Townes Van Zandt news

Townes Van Zandt shares a story of how he forced himself to write "Pancho and Lefty" (and how he got out of a traffic ticket the next day).

A look at the Townes Van Zandt and how he turned his traumatic upbringing into his very first serious song, 'Waiting around to die'.

The Lemonheads have shared two new songs from their upcoming album Love Chant: "Deep End" and a cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Sad Cinderella." ...

Luminaries including Jerry Jeff Walker, Townes Van Zandt and Janis Joplin played at the venue, which closed in the mid-1970s.

Evan Dando, the only permanent member of fuzz-pop institution the Lemonheads, was one of the great lovable wastrels of the ’90s alt-rock boom. He’s had a bumpy ride over the decades. The last time we ...

Townes Van Zandt’s lyrical skills rank among the very best. And we’re not limiting that to just those in his genre, which could be roughly characterized as Americana. We’re saying that Van ...

Townes Van Zandt spent much of his last decade revisiting the masterful odes to loss, melancholy and America's frontier history he'd etched in his earlier career. Bloody vendettas ("The Hole ...

Townes Van Zandt wrote some real tear-jerkers, but this track has to be the saddest (or at least close to saddest) song in his discography.

Townes Van Zandt lived the life of both an 18th-century byronic hero and a 19th-century cowboy. He was tragically brilliant, broken, and lost too soon. However, everything tragic about Van Zandt ...

It is a rather redundant and undeniable truth that Bob Dylan‘s lyrics are among the most influential of all time. However, take his lyrics out of the equation, and one is still left with a highly ...

After opening for Townes Van Zandt in 1968, Emmylou Harris said she was "stunned" after seeing the legend perform for the first time.