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 ...

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 was famously covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. A great song has many lives, especially when it gets recorded by ...

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 ...

Country music courses through his DNA; his dad is outlaw'ish, outspoken country legend Steve Earle, and he was named after songwriter Townes Van Zandt. But Earle isn’t resting on ...

One of Austin’s oldest venues, the Hole in the Wall opened in 1974 and enjoyed an early run as a folkie hangout, serving as a favorite stage for Townes Van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, and Blaze Foley.

The seeds in Townes Van Zandt’s hand are ground. What cannot be remembered can be remembered, the seeds are pulverized and bitterly soaked in beer. Glug glug is a sound, left in the throat by the ...

W henever you see Steven Van Zandt on stage with the E Street Band, he looks like he’s having the greatest time it is possible to have in showbusiness, dressed like a wild rock ’n’ roll ...