Townes Van ZandtA Lone Star Webstation Central | Blue Sky Homepage | Record Collection | Insurgent Country Homepage | Lyrics Townes Van Zandt song covered on Robert Plant's Grammy-nominated Band of Joy. NOTES & LINKS January 5, 2011 Visit the Texas Music Office w/Calendar of Live Texas Music Events and just about everything else you need to know about Texas music. Townes is listed in the history section with other Texas Music Pioneers. Don't forget to visit the Townes Van Zandt Blue Sky Homepage for research and archived material about our favorite Texas music legend. Continuing thanks to Len Coop for Blue Sky updates. 15th ANNUAL TOWNES VAN ZANDT WAKE January 1st, 2012 All Townes' songs New Year's Day night AT THE OLD QUARTER ACOUSTIC CAFE 413 20th St., Galveston, Texas, 77550 Reservations highly recommended. Contact: Wrecks Bell Phone 409.762.9199 and/or 409.795.7777 Note: Townes recorded what is generally considered his best live/solo album at the original Old Quarter, Houston, in the summer of 1973. Click here for larger image and album notes. Available from townesvanzandt.com. Another note about Townes by Robert Palmer: "If Townes Van Zandt had lived 40 years ago, he might be as revered, and as widely known, as Hank Williams is today. The comparison isn't farfetched. Both men live in their music, as if singing and writing and being human were the same thing, and all as natural as breathing. Their song-writing craft and vocal musicianship are exceptional, but what you hear is beyond all that; it seems to be the direct, untrammeled expression of a man's soul . . . Hank Williams died in 1953, in the back seat of a Cadillac. But figures like Mr. Van Zandt remind us that the wandering bard, that American archetype, is still very much with us. He's the guy in the cowboy hat, sitting in the corner of the bus station with his beat-up guitar case. And his music will live long after the voices that declare it in or out of fashion have been stilled and forgotten." - from "A Hard Road, Seldom Taken," by Robert Palmer (The New York Times, June 7, 1987) More about Townes: See/Hear Townes Van Zandt Interview - Oslo - NRK Lydverket - YouTube video in which Townes talks about learning to play guitar and write his own songs. Don't forget to visit Jeanene Van Zandt's Townes Van Zandt Central Store to purchase Townes Van Zandt recordings and related merchandise. Also... Len Coop's TVZ Blue Sky Homepage is still a must for research and archived material about our favorite Texas music legend. © 1995-2011. All names, images, music, text, etc., contained within are copyrighted material of the respective artists and/or their representative agents, unless otherwise specified (where known). All material presented is strictly intended to honor and create a higher awareness of the music of Townes Van Zandt and related artists. If anyone has objections to or corrections for any of the material included on this site please let me know, and said items will be corrected or removed.