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Jul 9, 2008 · Legend: The Very Best Of Townes Van Zandt. Import. Townes Van Zandt Format: Audio CD. 4.7 279 ratings. See all 6 formats and editions.
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Dec 8, 2023 · From "Pancho & Lefty" to "If I Needed You" to "Sad Cinderella," here are our picks for the 15 greatest Townes Van Zandt songs of all time.
- “Waitin’ Around to Die”
- “No Deal”
- “Kathleen”
- “You Are Not Needed Now”
- “Snake Mountain Blues”
- “Nothin'”
- “Poncho & Lefty”
- “No Place to Fall”
- “For The Sake of The Song”
- “To Live Is to Fly”
The carefully finger picked, minor key lament “Waitin’ ‘Round To Die” is a typically efficient summation of Townes’ jet black worldview, replete with tales of romantic catastrophe, chemical excess, and perhaps most tellingly an unsparing recollection of domestic abuse more hurtfully candid then any this side of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. There ...
The jocular folk ramble of “No Deal” finds Townes at his most light hearted, enumerating his reluctance to follow the supposed good intentions of medical doctors, auto salesmen and a would-be teenaged lover. Cheerfully debased and filled with great punchlines, it is the sort of rollicking shaggy dog tale that reminds us of the acid wit that was the...
The tense emotional apocalypse that is “Kathleen” begins with the typically Townes-ian sentiment: “It’s plain to see the sun won’t shine today/ But I ain’t in the mood for sun anyway,” and circumstances only darken further from there. As the narrator wrestles with encroaching insanity, waves of pain and panic, and a seemingly malevolent natural wor...
Sounding for all the world like a lost outtake from The Band, the gospel-tinged, piano-driven “You Are Not Needed Now” belies its depressing title with a message of hope. “Lay down your head awhile, you are not needed now,” Townes beautifully and effortlessly soothes – it’s not your time to work, it’s not your time to suffer, it’s not your time to ...
Just when you thought that Mick Jagger couldn’t be any more transgressive with “Some Girls,” here comes Townes, almost ten years earlier with sentiments like “Love of a blackskin woman, she won’t do you no wrong/ Yellow headed woman brings nothing but pain.” But while Mick and the Stones’ problems seem to start and end with their women’s material a...
Nasty, brutish and short, the spare, finger-picked, cruel-to-be-cruel kiss off “Nothin'” is as immediate and powerful as a cannonball to the chest. What it lacks in charity it makes up for in its brevity, and it is devastating from its opening: “Hey mama, when you leave, Don’t leave a thing behind/ I don’t want nothin'” to its final sentiments “Sor...
Essentially the demolishing 3:40 antidote to every clichéd “I’m a cowboy/bad ass singer on the road” song ever written, this crushing tale of two outlaw friends driven apart through betrayal and deprivation is made all the more sad for the fecklessness with which the characters are portrayed. Over one of his loveliest ever melodies, Townes introduc...
The desperate lament “No Place To Fall” appears at first the libidinous appeal of a desperate man who is quick to admit that he “Ain’t much of a lover,” and is furthermore “here then I’m gone/ and I’m forever blue.” Or that is to say, not exactly a catch on Match.com. And yet as this gorgeous Neil Young-styled quasi waltz evolves, what is conveyed ...
The fetchingly lovely “For the Sake of The Song” originally appeared on Van Zandt’s debut album of the same name and was later recut for his self-titled third record. It is a thoughtful meditation on the nature of creativity, and perhaps a plea to the muse for a peace of mind that he would sadly never be afforded. “Why does she sing her sad songs f...
Van Zandt was known to his peers to possess a kind of effortless gift for songwriting — one which seemed to flow freely through him despite his persistent attentions to self-immolation. “To Live Is To Fly” is perhaps the greatest example of that effortlessness, a swift, breezy and beautifully bridgeless three minutes that floats by with seemingly i...
Oct 14, 2003 · Legend: The Very Best of Townes Van Zant by Townes Van Zandt released in 2003. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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