Artist: Townes Van Zandt
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Tribute To Townes Van Zandt – Tivoli (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Invariably, when a loved one passes away, there are loose ends to tie up. Words are left unspoken, issues are unresolved, and the hands of time can’t be turned back to accommodate an easy farewell. Townes Van Zandt left plenty of unfinished business in his wake after his death at age 52 on New Year’s [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Townes Van Zandt – In the Beginning
No one would ever mistake Townes Van Zandt for Red Foley, not even before the ravages of drugs and booze rendered his vocals brittle and unsure; near the end, his voice was the sound of dissipation itself. And it’d be a stretch to say that Townes is crooning on this collection of newly unearthed demos [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Townes Van Zandt’s Sixth Annual Wake – Old Quarter (Galveston, TX)
“Thank you for coming. Townes will be late, as usual,” Rex Bell, owner of the Old Quarter and MC for the evening, wryly noted after opening this year’s wake with a foot-thumping rendition of Van Zandt’s gospel-tinged “Two Hands”. Marking the seventh anniversary of his death to the day, Van Zandt’s friends, fans and songwriters [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark – Together At The Bluebird Café
The suspicion lingers that somewhere in Nashville — a front porch, a living room, a converted garage with a well-stocked refrigerator — the best songwriters sit and trade works-in-progress late into the night, and magic happens. Well, some of ‘em do hang out together, and sometimes there are rumors of spectacular picking parties. But mostly [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Townes Van Zandt Tribute – Cactus Cafe (Austin, TX)
When Townes Van Zandt died January 1, 1997, Butch Hancock and other friends fulfilled his booked dates to honor his memory. Hancock has turned this into a tradition by hosting a concert on Townes’ birthday every year. Held at the Cactus Cafe, this year’s Annual Townes Van Zandt Birthday Tribute & Celebration was both a [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Townes Van Zandt Tribute / Will Van Zandt Benefit – Boo’s Hideaway (Raleigh, NC)
When navigating the winding hallways that take you to the aptly named Boo’s Hideaway, it’s tempting to bellow “Hello, Cleveland!” and ask a custodian for directions. From its tucked-away digs in the bottom corner of a large building that also houses a bowling alley and several other entertainment options, Boo’s has hosted Buck Owens and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Townes Van Zandt – In Pain
As with many of the latter-day Townes Van Zandt releases, In Pain primarily gathers live solo versions of some of his better-known songs recorded during the final years of his life. Most of the 16 tracks here were recorded in November ’94 (a little more than two years before his death) at a club in [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Townes Van Zandt / Dale Watson / Neko Case / Kelly Hogan / Tift Merritt And The Carbines
A decade ago the major labels decreed the death of vinyl, somehow setting off a flood of 7-inch singles that, at one point, arrived at the rate of 200 a month. It’s a slow trickle now, but there’s still reason to move the fax machine off the turntable and pay attention. “Riding The Range”/”Dirty Old [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Townes Van Zandt – A Far Cry From Dead
Like Dock Boggs, Townes Van Zandt was obsessed with death. Both men were shadowed by their own mortality, obsessing over it and collapsing under it time and again in song. Both men ran from death in their early years, but accepted its haunting abide later in life. On Boggs’ last recordings (cut during the early [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #19 Jan-Feb 1999
Townes Van Zandt – A gentleman and a shaman
If you can see through the hangover haze and black-eyed pea tradition that ties one First Day to another, January 1st can serve as a dog-eared page for the book of days that follow. But on New Year’s Day 1997, I saw the cycle of mortal life more poetically than I ever had before. The [...]
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