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Townes van Zandt: For The Sake Of The Song

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  • Interpret: Townes van Zandt

  • Album titlle: For The Sake Of The Song

  • Label DOMINO

  • Genre Country

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 5034202205326

  • weight in Kg 0.1
van Zandt, Townes - For The Sake Of The Song CD 1
01 For The Sake Of The Song Townes van Zandt
02 Tecumseh Valley Townes van Zandt
03 Many A Fine Lady Townes van Zandt
04 Quick Silver Daydreams Of Maria Townes van Zandt
05 Waitin' Around To Die Townes van Zandt
06 I'll Be There In The Morning Townes van Zandt
07 Sad CInderella Townes van Zandt
08 The Velvet Voices Townes van Zandt
09 Talkin' Karate Blues Townes van Zandt
10 All Your Young Servants Townes van Zandt
11 Sixsteen Summers, Fifteen Falls Townes van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt Pancho And Lefty During the third week of February, 1973, Townes... more
"Townes van Zandt"

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 - For The Sake Of The Song CD 1
01 For The Sake Of The Song
02 Tecumseh Valley
03 Many A Fine Lady
04 Quick Silver Daydreams Of Maria
05 Waitin' Around To Die
06 I'll Be There In The Morning
07 Sad CInderella
08 The Velvet Voices
09 Talkin' Karate Blues
10 All Your Young Servants
11 Sixsteen Summers, Fifteen Falls