A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt - A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt

A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt
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Artist: Townes Van Zandt
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Music Label: Dualtone Music Group
Soundtracks:
  1. Talking KKK Blues
  2. Rake
  3. Like A Summer's Thursday
  4. Second Lover's Song
  5. She Came And She Touched Me
  6. Lungs
  7. Tecumseh Valley
  8. A Joke
  9. Talking Thunderbird Wine Blues
  10. Ira Hayes

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Free Music Review: Lives up to the title...
Hit: 5 Stars

This CD may not contain Townes Van Zandt's best known material, but taken in the context of when this performance was recorded the song selection makes sense. Townes was 25 when this was recorded at Carnegie Hall and hadn't written many of his most famous songs yet, therefore other reviewer's complaints that he didn't play "Pancho and Lefty" can be dismissed as ludicrous. If Townes hadn't written the songs yet, he couldn't have included them in his set (!). The previously unreleased "Talking KKK Blues" is Townes at his spoken blues best. The sound on this CD is phenomenal and what is striking is the way he projected in a concert hall like Carnegie Hall. I guess this struck me because I'm so used to hearing his live recordings in tiny dives like the Old Quarter in Texas or McCabe's guitar shop in California. Townes' voice was in top form and his guitar skills were also top notch during this time period, and while his song selection for this gig was his more subdued material I don't find this to be negative. This recording was lost in the shuffle between record labels but now that its been released it serves as a valuable document of Townes' early years and his budding genius. Despite the fact that the songs here could be classified as rarities, I would go so far as to say that this would be a good introduction to Townes Van Zandt's music. His humor and personality shine throughout the performance and it is refreshing to hear him at the peak of his powers.

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