28th
Waiting Around to Die - Townes Van Zandt
For today another sullen blues track. Townes Van Zandt is SO GOOD. This is the first song he ever wrote. It is one of my favorite songs. Period. I had a hard time finding this album awhile ago, since it’s so good, and I think anyone who doesn’t have it should get it, I’ve uploaded his whole self titled album to mediafire.
Excerpts from Wikipedia
While alive, Van Zandt was labelled as a cult musician: though he had a small and devoted fanbase, he never had a successful album or single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print.[3][2] In 1983, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song “Pancho and Lefty”, scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts.[2] Despite achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various dive bars,[4] often living in cheap motel rooms, backwoods cabins and on friends’ couches.[3] Van Zandt was notorious for his drug addictions,[5] alcoholism,[5] and his tendency to tell tall tales.[6]
Influential in the sub-genre referred to as outlaw country, his Texas-grounded impact stretched farther than country. He has been cited as a source of inspiration by such artists as Bob Dylan,[27] Neil Young,[65] Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Nanci Griffith, Cowboy Junkies, Vetiver, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Caleb Followill of Kings Of Leon, Meat Puppets, Guy Clark,Rodney Crowell Steve Earle, Hoyt Axton, Tindersticks, Devendra Banhart, Norah Jones, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss…
Also this is probably one of the saddest videos I’ve ever seen. It’s amazing.
