Category: Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt – Memphis, TN (12/xx/96)

Townes van Zandt
Studio sessions, Memphis, TN
late 1996

01 Old Satan
02 Old Satan
03 Old Satan
04 Sweet The Time (spoken)
05 Harm’s Swift Way
06 RM Too
07 Townes’ Blues
08 Snow Flake (spoken)

These tracks are probably from studio sessions Townes did with Steve Shelley’s (Sonic Youth) band Two Dollar Guitar. In the spring of 1996 Townes was contacted by Steve Shelley, who informed Van Zandt that he was interested in recording and releasing an album for him on the band’s Ecstatic Peace label, funded by Geffen.

On December 19 or 20, Townes fell down the concrete stairs outside his home, badly injuring his hip. Townes refused medical treatment but showed up to the Memphis studio being pushed in a wheelchair. Shelley canceled the sessions due to Townes’ erratic behavior and drunkenness.

Harm’s Swift Way is likely the last song Townes wrote.

Lineage unknown

Townes Van Zandt – London, England (12/03/96)

Townes Van Zandt
The Borderline, London, UK
December 3, 1996

This was Townes last public performance

01 My Starter Won’t Start
02 Intro
03 Loretta
04 Pancho and Lefty
05 Intro
06 Dollar Bill Blues
07 Buckskin Stallion
08 Don’t Get Laid Much Joke
09 Katie Belle Blue
10 Intro
11 Marie – Waiting Around To Die – A Song For
12 Three Gins Joke
13 Short Hair Woman Blues
14 Intro
15 Ballad Of The Three Shrimps
16 Intro
17 Sanitarium Blues
18 Tecumseh Valley – Dead Flowers
— Encore
19 Three Penguins Joke – Doctor Jokes
20 Colorado Girl

Lineage : Sony ECM 907 microphone > Sony D7 DAT machine transferred via a
Tascam DA-20 Mk 2 DAT machine onto an HHb burnit CDr recorder…some level adjustment to eliminate ear-destruction when the applause kicks in.
CDr > EAC > Traders Little Helper > Flac8 sector aligned

Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark – Austin, TX (02/16/91)

Townes van Zandt and Guy Clark
Cactus Cafe, Austin TX
1991-02-16

01 No Lonesome Tune
02 LA Freeway
03 Mr Mudd and Mr Gold
04 Fraternity Blues
05 Old Friends
06 Marie
07 Texas 1947
08 Home Grown Tomatoes
09 Let Him Roll
10 intro to Pancho and Lefty
11 Pancho and Lefty
12 Snowiní on Raton
13 Desperados Waiting for a Train

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Townes Van Zandt: Shows by Date

xxxx.xx.xx – Covering Townes Van Zandt
1970.10.20 – New York, NY
1973-1995 – Deeper Blues
1985-1993 – Down Home and Abroad
1991.02.16 – Austin, TX – w/Guy Clark
1992.11.12 – Austin, TX
1993.06.18 – Helsinki, Finland
1993.11.20 – Bethlehem, PA
1994.04.28 – London, England
1994.11.07 – Frankfurt, Germany
1994.11.21 – Munich, Germany
1994.11.24 – Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994.11.27 – Munich, Germany
1995.01.17 – Austin, TX
1995.02.20 – Eugene, OR
1995.11.02 – Bethlehem, PA
1995.11.15 – Hanau, Germany
1995.11.20 – Munich, Germany
1995.12.xx – County Kilkenny, Ireland
1996.02.16 – San Francisco, CA
1996.12.xx – Memphis, TN
1996.12.03 – London, England
2007.01.18 – Paris, France – A Tribute to Townes

Richard Dobson – Paris, France (01/18/07) – A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt

A Tribute to TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Richard Dobson (RD) with guests : Ian Kent (IK), Johan Asherton (JA) and Terry Lee Hale (TLH)
Live at La Pomme D’Eve, Paris
January 18th, 2007

Soundboard recording
Lineage : 1rst generation CD from master>DBpoweramp>flacs
Recorded by : JoÎl, CD and artwork by Eric, courtesy of Parispal aka the President.

With great thanks to all the artists involved….

CD1 : Tribute at TVZ SET

01 – Tecumseh valley (IK) 6’38”
02 – Waiting around to die (IK) 3’12” (saturation on the recording)
03 – Intro JA-intro Ode to Townes (JA) 2’11”
04 – Ode to Townes (JA w/IK) 5’06”
05 – If I needed you (JA) 4’26”
06 – intro (TLH) 1’00”
07 – Tower song (TLH) 4’21”
08 – intro the snake song (TLH) 1’41”
09 – The snake song (TLH) 4’43” (minor clips between 3’05” and 3’23”)
10 – intro RD – Come Tomorrow (RD) 4’26”
11 – Rex’s Blues (RD) 3’18”
12 – Loretta (RD) 3’11”
13 – Intro white freightliner blues 1’52”
14 – White freightliner blues (All) 5’27” (minor clips at 1’30”-1’40”, 4’38”-4’42”, 4’46”-4’49”)

— break —

RICHARD DOBSON SET

15 – Hello blue bird 3’34”
16 – The fairest outlaw 4’30”
17 – Never say never 2’49”
18 – Houston town (Song for my parents) 3’43”
19 – Intro to border town 0’55”
20 – Border town 4’30”

CD 2 RICHARD DOBSON SET (suite)

21 – intro useful girl who could sew 1’09”
22 – useful girl who could sew 3’39”
23 – Talk about Montana Rose
& talk about TVZ & Steve Earle 1’25”
24 – Wabbash canonball 3’19”
25 – Talk CDs & books for sale 0’49”
26 – On thistledown wind 4’00”
27 – Meeting TVZ-Intro Snowin’on Raton 0’56”
28 – Snowin’ on Raton 4’05”
29 – Down on Trinity river 3’21”
30 – Hard work talkin’ blues 3’38”
31 – Dollar Bill Blues 2’20”
32 – Talk about TVZ, his madness & beer 1’51”
33 – Pancho & Lefty 2’51”
34 – Two girls 3’45”
35 – Born in east Texas (suited me) 1’45” (clipped at 1’45”)
36 – Sailin’ 4’23”
37 – Don’t take it too bad 3’28”
38 – Big river (J.Cash) 2’49” (minor clips between 1’30 and 1’50”)
39 – Forever, for always, for certain 3’30
40 – Shenandoah (wide Missouri) 6’00”
41 – Thanks & Parispal’s announcement 1’32”

Total Time : 2h14’56”

Townes Van Zandt – Austin, TX (01/17/95)

TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Live on Solo Sessions
Austin Music Network Ch 15 Austin Tx cable
Austin, TX January 17, 1995

I was the director for this. What a pleasure to work with this man, and I am honored to share it with you.

Great soundboard mix done for video

01) Marie
02) Katie Belle Blue
03) Blaze’s Blues
04) The Hole
05) Lover’s Lullaby
06) A Song For
07) Ballad Of Ira Hayes
08) Two Girls
09) Dollar Bill Blues Intro
10) Dollar Bill Blues
11) Goin’ Down To Memphis
12) Flyin’ Shoes Intro
13) Flyin’ Shoes
14) The Catfish Song

TRT 52:55

Townes Van Zandt – Down Home and Abroad

Townes Van Zandt ‎
Down Home And Abroad
Label: Floating World ‎– FLOATD6377 (Retroworld) (CD)
Released: 2018



Tracklist:

CD1

The Down Home – Johnson City, TN – April 18 1985

  1. Intro
  2. Dollar Bill Blues
  3. Pancho And Lefty
  4. Buckskin Stallion Blues
  5. No Place To Fall
  6. Talking Thunderbird Blues
  7. Mr. Gold And Mr. Mud
  8. If I Needed You
  9. Snowing On Raton
  10. To Live Is To Fly
  11. Don’t You Take It Too Bad
  12. Snake Mountain Blues
  13. Rake
  14. Fraternity Blues
  15. Colorado Girl -> Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues -> Colorado Girl

CD2

The Tavastia – Helsinki, Finland – June 18th 1993

  1. Dollar Bill Blues
  2. Pancho And Lefty
  3. Brand New Companion
  4. Two Girls
  5. Lungs
  6. Rex’s Blues
  7. Nothin’
  8. A Song For
  9. Kathleen
  10. Coo Coo
  11. Brother Flower
  12. If I Needed You
  13. Pinball Machine (1st Verse)
  14. Tecumseh Valley
  15. Flyin’ Shoes
  16. Don’t You Take It Too Bad

Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 805772637726

Notes:
Townes 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 1970s, he lived in a simple shack without electricity or a phone. He suffered from a series of drug addictions, alcoholism, and was given a psychiatric diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Van Zandt died on New Years Day 1997 from health problems stemming from years of substance abuse. A revival of interest in Van Zandt occurred in the 2000s when two books, a documentary film (Be Here to Love Me), and numerous magazine articles about the singer were written

This two CD set features two live shows recorded in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1985 and Helsinki, Finland in 1993.

Townes Van Zandt – Munich, Germany (11/27/94)

Townes van Zandt
Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
November 27, 1994

01 Going Down To Memphis
02 Intro to
03 Katie Belle Blue
04 Blaze’s Blues
05 Joke: “Three Shots Of Gin”
06 Two Girls
07 Introduction of Kurti
08 At My Window ( officially released, omitted)
09 To Live Is To Fly
10 Loretta
11 The Hole
12 No Place To Fall
13 Outro

Townes is acompanied by Ostbahn Kurti (“Easttrain Kurt”) after 20 minutes.

Re-broadcast by german radio station (Bayerischer Rundfunk) from Dec 28, 2004.
TLineage: ADR (Astra Digital Radio) MPEG1 Layer 2, 192 kbps, 48 kHz -> SPDIF -> Happy hard disk (WAV) -> Cut, normalized, resampled to 44100 Hz -> happy happy hard disk -> FLAC -> Dutch Lowlands -> ….

Townes Van Zandt – Munich, Germany (11/21/94)

Townes Van Zandt
Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
1994-11-21

01 intro
02 Dollar Bill Blues
03 Pancho and Lefty
04 Going Down To Memphis
05 Intro – Katie Belle Blue
06 Blaze’s Blues
07 Joke
08 Two Girls
09 At My Window (with Kurt Ostbahn)
10 To Live is to Fly
11 Loretta
12 The Hole
13 No Place to Fall
14 Outro
15 A Song For *
16 White Freightliner Blues *
17 For The Sake Of The Song *

  • from a different recording of this show: Nachtsession Feedback on Bavarian Radio BR2, 2004-03-07

FM (analog cable) – CD-R — Traders little helper
This version comes from a re-broadcast Dec 28, 2004 and is more complete than previous ones.