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08 Aug 04 - 02:33 AM (#1242287) Subject: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Matt_R That is all. |
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08 Aug 04 - 02:42 AM (#1242289) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Peace I agree. A giant talent and awesome performer. |
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08 Aug 04 - 04:01 AM (#1242344) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: burntstump I wish more folkies would listen to this great lost talent, a fantastic song writer sadly missed. |
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08 Aug 04 - 11:42 AM (#1242542) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: open mike I can't believe tha Tecumseh Valley is not in the digitrad. and didn't he write "IF I needed you"? in fact i think i heard that he woke up one morning and found that song by his bed and didn't even remember writing it...he " Channelled " it! look here for more |
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08 Aug 04 - 11:55 AM (#1242550) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Amos He also wrote, among others, Pancho and lefty, and Ain't Leaving Your Love, and yes he wrote if I Needed You and Many a Fair Lady. He is indeed a much lamented giant. A |
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08 Aug 04 - 12:27 PM (#1242570) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Scoville Thank you for noticing --Scoville (in Texas) |
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08 Aug 04 - 01:18 PM (#1242601) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Clinton Hammond I donno that there is any such beast as "THE" man... but TvZ was great... |
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08 Aug 04 - 01:20 PM (#1242603) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Clinton Hammond oops... But sure to lay hands to a copy of "Poet" the TvZ tribute CD... |
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08 Aug 04 - 03:35 PM (#1242673) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Mark Clark Yes, a great song writer. I never got to see or meet van Zandt but I was fortunate to get to play once in a while with a longtime friend of his, Neal Smelser. Sadly, Neal is also gone now. - Mark |
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09 Aug 04 - 12:35 AM (#1242946) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: DonMeixner I'll Be There In the Morning. Our Mother The Mountain Quicksilver Dreams of Maria Great stuff on every record . Don |
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09 Aug 04 - 12:48 AM (#1242959) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: katlaughing Agreed....such a personal sound, so much his own...no mistaking one of his songs for anyone else's, ever |
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09 Aug 04 - 02:35 PM (#1243397) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Cluin "White Freightliner Blues" is also a great joiner-inner. TVZ 4ever. |
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09 Aug 04 - 02:45 PM (#1243405) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Clinton Hammond I caught a docu. on late-night TV last night about some very sad ugly white guys called "Viny", about LP collectors... In the end credits, it was dedicated to the memory of TvZ and others... |
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09 Aug 04 - 07:41 PM (#1243610) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Lonesome EJ to live is to fly both low and high so shake the dust off of your wings and the tears out of your eyes |
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09 Aug 04 - 08:02 PM (#1243635) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: harpgirl I'll say, Matty. I listen to Townes at night to go to sleep. There is almost always a Townes CD in my player. I adore TVZ. He was soooooo talented. I saw him once in Tallahassee. |
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02 Nov 05 - 12:10 PM (#1595824) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: open mike There is a thread about Pancho and Lefty and it reminded me that i had posted the website for Townes in this thread. i will do so again. http://www.townesvanzandt.com/ |
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02 Nov 05 - 12:22 PM (#1595837) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Ebbie Buddy Tabor brought Townes to Juneau, Alaska for a concert about two years before TVZ died. Although Van Zandt was already on a downward spiral, I think, he put on a very good show. I love his songs- and when Buddy sings 'Snowing on Raton' we all love the harmonies on the chorus. It was a peculiar moment to me two winters ago when the train I was on went over Raton Pass. |
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02 Nov 05 - 12:27 PM (#1595842) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: number 6 TVZ is an artist certainly deserving the accolades here at the Mudcat. He passed on way too soon. sIx |
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02 Nov 05 - 12:28 PM (#1595844) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: BanjoRay A friend of mine organized a concert in Doncaster starring TvZ some years ago. Six people turned up. |
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02 Nov 05 - 01:10 PM (#1595862) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: Ebbie Bad publicity happens everywhere, BanjoRay. When a populace is not familiar with an artist's work, it is up to the publicist to educate them. Juneau has 30,000 people but there was a sellout crowd. |
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12 Jun 20 - 01:34 PM (#4058974) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: GUEST,Josh Medsker Ebbie, I am writing a poetry book about TVZ in Juneau (I'm from Alaska). If you see this message, would you email me? joshmedsker@gmail.com Thank you! |
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12 Jun 20 - 02:40 PM (#4058984) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: MandolinPaul I love his songs, and I love how he sings them solo. However, the person who writes the backup arrangements for his albums should be taken out back and shot. As my girlfriend likes to say to me, "Oh, you have an opinion about that too, eh?" |
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12 Jun 20 - 03:38 PM (#4058996) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: peteglasgow Steve Earle did an album of tvz songs and said 'Townes van Zandt is the greatest song writer ever and i'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table and say that!' |
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12 Jun 20 - 04:51 PM (#4059004) Subject: RE: Townes van Zandt is the MAN From: DonMeixner I like his songs. Even the throwaways like Heavenly House Boat Blues have real craft in the lyrics. A great writer but perhaps not a great voice. His chord structure was not complicated or unnecessary but it carried the lyric and the melody. Listen Our Mother The Mountain. The ascending and descending bass lines could carry the melody by themselves. Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls reads like a medieval cautionary tale in present day English. At first it seems a murder ballad but in the end it isn't. Let me tell you a story 'bout a girl I knew Fairest skin with eyes of blue I swear to the lord that I loved her true It's a year now she's been gone Tecumseh Valley follows this same path. It is as if Townes wrote an entire novella and told a complete story in a few short verses. I would strongly endorse his music. Don Meixner |