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Track List
01) Announcement
02) Pancho & Lefty
03) Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold
04) Don't You Take It Too Bad
05) Two Girls
06) Fraternity Blues
07) If I Needed You
08) Brand New Companion
09) White Freight Liner Blues
10) To Live Is to Fly
11) She Came and She Touched Me
12) Talking Thunderbird Blues
13) Rex's Blues
14) Nine Pound Hammer
Cd 2
01) For the Sake of the Song
02) Chauffeur's Blues
03) No Place to Fall
04) Loretta
05) Kathleen
06) Why She's Acting This Way
07) Cocaine Blues
08) Who Do You Love
09) Tower Song
10) Waiting 'Round to Die
11) Tecumseh Valley
12) Lungs
13) Only Him or Me
01) Announcement
02) Pancho & Lefty
03) Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold
04) Don't You Take It Too Bad
05) Two Girls
06) Fraternity Blues
07) If I Needed You
08) Brand New Companion
09) White Freight Liner Blues
10) To Live Is to Fly
11) She Came and She Touched Me
12) Talking Thunderbird Blues
13) Rex's Blues
14) Nine Pound Hammer
Cd 2
01) For the Sake of the Song
02) Chauffeur's Blues
03) No Place to Fall
04) Loretta
05) Kathleen
06) Why She's Acting This Way
07) Cocaine Blues
08) Who Do You Love
09) Tower Song
10) Waiting 'Round to Die
11) Tecumseh Valley
12) Lungs
13) Only Him or Me
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First Released
1977
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Townes Van Zandt is better regarded as a songwriter than as a performer, and not without reason -- he was a peerless lyricist with a singular ability to capture the landscape of the heart and soul in words, but while he was a fine singer he wasn't exceptional, and the ravages of alcohol, tobacco and drugs took a fearsome toll on his voice in his last years. But Van Zandt could work magic in front of an audience under the right circumstances, and while a wealth of live recordings of Van Zandt have emerged since his passing on the first day of 1997, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas ranks with the very best of his concert albums. Live at the Old Quarter is simple and spare, capturing Van Zandt in a 1973 solo performance at a Houston saloon with just his acoustic guitar for company, and the engineering ably captures the ambience of the room, with the audience clearly caught up in the spell of these songs. The set features 26 songs, all originals except for covers of "Cocaine Blues," "Nine Pound Hammer," and "Who Do You Love," and Van Zandt brigs these tunes to life with an easy grace that's a striking complement to the emotional gravity of his lyrics, though he also gives his lighter side an airing here, occasionally cracking jokes and offering a pair of funny talking blues numbers, "Talking Thunderbird Blues" and "Fraternity Blues." If the renditions of "Pancho & Lefty," "If I Needed You," "Rex's Blues," "For the Sake of the Song," and "Tecumseh Valley" aren't quite definitive, they're beautiful and affecting, and thanks to the sharp performances, on-point vocals, and superb set list, this is a superior document of Townes Van Zandt on-stage, and is a fine introduction to his body of work.
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Townes Van Zandt is better regarded as a songwriter than as a performer, and not without reason -- he was a peerless lyricist with a singular ability to capture the landscape of the heart and soul in words, but while he was a fine singer he wasn't exceptional, and the ravages of alcohol, tobacco and drugs took a fearsome toll on his voice in his last years. But Van Zandt could work magic in front of an audience under the right circumstances, and while a wealth of live recordings of Van Zandt have emerged since his passing on the first day of 1997, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas ranks with the very best of his concert albums. Live at the Old Quarter is simple and spare, capturing Van Zandt in a 1973 solo performance at a Houston saloon with just his acoustic guitar for company, and the engineering ably captures the ambience of the room, with the audience clearly caught up in the spell of these songs. The set features 26 songs, all originals except for covers of "Cocaine Blues," "Nine Pound Hammer," and "Who Do You Love," and Van Zandt brigs these tunes to life with an easy grace that's a striking complement to the emotional gravity of his lyrics, though he also gives his lighter side an airing here, occasionally cracking jokes and offering a pair of funny talking blues numbers, "Talking Thunderbird Blues" and "Fraternity Blues." If the renditions of "Pancho & Lefty," "If I Needed You," "Rex's Blues," "For the Sake of the Song," and "Tecumseh Valley" aren't quite definitive, they're beautiful and affecting, and thanks to the sharp performances, on-point vocals, and superb set list, this is a superior document of Townes Van Zandt on-stage, and is a fine introduction to his body of work.
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