Sold Date: May 27, 2018
Start Date: May 17, 2018
Final Price: $45.77 (USD)
Bid Count: 11
Seller Feedback: 89
Buyer Feedback: 34

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Label/Catalog Number:            Tomato Records    TOM 7017

Condition: 
      Media:       NM  Beautiful high gloss! No apparent flaws. Labels in perfect shape. You should own this one!  (see photos)     
      Sleeve:     NM  Very, very light shelf wear. No seam splits. No stains. Nearly like you just brought it home from the
                                 record shop.  (see photos)
      Matrix:      Side 1:   TOM-7017-1  RFS/MC (etched)  S-5-748     Side 2:  TOM-7017-2  RFS/MC (etched)  S-5-747

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Tracklist
A1     Loretta     3:45
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
A2     No Place To Fall     3:28
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
A3     Flyin' Shoes     4:21
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
A4     Who Do You Love     3:58
                    Written-By – Ellas McDaniel
A5     When She Don't Need Me     3:09
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
B1     Dollar Bill Blues     2:59
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
B2     Rex's Blues     2:28
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
B3     Pueblo Waltz     3:00
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
B4     Brother Flower     2:52
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt
B5     Snake Song     2:27
                    Written-By – Townes Van Zandt

Companies, etc.
    Recorded At – American Studios, Nashville
    Mastered At – Master Control, Nashville
    Lacquer Cut At – Europadisk
Credits
    Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals – Billy Earl McClelland, Phillip Donnelly
    Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals, Engineer, Producer, Remix – Chips Moman
    Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals – Townes Van Zandt
    Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin – Randy Scruggs
    Backing Vocals – Billy Burnette, Toni Wine
    Bass – Tommy Cogbill
    Design – Milton Glaser
    Drums, Percussion – Eddy Anderson
    Engineer – Don Cartee
    Harmonica – Gary Scruggs
    Keyboards – Bobby Emmons
    Mastered By – Bob Sowell
    Photography By – Wood Newton
    Piano – Spooner Oldham
    Steel Guitar – Jimmy Day

Note
This version has a label design having track A1 listed above center hole and a 3 cm diameter pressing ring seen on label.

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Album Review
Steve Earle said of Townes van Zandt: "He's the best songwriter in the whole world … I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table and say that." A cult songwriter battling alcoholism, drug addiction, and bipolar disorder, Van Zandt's love of Elvis Presley and Hank Williams inspired work such as Flyin' Shoes – bleak songs, but full of energy.
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Van Zandt found Flyin' Shoes at his nearby river, where he'd frequently sit and talk to the water. He was daydreaming about the Battle of Franklin, and the fate of wounded soldiers in the Civil War (both Confederates and Yankees) who were forced to lie there all night, awaiting rescue or death. The song is about a man who doesn't think he'll make it through to morning, but the lyrics are more universal. For me it reads like an ode to escape: over the last 18 months I've found myself drawn to songs that are about this desire to run away and be free.

I first encountered Flyin Shoes via Be Here to Love Me – a brilliant documentary about Van Zandt – and was immediately struck by the raw beauty of the track. When recording a version of it for my new album of covers, Boys Don't Cry, I wanted to bring out the gospel element: this was a hymn for a dying man, and a soundtrack to a noble soldier's final hours. So I told all the musicians to get into character, almost, and to perform as if this was the last thing that they'd ever play. We added a harmonica line as the "final solo" of the fallen soldier, and the backing vocals at the end of the song are supposed to have this sense of ascension.

Tackling songs such as Flyin' Shoes is like going into the heart of darkness. But it's all about telling the story faithfully, and finding the right emotions in the original recordings. Townes van Zandt may not be a household name but his songwriting, and Flyin' Shoes especially, remains incredibly powerful. The inscription on his gravestone apparently reads: "To Live Is To Fly."    by Rumer's Old Music May 21, 2012 on www.theguardian.com

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