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Record: Very Good Plus (VG+) Strong VG+ or better Cover: Good Plus (G+) NO Writing,NO stickers  Labels: Clean! Townes Van Zandt S/T 1978 United States Tomato 12" Stereo LP SB-16038
Townes Van Zandt

S/T
1978 United States Tomato LP

Hard to Find, fine value play copy

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Vinyl: Very Good Plus (VG+) Strong VG+ or better
Sleeve: Good Plus (G+) NO Writing,NO stickers

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Townes Van Zandt ?– Townes Van Zandt Label: Tomato ?– TOM-7014 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk Rock, Country Rock Tracklist A1 For The Sake Of The Song 5:10 A2 Columbine 2:37 A3 Waiting Around To Die 2:42 A4 Don't Take It Too Bad 2:49 A5 Colorado Girl 3:16 B1 Lungs 2:17 B2 I'll Be Here In The Morning 2:54 B3 Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel 5:09 B4 (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria 4:46 B5 None But The Rain 2:19 Credits Producer – Jim Malloy, Kevin Eggers Notes Recorded and mastered at Bradley's Barn, Nashville, Tennessee. Originally released by Poppy Records in 1969.

TOWNES VAN ZANDT S/T 1978 Tomato LP HEAR outsider folk SSW Americana John Townes Van Zandt I[1] (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American singer-songwriter. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You" and "To Live Is to Fly", are considered standards of their genre. While alive, Van Zandt had a small and devoted fanbase, but he never had a successful album or single and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print.[2][3] In 1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularized it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song "Pancho and Lefty," scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts.[2][4] Despite achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various dive bars,[5] often living in cheap motel rooms, backwoods cabins, and on friends' couches.[3] Van Zandt was notorious for his drug addictions,[6] alcoholism,[6] and his tendency to tell tall tales.[7] When young, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and insulin shock therapy erased much of his long-term memory.[8][9][10] Van Zandt died on New Years Day 1997 from health problems stemming from years of substance abuse.[6] The 2000s saw a resurgence of interest in Van Zandt.[2] During the decade, two books, a documentary film, and a number of magazine articles about the singer were created.[2] Van Zandt's music has been covered by such notable and varied musicians as Bob Dylan,[11] Nanci Griffith, Norah Jones,[12] Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Cowboy Junkies, Wade Bowen, Guy Clark, Andrew Bird, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss,[13] Gillian Welch, Laura Marling, The Avett Brothers, Frank Turner and Devendra Banhart. Contents [show] Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Born in Fort Worth, Texas, into a wealthy oil family, Townes Van Zandt was a third-great-grandson of Isaac Van Zandt (a prominent leader of the Republic of Texas) and a second great-grandson of Khleber Miller Van Zandt (a Confederate Major and one of the founders of Fort Worth).[8] Van Zandt County in east Texas was named after his family in 1848. Townes' parents were Harris Williams Van Zandt (1913–1966) and Dorothy Townes (1919–1983).[14][15] He had two siblings, Bill and Donna. Harris was a corporate lawyer, and his career required the family to move several times during the 1950s and 1960s.[16] In 1952 the family transplanted from Fort Worth to Midland, Texas, for six months before moving to Billings, Montana. At Christmas in 1956, Townes' father gave him a guitar, which he practiced while wandering the countryside.[17] He would later tell an interviewer that "watching Elvis Presley's October 28, 1956, performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was the starting point for me becoming a guitar player... I just thought that Elvis had all the money in the world, all the Cadillacs and all the girls, and all he did was play the guitar and sing. That made a big impression on me."[1] In 1958 the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. Van Zandt would remember his time in Colorado fondly and would often visit it as an adult. He would also later refer to Colorado in the songs "My Proud Mountains," "Colorado Girl," and "Snowin' On Raton." During his youth Townes was noted as a good student and active in team sports.[18] In grade school, he received a high IQ score and his parents began grooming him to become a lawyer or senator.[9] Fearing that his family would move again, he willingly decided to attend Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota.[19] He received a score of 1170 when he took the SAT in January 1962.[20] His family soon moved to Houston, Texas. The University of Colorado at Boulder accepted Van Zandt as a student in 1962. In the spring of his second year, his parents flew to Boulder to bring Townes back to Houston, apparently worried about his binge drinking and episodes of depression.[9] They admitted him to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was diagnosed with manic depression. He received three months of insulin shock therapy, which erased much of his long-term memory.[8][9] Afterwards, his mother's "biggest regret in life was that she had allowe Country Alternative Country/Americana,Progressive Country 33 RPM  1970s[edit] The years between 1968 and 1973 would prove to be Van Zandt's most prolific era.[2] He released six albums during the time period: "For the Sake of the Song", Our Mother the Mountain, Townes Van Zandt, Delta Momma Blues, High, Low and in Between, and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. Among the tracks written for these albums were "To Live Is to Fly," "Pancho and Lefty", and "If I Needed You". These songs would eventually raise Van Zandt to near-legend status in American and European songwriting circles.[2] In 1972 Van Zandt recorded tracks for an album with a working title of Seven Come Eleven, which would remain unreleased for many years due to a dispute between his manager Kevin Eggers and producer Jack Clement. Eggers either could not or refused to pay for the studio sessions, so Clement erased the master tapes. However, before they were deleted, Eggers sneaked into the studio and recorded rough mixes of the songs on to a cassette tape. Tracks from the aborted Seven Come Eleven debacle would later surface on The Nashville Sessions. In 1975 Van Zandt was featured prominently in the documentary film Heartworn Highways with Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Steve Young, Gamble Rogers, Charlie Daniels and David Allan Coe. His segment of the film was shot at his run-down trailer home in Austin, Texas, where Van Zandt is shown drinking straight whiskey during the middle of the day, shooting and playing with guns, and performing the songs "Waitin' Around to Die" and "Pancho & Lefty."[24] His soon-to-be second wife Cindy and dog Geraldine (a large, "keenly intelligent" half-wolf, half-husky) are also featured in the film.[25] In 1977 Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas was released. The album showcased Van Zandt solo at a 1973 concert before a small audience, and less elaborately produced than many of his early records.[26] The album received positive reviews,[27] and is considered by many to be among the best albums that the songwriter ever released.[27][28][29] Several points on the album showcased his dry sense of humor, a feature that also showed in some of his songwriting. In the mid-1970s, Van Zandt split from his longtime manager, Kevin Eggers.[2] He found a new manager, John Lomax III (grandson of the famed folk music historian John Lomax), who set up a fan club for Van Zandt.[30] Though the club was only advertised through small ads in the back of music magazines, Lomax immediately began to receive hundreds of impassioned letters from around the world written by people who felt touched by Van Zandt.[30] Some of the letters described how his material often served as a crutch for those who were dealing with depression.[30] In the summer of 1978, the singer fired Lomax and re-hired Eggers. He soon after signed to Eggers' new label, Tomato Records.[2] The following year, he recorded Flyin' Shoes; he would not release another album until 1987's At My Window. Despite critical acclaim, Van Zandt remained a cult figure. He normally played small venues (often to crowds of fewer than fifty people) but began to move towards playing larger venues (and even made a handful of television appearances) during the 1990s. For much of the 1970s, he lived a reclusive life outside of Nashville in a tin-roofed, bare-boards shack with no heat, plumbing or telephone, occasionally appearing in town to play shows.[25] Steve Earle would later say that Van Zandt's primary concerns during this time period were planting morning glories, listening to Paul Harvey's radio show, and watching the sitcom Happy Days. 1980s – 1990s[edit] Several of Van Zandt's compositions were recorded by other artists, such as Emmylou Harris who, with Don Williams, had a No. 3 country hit in 1981 with "If I Needed You," and Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, the pair taking "Pancho & Lefty" to number one on the country charts in 1983. Van Zandt had a small cameo appearance in the video for the song. In his later years he recorded less frequently, his voice and singing style altered in part because of his lifestyle and alcoholism. However, he continue Townes Van Zandt S/T 1978 United States Tomato 12" LP Cover: Good Plus (G+) NO Writing,NO stickers Record: Very Good Plus (VG+) Strong VG+ or better Labels: Clean!  SB-16038

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