Townes Van Zandt - At My Window
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Artist: Townes Van ZandtEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-12-01
Music Label: Sugarhill
Soundtracks:
- Snowin' On Raton
- Blue Wind Blew
- At My Window
- For The Sake Of The Song
- Ain't Leavin' Your Love
- Buckskin Stallion Blues
- Little Sundance #2
- Still Lookin' For You
- Gone, Gone Blues
- The Catfish Song
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Free Music Review: Instantly Recognisable Classic Folk Sound With Something Different
Hit: 4 Stars
When I first heard this in the eighties I felt delight at the purity of the songwriting, mixed with some sense of something being oddly different about this album from the others of his that I owned. It wasn't simply the flute, as I'd heard that on Live And Obscure, but something else.
I had no idea at the time that it was the first of his two post-seventies studio albums made after a decade or so long break from recording either, although this of course now explains it.
It was on CD, not vinyl like the earlier records, and seemed to be more consciously written and produced. Townes said in an interview, that can be watched on the fascinating documentary Be Here To Love Me, that he only wrote a new song (in his later period) when he really felt he had something to say and he was never satisfied until he had perfected every single note and word of that song. Consequently he produced very little compared to what he did in his earlier days, which are generally acknowledged to be his greatest recordings, at least in terms of consistency.
And, ultimately, consistency seems to be the one really noticeable flaw. It is kind of consistent in that they all sound quite conservatively crafted, like a finely wrought Guy Clark album (not a terrible thing in itself) and yet only the first five or six songs really take off. One is a remake (For The Sake Of The Song), another has the exact same tune as a song released earlier (Buckskin Stallion Blues, which sounds just like Brother Flower off Flying Shoes) and two were recorded in earlier versions during the seventies (Buckskin Stallion Blues and At My Window). That leaves possibly only three songs worth getting. Out of these three tracks the best are Snowing On Raton (a true beauty) and Ain't Leaving Your Love (similar in sound to Where I Lead Me off Delta Momma Blues).
Compared to anything else made during the eighties though, this CD easily rates four out of five stars.
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The first and best album the late Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt made for Sugar Hill Records, this 1987 set mixes older material ("For the Sake of the Song") with fresh material (the instant classic "Buckskin Stallion Blues"). As is usually the case with Van Zandt albums, the originals shine. The funky "Ain't Leavin' Your Love" comes complete with an unlikely saxophone solo, while "Catfish Song" boasts the kind of gospel melody that marked this gentle, hard-living man as one of the finest songwriters to have ever worked in a country-folk vein. His voice--never the acquired taste of a Jimmie Dale Gilmore or Bob Dylan--had lost some of its certainty and range by this time. Fortunately, what's absent in reach is more than offset by a very appealing world-weary hue. This set features a raft of first-class supporting players, including bassist Roy Huskey Jr., fiddler Mark O'Connor, and guitarist Mickey White. Horn accents abound in the arrangements, and the whole session hangs together in a warm, rewarding way. Van Zandt's last studio album stands as his final bona fide classic. --Robert BairdCountry Music CDs
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