Thursday
June 13 2013 9:00PM -- doors at
8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $10 Benefit for Music Maker Relief
Foundation... "For
the Sake Of A Song:
A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt" featuring... Chuck
Prophet &
Patrick Winningham
Tecumseh Valley + Dollar Bill Blues + Who Do you Love + White Freight
Liner Sweet Chariot For the
Sake of A Song + I'll Be Here In the Morning Gypsy
Moonlight Band Lungs, Fare Thee Well
Carousel + The Highway Kind Minor
Kingdom To Live Is To Fly,
Where I Lead Me, Be Here to Love Me Jif & Lynn B. Johnson from
Hammerdown Turpentine
Our Mother the Mountain, Waitin' Round To Die Andrew
Blair Rex's Blues At my
Window Mark Joseph & The Missing
Pieces Dead
Flowers + Dirty Old Town + 1 more Buckeye
Knoll Pancho &
Lefty + If I Needed You Noelle Cahill ---
Townes Van Zandt John Townes Van Zandt, best known
as Townes Van Zandt, was an American singer-songwriter consider by many
as America's greatest songwriter ever. Many of his songs, including "If
I Needed You," "To Live is to Fly," and "No Place to Fall" are
considered standards of their genre.
While alive, Van Zandt had
a small and devoted fanbase, but he never had a successful album or
single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print. In
1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularized it, Willie
Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song "Pancho and Lefty," scoring a
number one hit on the Billboard country music charts. Despite
achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various
dive bars, often living in cheap motel rooms, backwoods cabins, and on
friends' couches. Van Zandt was notorious for his drug addictions,
alcoholism, and his tendency to tell tall tales. When young, he was
diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and insulin shock therapy erased much
of his long-term memory.
Van Zandt died on New Year's Day 1997
from health problems stemming from years of substance abuse. The 2000s
saw a resurgence of interest in Van Zandt. During the decade, two
books, a documentary film, and a number of magazine articles about the
singer were created. Van Zandt's music has been covered by such notable
and varied musicians as Bob Dylan, Norah Jones, Lyle Lovett, Steve
Earle, Cowboy Junkies, Andrew Bird, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, Gillian
Welch, and Devendra Banhart.
Townes Van Zandt -
Pancho & Lefty 1993 TV Performance
