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if you're a TVZ fan, you've probably seen his performances of Waiting Round to Die and Pancho and Lefty from this documentary, but this is the other standout performance in the film imo. haven't found a version of this song that touches Crowell's.
Mar 18, 2024
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Excellent 1976 cinema verite style documentary capturing performances and musings from the likes of Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Steve Young, etc. whole thing is kind of a hangout vibe, essential viewing if you’re interested in outlaw country at all
Jan 25, 2024
This is the third Townes album I have listened to, and I think my favorite so far !! It’s a live album recorded in the late 70s. Townes is a songwriter who seldom wastes a word, and his storytelling feels both personal and mythical at once. He weaves his own life into both the straighforward ballads, and the outlaw country character portraits. Waiting Around to Die has brought me to tears on more than one occasion. My favorite song on the album at the moment is White Freight Liner Blues, a candid track about his struggles with heroin, and being sadenned to see his friends ailed by the same affliction. Townes is truly one of the great American songwriters.
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A perfect, poetic epic from one of our best songwriters, the capstone of the incredible album Time (The Revelator). Welch weaves an emotionally devastating depiction of longing and loss out of classic Americana, snippets of country music history, and Biblical references. Certain verses read as a eulogy for classic, outlaw country culture, others are just abstract imagery.
Connected in my mind with Dylan's epic Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (and Isis), but also with Joni Mitchell's Coyote, maybe because of these two hungover and ruminative diner scenes:
Coyote's in the coffee shop.
He's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs.
He picks up my scent on his fingers.
While he's watching the waitresses' legs.
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Sunday morning at the diner
Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
I watched the waitress for a thousand years
Saw a wheel inside a wheel, heard a call within a call
I dreamed a highway back to you
The actual recording is a miracle, one live 14-minute take with no overdubs, Dave Rawlings (her husband) improv-ing along. The sound itself is perfect.
Time (The Revelator) also has Revelator and Everything Is Free, two other all-time classics of American music. Can't recommend it enough!
Feb 6, 2024
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its the best way to consume media. DONT show me a trailer DONT let me read the flap on the inside of the novel DONT tell me there’s even an alien in it. Dont tell me what it’s about just be like “it’s good you should check it out”
Jan 20, 2024
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just remembered you can do this. hell yeah.
Feb 22, 2024
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but god….i want to do this in a garage so bad….
Feb 7, 2024