Townes Van Zandt - Down Home 1985 - Clear Green Vinyl

Townes Van Zandt - Down Home 1985 - Clear Green VinylTownes Van Zandt was an American singer songwriter. He is widely held in high regard for his poetic and often heroically sad songs. In 1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularised it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song "Pancho and Lefty", reaching number one on the Billboard country music chart. Much of his life was spent touring various dive bars, often living in cheap motel rooms and backwoods cabins. And for much of the

flute and fiddle drawing the sound to higher realms

Released four years after her groundbreaking solo debut

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sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes

Ed Harcourt and more

Pop music was strictly forbidden so their discovery of key punk and rock influences was covert and somewhat recent

Guitarists Eric Bachmann and Eric Johnson

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Meaning there aren't many choruses to hang on to here

It sounded like no one else on Earth

vulnerable but through sheer strength of will

Taylor Hawkins