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

Townes Van Zandt wrote about fading relationships as well as any songwriter. The 1971 track "Tower Song" stands as one of his best weepers.

Today, we look at Townes Van Zandt's classic 'Pancho and Lefty,' which ... Ended up in Lefty's mouth/The day they laid poor Pancho low/Lefty split for Ohio/Where he got the bread to go/There ...

In 1972, the 28-year-old Texan prodigy Townes Van Zandt ... in-progress as, say, Van Zandt’s “Nebraska”: certainly, the songs are good enough. Some, indeed, rank high among his finest.

Steve Earle’s apprenticeship with Texan legend Townes Van Zandt was never remotely conventional. An inveterate boozer, Van Zandt once had Earle tie him to a tree in the addled notion that it ...