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Last Updated: 12/29/2009

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Status: Single
City: Leicester
State: Midlands
Country: UK
Signup Date: 5/6/2009
October 28, 2009 - Wednesday 
Townes Van Zandt is a name bandied about as an artist you surely must have heard about?
John Townes Van Zandt, March 7, 1944 - January 1, 1997, was a singer-..songwriter and poet. He was too fond of drink and drugs and suffered from manic depression. He usually appeared at small venues, but you get the impression that today he could fill the Albert Hall. He never had a hit himself, though Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard scored a Billboard country No.1 with his ‘Pancho And Lefty’.
This compilation brings us 19 of his compositions covered by contemporary musicians from Australia, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, the UK and US. Represented are solo and band settings, from stark to sophisticated. Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time deliver ‘Pancho And Lefty’, Kevin Tihista treats us to ‘Still Looking For You’, while Chris Mills adds the dark edge to ‘Tecumseh Valley’. The Be Good Tanyas perform ‘Waiting Around To Die’, which has appeared on the American TV drama series ‘Breaking Bad’. More unusual presentations include Telafonica’s ‘St John The Gambler’ and Jad Fair’s ’Turnstyled, Junkpiled’.
This album works on two different levels, as an introduction to the work of a great songwriter and as a sampler of some splendid modern performers. (BEARDED)
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