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Townes Van Zandt - For The Sake Of The Song

VMP ESSENTIALS VOL N E70- Issued October 2018

VMP EXCLUSIVE PRESSING

This is a VMP Exclusive Record, and you can't get this specific variation anywhere else.

50TH ANNIVERSARY VINYL EDITION

- Heavyweight Translucent Blue Vinyl

- Remastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering

- Exclusive Liner Notes Booklet, 12x12 Art Print

- No E070

Exclusive Features & Extras

Color: Midnight Blue

Foil Stamped

Exclusive: VMP Exclusive

Jacket Style: Tip-On

Jacket Type: Single

Label: Fat Possum

Mastering Engineering: Jason Ward

Mastering Studio: Chicago Mastering

Pressing Location: GZ

Release Type: Reissue

Remastering Details: Remastered

BY THE NUMBERS

1LP

Vinyl Size: 12 INCH

Weight: 180

Original Release Year: 1968

Speed: 33 1/2 RPM

"Townes Van Zandt's work, as far-reaching and as universal as it has become begs for professorship. It's a love language understood by all who find it, yet one that remains acutcly difficult to translate to those who haven't. No one understood this better than his earliest fans. It's perhaps why his first studio album, For the Sake of the Song, remains a point of controversy among anyone who discovered Townes Van Zandt outside of these LP's grooves and so an album with such accoutrements, as this album has in spades, rings false, however unfairly, among purists. Taken in context, though, For the Sake of the Song is a gorgeous study in polarity. Each anchor is an artist from wildly different backgrounds, united under the profound effect of songcraft. Townes Van Zandt the songwriter was the antithesis of bells and whistles"

- Erin Osmon is a Los Angeles-based music journalist who lived in Chicago for 15 years.