Anthology 1968-1979

Townes Van Zandt - Anthology 1968-1979

Anthology 1968-1979
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Artist: Townes Van Zandt
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-07-17
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Be Here To Love Me
  2. Kathleen
  3. Our Mother The Mountain
  4. St. John The Gambler
  5. Snake Mountain Blues
  6. For The Sake Of Song
  7. Waiting Around To Die
  8. Don't Take It Too Bad
  9. Colorado Girl
  10. I'll Be Here In The Morning
  11. None ButThe Rain
  12. Delta Momma Blues
  13. Turnstyled, Junkpiled
  14. Tower Song
  15. Come Tomorrow
  16. Brand New Companion
  17. Where I Lead Me
  18. Two Hands
  19. Standin'
  20. No Deal
Music CD 2
  1. To Live Is To Fly
  2. Mr. Gold And Mr. Mud
  3. High And Low And In-Between
  4. No Lonesome Tune
  5. Don't Let The Sunshine Fool Ya;
  6. Honky Tonkin'
  7. Fraulein
  8. Pancho And Lefty
  9. If I Needed You
  10. Heavenly Houseboat Blues
  11. Fraternity Blues (live)
  12. Tecumseh Valley (Blues)
  13. Lunge (live)
  14. Only Him Or Me (live)
  15. Loretta
  16. No Place To Fall
  17. Flyin' Shies
  18. Who Do You Love
  19. When She Don't Need Me
  20. Snake Song

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Free Music Review: The Blues and Zippedy-Doo-Dah
Hit: 5 Stars

Townes Van Zandt once said, "There are two kinds of music, the blues and zippedy-doo-dah." Townes stood firmly outside the zippedy-doo-dah camp and was a masterful painter of despair...the blues. When he died on the first day of Janurary, 1997, Townes didn't have much of anything, but a handful of adoring fans (Townies), who would have probably would have laid down life and limb for their cherished Townes Van Zandt albums. Such an ignoble passage for a man born into wealth, and even has a west Texas county named for his ancestors. Townes had no regrets, because he led the life he sang. "Anthology" captures that life of drinking, gambling, carousing, and tempting the devil himself.

Townes always seemed saddled with well-meaning indie record labels and their miniscule distribution networks. Before the rise of internet, you could spend the day searching for his albums and come up empty handed, even in major markets like Chicago or Boston. What I like about "Anthology" is it has an equitable distribution curve of all of his career highlights, even the harder to find stuff. This is a great sample of his early seventies work with Tomato Records before his plaintive, smokey baritone was ravaged by booze and hard living. I quibble with the fact that "Nothing" and "Rake", his two most sublimely dark and introspective songs, fell off the list in favor of lighter fare. There are two "essential" Van Zandt recordings for any serious collector of country or folk music collector. One is the live recording "Rear View Mirror", and the other is this solid anthology.

Gram Parsons often comes to mind when searching for a "musician's musician" of comparable stature to Townes. Both Parsons and Van Zandt were born about the same time, raised in priviliged circumstances, were notorious drinkers with dark erratic personalities, and were drawn to American roots music for inspiration. Gram's musical legacy has been brought to a broader audience by his devotees, and if there were any justice in the world, the same would happen to Townes. Townes would probably just sneer and say, "At least I got a darker hole in hell than him."

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