TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.1667
Townes Van Zandt Album Rankings
1
Townes Van Zandt had released half a dozen studio albums beforeLive at the Old Quarterappeared in 1977.
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I wish I'd written every one," Townes Van Zandt says of the 15 songs he covers on this deceptively informal, frequently intense album, assembled from live shows recorded "over a number of years in joi
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3
Like Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt is most at home chronicling the pain of the down and out and wrestling with the extremes of human emotion.
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4
When Townes Van Zandt died, on January 1st, 1997, he left a legacy of being, arguably, the finest songwriter ever to come out of Texas.
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5
Townes Van Zandt was a big secret even in his native Texas when he made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1969. This is the gig in full, his haunted voice and verse in their naked youth.
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6
Although he died too early, aged 52 in 1997, Townes Van Zandt packed in plenty. He emerged when first-hand knowledge of Elvis, Hank, Dale Watson and Roy Acuff was still possible.
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If to live is to fly, as Townes Van Zandt would warble, then he himself, to quote from his devout admirer Willie Nelson, was an angel flying too close to the ground.
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8
You could go broke and mad navigating the many live releases from the Texas Dylan's final years.
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9
With the market flooded with all-too-often mediocre singer-songwriters, it would be very easy to overlook Townes Van Zandt. But it would be a mistake, because Townes is one of the very best.
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10
With the market flooded with all-too-often mediocre singer-songwriters, it would be very easy to overlook Townes Van Zandt. But it would be a mistake, because Townes is one of the very best.
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15
Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt(Perdenales)When Townes Van Zandt left this mortal coil on January 1, 1997, he left behind a legacy of songs that no one will ever match.
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25
While Townes Van Zandt was still recording for the Poppy label, he decided to open his sound up to more of the influences that helped to make him a songwriter in the first place.
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26
With the market flooded with all-too-often mediocre singer-songwriters, it would be very easy to overlook Townes Van Zandt. But it would be a mistake, because Townes is one of the very best.
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32
If you're a fan of Townes Van Zandt, the man that many consider the finest songwriter Texas has ever produced, there's no doubt you're going to want a copy ofIn the Beginning.
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35
It's almost inconceivable that an artist like Townes Van Zandt can still be found. He's an extraordinary songwriter and guitarist, and he's equipped with a fine, haunting country moan of a voice.
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41
In 1990, Townes Van Zandt was working on a three-CD retrospective for which he was rerecording much of his repertoire.
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44
Normal's fascinating Documentary is culled from six hours of interviews with Austin radio producer Larry Monroe, interspersing Van Zandt's personal reflections with unreleased performances of some of
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45
The only thing wrong with this album is its title. Texas Rain (with the subtitle "The Texas Hill Country Recordings") doesn't suggest anything about the contents.
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46
Abnormal was released one year after the 1997 death of Townes Van Zandt.
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48
Culled from the same European tour dates as Abnormal and The Highway Kind, this set of minimal live performances features a number of true Van Zandt classics, including "Snowin' on Raton," "To Live's
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49
This was recorded in Nashville in the mid-1970s, and was to be Townes' seventh studio album, but supposedly the tapes vanished.
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