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(Broadcasting Radio Records) 14 Tracks - Digipack - Live radio broadcast via WETS-FM from the... more

Townes van Zandt: Down Home Music - Live 1985 (CD)

(Broadcasting Radio Records) 14 Tracks - Digipack - Live radio broadcast via WETS-FM from the Down Home, Johnson City, Tennessee, April 18, 1985!
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contains 'Buckskin Stallion Blues' from the movie 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' 

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van Zandt, Townes - Down Home Music - Live 1985 (CD) CD 1
01 Dollar Bill Blues Townes van Zandt
02 Pancho And Lefty Townes van Zandt
03 Buckskin Stallion Blues Townes van Zandt
04 No Place To Fall Townes van Zandt
05 Talking Thunderbird Blues Townes van Zandt
06 Mr. Gold & Mr. Mud Townes van Zandt
07 If I Needed You Townes van Zandt
08 Snowing On Raton Townes van Zandt
09 To Live Is To Fly Townes van Zandt
10 Don't You Take It Too Bad Townes van Zandt
11 Snake Mountain Blues Townes van Zandt
12 Rake Townes van Zandt
13 Fraternity Blues Townes van Zandt
14 Colorado Girl Townes van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt Pancho And Lefty During the third week of February, 1973, Townes... more
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Townes Van Zandt

Pancho And Lefty

During the third week of February, 1973, Townes Van Zandt's sixth album, 'The Late Great',shipped out of United Artists Records' five warehouses across the country. The austere, black-and-white gatefold sleeve was embellished with two photos and a little over one hundred words, its minimalism foretelling the content. Townes' music hadn't always been so perfectly framed, nor had he so successfully balanced light and dark. The arrangements on his earlier LPs had sometimes been prettified or overwrought, but this time the backing was more in keeping with the tenor of his music. The album's title was a joke that probably alluded to the fact that Townes had nearly overshot the runway several times. The front cover still-life was framed by Gothic type as if it were a funeral invitation. The back cover photo was the polar opposite; Townes was alive and buzzed. Poppy Records boss Kevin Eggers said that he came up with the title to generate a little interest. Most people didn't know Townes was alive; perhaps they'd take notice if they thought he was dead.

All the words expended on Pancho And Lefty have compounded more than unraveled its enigma. In concert, Townes would preface it with a story longer than the song itself of how he wrote it in a motel after devotees of Billy Graham and the Guru Maharaji had taken every hotel room in Dallas. Was it set in the past or present? Were Pancho and Lefty men or metaphors? Cosmic Butch Cassidys? Perhaps even Townes wasn't sure. Jack Clement, who'd dubbed trumpets on Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire, added mariachi horns to one verse and strings to another. Neither was obtrusive, although Townes claimed that they went on without his say-so. Eggers wanted drums on the track but Townes refused. Emmylou Harris - a latter-day songcatcher, ferreting out obscure songs just as folklorists sought them in the mountains - recorded Pancho And Lefty in 1977. Six years later, it became a #1 country hit for the duo of Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. Since then hundreds of performers have recorded it, most recently the duo of Elizabeth Cook and Jason Isbell. Detail hounds note that the original 45 rendered the title as Poncho & Lefty and the original LP as 'Pauncho & Lefty,' Spanish clearly not being the first, second, or third language of anyone at Poppy Records.

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Tracklist
van Zandt, Townes - Down Home Music - Live 1985 (CD) CD 1
01 Dollar Bill Blues
02 Pancho And Lefty
03 Buckskin Stallion Blues
04 No Place To Fall
05 Talking Thunderbird Blues
06 Mr. Gold & Mr. Mud
07 If I Needed You
08 Snowing On Raton
09 To Live Is To Fly
10 Don't You Take It Too Bad
11 Snake Mountain Blues
12 Rake
13 Fraternity Blues
14 Colorado Girl