Townes Van ZandtA Lone Star Webstation Home | TVZ Central | Blue Sky | Insurgent Country | Record Collection | Covers | OQAC Last page update: February 19, 2008 TOWNES VAN ZANDT COVERS & TRIBUTES Although Townes (March 7, 1944 - January 1, 1997) is no longer with us the Record Collection continues to grow, and he lives on in the songs we play. Now we have some new translations in three different Dutch dialects. TVZ TRIBUTE RECORDING BY THREE DUTCH ARTISTS This tribute to Townes by three Dutch artists contains 6 tracks in 3 different Dutch dialects and was released December 2007...only 700 copies. Click here for more information. Playlist: 1. Gerrit Breteler - St.Jan de Doarmer (St.John the Gambler) 2. Gerrit Breteler- Sjong en Flaen (To live is to fly) 3. Martin Korthuis - Als ik die wil zain (If I Needed You) 4. Martin Korthuis - Wachten op t in (Waitin around to die) 5. Egbert Meyers - An mien venster (At My Window) 6. Egbert Meyers - Niks meer (Nothin') 1&2 in Frisian dialect, 3&4 in Gronings dialect, 5&6 in Drents dialect. Cover (above) added as pic. Not yet added to main covers page. Thanks to Patrick in Cologne, Germany, for sending this news. SCROLL DOWN FOR PREVIOUS NOTES & LINKS. Please be sure to visit Townes Van Zandt Central for more related information and shopping links. Remembering Townes 11th ANNUAL TVZ WAKE New Year's Day Night Tue., Jan. 1, 2008 @ The Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe 413 - 20th Street, Galveston, TX 77550 Phone: 409-762-9199 * 409-737-4915 Email: wrecks@wt.net All Townes' songs all night, hosted by Wrecks Bell. Reservations recommended. AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION HONORS TOWNES VAN ZANDT The Americana Music Association's 2007 award recognizing outstanding achievement by an artist or industry contributor who is no longer with us goes to Townes. THIRD ANNUAL TVZ TRIBUTE Fast link: Click here for big pic w/multiple concert images & related video links. The 3rd Annual Townes Van Zandt Italian Tribute Concert took place at Teatro dell’Oratorio in Figino Serenza, Como, Italy, on October 29, 2007. Click here to read an account of that evening by performing songwriter Davide Ravera (aka "Hazydavey") and here for related video links. More audio/video links: "Nothin'" - (video) Eric Taylor "Where I Lead Me" - Eric Taylor "Tower Song" - Renzo Cozzani "Flyin' Shoes" - Tarantula Waltz Band "Flyin' Shoes" - Flyin' Roads (Luke Day and Milena Piazzoli) "Delta Momma Blues" - Veronica Sbergia "Waitin' 'Round to Die" - Davide Ravera "Hazydavey" Romi Mayes (titles not yet known) OTHER COVERS & TRANSLATIONS OF SONGS WRITTEN BY TOWNES (Some not yet added to covers page.) ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS COVER "NOTHIN'" ON RAISING SAND Clarification: This collaborative effort by Plant & Krauss includes a cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin'" as well as "an intriguing selection of songs" by others. Release date: 10/23/2007 Label: Rounder Compact Disc:(CDROUN9075 / 0 11661 9075 2 2) Long Playing Vinyl:(LPROUN9075 / 0 11661 9075 1 5) Listen...this is soooh cool... DAVIDE RAVERA TRANSLATES "BLACK CROW BLUES" Click here to read lyrics in Italian (scroll down left hand column of Davey's blog). Other TVZ titles translated into Italian by Ravera: "Sanitarium Blues," "Rake," & " To Live's To Fly." ANOTHER GENERATION DIGS VAN ZANDT'S MOUNTAIN BAND: NAVEL (Swiss Alt/Rock/Punk band) Our Mother the Mountain/Live @ Usine Geneve (Part.1, 08:59) Click here to see/hear video or here to listen to this and other Navel songs now posted on the band's MySpace site: www.myspace.com/navelofswitzerland A note from the band: Townes Van Zandt, 1969, "Our Mother The Mountain," a song like a feverish dusty dream of stone. "Our Mother The Mountain" was recorded by Townes Van Zandt for his 2nd album, so titled on Tomato Records. Townes died on New Year's Day 1997... The Navelgang has recorded this Townes-song because it is more than just a yesterday, and maybe forever in our lungs...Will be B-side of our new single...Navel is on Townes' side or on no-one's side. RECADO THE NEW CD BY VINCE BELL. All songs written by Vince Bell except for "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold," written by Townes Van Zandt. In his journal, Bell says these recados (messages) "wind like alleyways" through the years of his writing. Click here to listen to cool sound collage of 30-second clips from the 11 songs on Recado and see slideshow of photographs from various Vince Bell performances. From Bill Lavery's Village Records Catalogue: Bell has pretty much had a stealth type career, but it doesn't seem to have any impact on the quality of his music. On this new recording he's still at the top of his game... RHONDA HARRIS ALBUM OF TVZ COVERS The Danish group Rhonda Harris released an album of covers called "Tell The World We Tried - The Songs Of Townes Van Zandt" in 2006. Five of the tracks are on myspace.com: www.myspace.com/norlund (Lungs, Waitin' Around To Die, Two Girls) www.myspace.com/rhondaharriscph (Kathleen, Rake) "ST. JOHN THE GAMBLER" Covered by Texas in Paris - LISTEN@ http://www.myspace.com/texasinparis Lyrics/music by Townes BOB DYLAN'S PAGE OF LIVE PERFORMANCES AND RARE RECORDINGS: INCLUDES ONE OF OUR FAVORITE COVERS OF "PANCHO & LEFTY" Listen to El Bob singing "Pancho & Lefty" at the Bonnaroo 2004 Music Festival, Manchester, Tennessee (6/11/04). Related note: Townes recorded several Dylan titles for ROADSONGS. A COUPLE OF SONGS AND A POEM ABOUT TOWNES A SONG FOR TOWNES "New Year's Day" Written & performed by David Byboth. (MP3 courtesy of David Byboth, a fine performing Texas songwriter aka "The White Collar Redneck." Another very nice version recorded ten years later will be on David's soon-to-be-released debut album, MY MIND'S EYE.) Related songwriter's note: "That recording...brings back some great memories...was actually recorded live in room 544 of the Driskill Hotel with Vince Pawless playing lead guitar not long after I wrote it (1997). It was recorded with a miniDAT and two microphones with about 5 or 6 people in the room by a fellow named Michael Shaw..." Related artist link: Click here to listen to more songs by David Byboth posted on his MySpace site. ANOTHER SONG FOR TOWNES VAN ZANDT: THE SONGWRITER'S SONGWRITER “The Townes You Left Behind,” written by Kenny Butterill, has been hailed by many TVZ fans as the song that best speaks for them about how they felt about Townes. Click here to listen now and/or here for more information, lyrics, and free mp3 download. Kenny recorded it as a pre-release single from his "Just A Songwriter" CD. Thanks again to Kenny for writing and sharing it. Collector CD Single Cover Painting (image, right) of Townes Van Zandt by Melene Marie Brown. Note from Kenny's site: The Townes song originally took shape during the last week in May of 1997, approximately five months after legendary Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt had passed away on New Year's Day... In his usual fashion, Kenny worked on the tune, off and on, for a few years until it was ready. Then in the studio he got a couple of terrific players to join in... TOWNES VAN ZANDT'S JACKET A Poem by Peter O'Brien I saw Townes Van Zandt play in Dallas. He offered me a ride back to the motel. Out in the parking lot his pick-up had a flat. Townes Van Zandt took off his jacket, rolled up his shirtsleeves and changed the tire. An extraordinary man doing what an ordinary man does. Years later in Brighton on the south coast of England Townes Van Zandt walked onstage, strapped on his acoustic guitar, then spent several minutes trying to take off his jacket. An impossible task when you think about it. An ordinary man doing what an extraordinary man does. I told this story to the man who wrote "Daydream Believer." He knew Townes Van Zandt. The man who wrote "Daydream Believer" laughed and laughed.     If I were the man who wrote "Daydream Believer" I would laugh and laugh      all            the                   way                            to                                   the bank. PETER O'BRIEN'S NOTE TO JUDY GORDON, EDITOR-PUBLISHER OF PICKING UP THE TEMPO IN WHICH THIS POEM (ABOVE) FIRST APPEARED (AUGUST 2007): A true story, of course. You [editor] and Roxy were there for the first verse. Went on ahead in your pick-up and probably wondered what was keeping us. Let me know what you think. -- Peter LSW editor's note: Peter O'Brien is an author and publisher (Omaha Rainbow 1973-1988) and under his Sun Storm Records label launched the music and poetry of Roxy Gordon. Special thanks to Judy Gordon for permission to reprint. MORE RELATED LINKS: John Stewart wrote "Daydream Believer," a big hit for The Monkees. Click here for more about John Stewart (1939-2008) and Omaha Rainbow [2]. ELEVENTH ANNUAL TOWNES VAN ZANDT WAKE TUESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 1, 2008 At The Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe in Galveston. All Townes songs all night, hosted by Wrecks Bell. Note: Townes recorded what is generally considered his best live album at the original Old Quarter, Houston, in 1973, so if you can't make it down to Galveston, maybe you can take that old double album off the shelf and listen to Townes. Please be sure to visit TownesVanZandt.com and Len Coop's Blue Sky Townespage. We also like this interview/video of Townes covering Springsteen's RACING IN THE STREETS. © 1995-2008. 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. 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