The late, great Townes Van Zandt
(Music)

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Published
Los Angeles, CA : Omnivore Recordings, [2013], ℗1972.
Format
Music
Status
Sequim - Compact Disc
FOLKROC VAN_ZAN LATE_GR
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Published
Los Angeles, CA : Omnivore Recordings, [2013], ℗1972.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
00816651011094, 816651011094

Notes

General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Originally released in 1972.
General Note
Compact disc.
Creation/Production Credits
Produced by Jack Clement.
Participants/Performers
Performed by Townes Van Zandt ; with assisting musicians.
Date/Time and Place of Event
Recorded at Jack Clement Studios, Nashville, Tenn.
Description
The final album of Van Zandt's early period, 1973's LATE GREAT is one of his most accomplished efforts, both in terms of production and songwriting. It builds on HIGH, LOW AND IN BETWEEN's arrangement and song structure advances the way REVOLVER built on RUBBER SOUL. It features Van Zandt's first recording of other writers' work (including his pal Guy Clark's transcendent "Don't Let the Sunshine Fool Ya" and Hank Williams' classic "Honky Tonkin'"), but Townes' own writing was rarely sharper. The complex outlaw narrative "Pancho & Lefty" and the beautifully spare ballad "If I Needed You" are probably his two best-loved and most widely covered songs. "The Silver Ships of Andilar" is an ominous, timeless sea-faring tale marked by both its literacy and adventurous orchestration. Townes' trademark folk-country style is well represented on the genial, wise "No Lonesome Tune" and the ironic faux-Gospel "Heavenly Houseboat Blues."