The well-worn grave marker in a remote cemetery near Eagle Mountain Lake draws thousands of visitors. They leave liquor, or cigarettes, or charcoal or crayons from gravestone rubbings. “To Live’s To ...
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’s ...
Townes Van Zandt's name conjures tales of drug and alcohol abuse, gambling, rambling and mental illness. That mythic life sometimes overshadows his music, which was often as perfect as his life was ...
Townes Van Zandt and Stevie Ray Vaughan died young. Van Zandt at 52 and Vaughan at 35, ages that added together give them the lifespan of one very well-seasoned blues player. Vaughan kicked his ...
Most singer-songwriters spend their entire career seeking out a truth worth writing about. For Townes Van Zandt, that truth seeped right out of his drug-laced veins and into his prolific musical ...
Early in Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, Margaret Brown‘s seminal 2004 documentary on the Texas songwriter, Van Zandt’s first wife, Fran Petters, recalls a doctor’s note he received ...
If you’re not familiar with Townes Van Zandt, let me catch you up. Often considered the best singer-songwriter to come out of Texas, Van Zandt’s material has been covered by the veritable royalty of ...
Screaming Females at La Zona Rosa, 10/10/2012 (more by Tim Griffin) Screaming Females had to cancel tour dates because Marisa has been sick, but she toughed it out and managed to finish off their TX ...