“Why do you write only said songs?” someone once asked the legendary Townes Van Zandt.
“Well…, many of the songs…, they aren’t sad. They’re hopeless,” he affirmed.
If you’re going to sing and play the blues, you might as well be the best that you can be. Maybe that’s why Townes Van Zandt is revered as a Texas Bluesman.
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The Night They Drove ‘Ol Dixie down is one of the best songs, if not the best song, of all time.
When I was growing up and attending Thomas Jefferson High School in the late 70’s, we listened to The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and The Grateful Dead almost exclusively. There was a little room any […]
See the balcony in the upper left hand corner of the picture below, right above the Carnegie Deli canopy?This balcony is connected to the rent-stabilized two-room apartment at 55th & 7th that I called home–when I lived in New York City in the late eighties. It was an annex of the old Hotel Woodward. Apartment […]