Townes Van Zandt

jesusarenque · #1 03-04-2005, 01:16 AM

What is TVZ's best song?

nothumb · #2 03-04-2005, 01:41 AM

Tecumseh Valley
Pancho and Lefty
Dead Flowers

Basically a three way tie depending on my mood

NT

InchoateHand · #3 03-04-2005, 01:46 AM

Dead Flowers, though the others get honorable mentions. My mood must always suck.

whiskeytown · #4 03-04-2005, 03:51 AM

waiting around to die

close 2nd is Lungs

RB

crosse91 · #5 03-04-2005, 03:57 AM

amazing that this was his 1st song....

whiskeytown · #6 03-04-2005, 07:14 AM

actually, I've got the early demos he did back in 66 - some of those songs are pretty good too - I think waiting aroudn to die was his first serious song he did for an album, but some of those demos/early yrs. songs were good too -

I really liked that album...never sounded younger or more fulla spit and vinegar....sorta of a hippie vibe to some of the songs too - the 1966 influence.

RB

David Steele · #7 03-04-2005, 10:35 AM

I will go with: No Place to Fall

My favorite one with gambling is content is
Rex's Blues
(If I had a nickle I'd find a game
If I won a dollar I'd make it rain
If it rained an ocean I'd drink it dry
Lay me down dissatisfied.... )

close are:

Tecumseh Valley
For the Sake of the Song

Maybe more useful then this is that the best CD is
Live At the Old Quarter ( if you can get it )
There are a lot of fairly junky studio releases but Live
has almost everything you want done in great atmosphere at
the time his voice was best.

D.

benfranklin · #8 03-04-2005, 03:13 PM

Pancho & Lefty

The rest of the Top Five (not in order):
For the Sake of the Song
To Live Is to Fly
No Place to Fall
Tecumseh Valley

SenecaJim · #9 03-04-2005, 03:29 PM

Waiting around to die. And, Dead Flowers is not townes's, it's a stones song ,,jagger/richards.