Today, we look at Townes Van Zandt's classic 'Pancho and Lefty,' which was famously covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. A great song has many lives, especially when it gets recorded by ...

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 ...

In 1972, the 28-year-old Texan prodigy Townes Van Zandt had released his sixth studio album in five productive years, The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. It was arguably his best album to that point ...

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 ...