houston, Texas (1977) – recorded July 1973
• Live and Obscure (1987) – recorded 1985
• Downwardly Home & Abroad (2018) – recorded 1985/1993
• Rain on a Conga Drum: Alive in Berlin (1991) – recorded October 1990
• Rear View Mirror (1993) – recorded in Oklahoma, 1978
• Roadsongs (1993) – all comprehend songs, recorded late 1970s & early 1980s
• Abnormal (1996) – reissued in 1998 with iii tracks replaced
• The Highway Kind (1997)
• Documentary (1997)
• Concluding Rights (1997) – alternate version of Documentary
• Together at the Bluebird Café (2001) – with Guy Clark and Steve Earle; recorded September 1995
• In Pain (1999) – recorded 1994/1996
• Live at McCabe's (2001) – recorded February 1995
• A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt (2002) – recorded November 1969
• Admittedly Zippo (2002) – recorded 1991–1996
• Acoustic Blue (2003) – recorded 1994/1996
• Alive at the Jester Lounge, Houston, Texas, 1966 (2004)
• Rear View Mirror, Book 2 (2004) – recorded 1977–80; album credits erroneously country 1976–79
• Live at Union Chapel, London, England (2005) – recorded Apr 1994
• Houston 1988: A Private Concert (2005)

Videos [edit]

• Heartworn Highways (1981)
• Be Here to Love Me (2004)
• Houston 1988: A Private Concert (2004)
• Townes Live in Amsterdam (2008) – recorded November two, 1991

Compilations [edit]

See likewise [edit]

• List of people with bipolar disorder

References [edit]

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• Eggers, Harold F. (2018). My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage. Backbeat. ISBN978-ane-61713-708-2.
• Lomax, John, Iii (1998). "Townes Van Zandt". In Kingsbury, Paul (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Country Music . New York: Oxford Academy Printing. p. 562. ISBN978-0-19-511671-7.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Townes Van Zandt at Curlie
• Townes Van Zandt at AllMusic
• Townes Van Zandt at IMDb
• Townes Van Zandt: The Cocky-Destructive Hobo Saint by John Kruth, originally appeared in Sing Out! V48#two
• Travels with Townes Van Zandt past Steve Hawley July 2003
• Townes Van Zandt at Notice a Grave

Awards
Preceded by Mickey Newbury	AMA presidents Laurels 2007	Succeeded by Jerry Garcia

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