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17 Dec 06 - 07:48 AM (#1911657) Subject: Townes Van Zandt From: GUEST,jOhn Just been introduced to his music, its really good, he;s a dead american bloke. theres a website, townesvanzandt.com have a listen. |
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17 Dec 06 - 08:37 AM (#1911696) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Leadfingers I'll agree with you on that jOhn - and nice to see you posting , though how come you're only a guest ? |
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17 Dec 06 - 09:29 AM (#1911733) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: GUEST,DonMeixner There are many over here who think Townes was/is one of the best American song wrinters to have ever lived. I am one of them. Certainly in my opinion he is in the top 20. Don |
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17 Dec 06 - 09:38 AM (#1911737) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: jeffp Agreed. He was one of the greatest. |
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17 Dec 06 - 10:16 AM (#1911763) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Max Saw a great documentary about him recently. I hightly recomend Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt. Very tragic demons. Great songwriter. |
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17 Dec 06 - 01:05 PM (#1911872) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Barry Finn Yes a great songwriter & widely loved & respected over hear. Glad to hear that he's getting known over there too. Barry |
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17 Dec 06 - 01:10 PM (#1911880) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Amos Sir John, a pleasure to see your typos again! Townes was certainly brilliant in episodes. The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty, The Tale of the Dead Whore under the Stairs (Tecumseh Valley), If You Needed Me, and a score of other really fine songs. But a crazy mess o'demons, as you say. A |
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17 Dec 06 - 01:24 PM (#1911893) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Ebbie Van Zandt is one of those puzzles without answer to me. On the one hand, people like that seem bent on destroying themselves; on the other hand, had they not gone into music, for instance, maybe they would have destroyed themselves much earlier. Buddy Tabor, a talented songwriter in his own right, brought Townes VZ to Juneau a couple of years before he died. His 'handlers' hewed to a fine balance between 'enough' and 'too much', even on stage. Maybe it is kind of like what happened in literature. There was a time - I hope it is over - when upcoming writers seemed to think they had to live a hard life in order to be taken seriously even by themselves. |
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17 Dec 06 - 07:27 PM (#1912193) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: open mike Townes Van Zandt home page |
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17 Dec 06 - 07:39 PM (#1912204) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Declan I saw Townes at the Cambridge Folk Festival about a year before he died. He delivered one of my favourite one liners ever (I'm aware that he tended to repeat his inter-song banter, so most have you may have heard it before). It was something like "I'm Schizophrenic, but Hell that makes two of us". Great line. Great songwriter. sorely missed. |
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17 Dec 06 - 07:57 PM (#1912215) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Amos I have often thought that syndrome was a backlash against the saccharine flowery writings of the Victorian era. A |
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18 Dec 06 - 07:39 PM (#1913140) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Big Al Whittle Best reading of van Zandt in England a ce moment - .....the great Jack Hudson! Not appearing at you local folk festival or your local folk radio, cos they're all assholes. Purely a professional opinion! |
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18 Dec 06 - 09:35 PM (#1913227) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: GUEST For me, Townes was Orpheus, destined to be torn apart by Maenads in a Bacchanalian frenzy. A tragic story too oft repeated amongst our great musical artists. But that is Orpheus. |
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18 Dec 06 - 10:06 PM (#1913245) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Big Mick An absolute hero of mine. Maybe one of greatest songwriters and more importantly, interpreters ever. If you get a chance, go read the interview on TVZ central by following the link above. Every so often I need to get back in touch with how to sing and make folks feel what I need them to feel. I usually start by reading the unedited story on that site. I think I will go read it now. Mick |
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18 Dec 06 - 11:43 PM (#1913302) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: number 6 "Maybe one of greatest songwriters and more importantly, interpreters ever." I agree Mick ... evidence of that statement can be found in his song "Tecusmseh Valley". That song hits the heart every time I hear him sing it. biLL |
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19 Dec 06 - 01:00 AM (#1913321) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Lonesome EJ Time she's a fast old train she's here and she's gone and she won't come again so won't you take my hand ...If I had No Place to Fall |
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19 Dec 06 - 03:06 AM (#1913350) Subject: RE: Townes Van Zandt From: Barry Finn Yup #6, I've been toying with "Tecumseh Valley" for some time now but I can't get to the place where I feel that I can do it justice so it's still sits on my tongue. Right from the beginning, where the 1st line introduces our woman to the 2nd & 3rd lines where the listener can't help but so soon, already falls for our fallen woman with the lines: "Her ways were free, and it seemed to me, That sunshine walked beside her". After that I feel as if I've been set up by Townes & I've been willingly trapped into the rest of the song. It's taken me a long while & I still can't quite get to giving those line their due. Barry |