Townes Van Zandt

Classic Clips: Townes Van Zandt “Waiting Around to Die” from Heartworn Highways (1981)

January 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

This week’s clip comes from the 1981 documentary ‘Heartworn Highways‘ by James Szalapski. The documentary focuses on early footage of folk and country musicians. It includes artists Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan […]

Essentials: The top 10 Townes Van Zandt songs

November 4, 2021 Tim Newby 3

Townes Van Zandt is one of the most criminally overlooked songwriters of the last fifty years. His life in a snapshot is simple and scary. Born to a wealthy Texas family, he left to pursue music, […]

A Night To Remember: Townes Van Zandt – The Hop & Grape, Manchester, December 9th 1994

November 2, 2021 Clint West 1

A rambling, shambling Townes talks a lot, tells long jokes and occasionally sings a song. You don’t always get to see your heroes, or sometimes they become your heroes too late. I never got to see […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Townes Van Zandt “Dead Flowers”

April 19, 2021 Harold Hogan 0

This week we go from one guitar playing Van Zandt to another. From “Badlands“, featuring the great Steven Van Zandt, to “Dead Flowers” by Townes Van Zandt. ‘Dead Flowers‘ is a cover of The Rolling Stones’ […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Number 9 – Townes Van Zandt “Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas”

March 9, 2021 Clint West 3

Welcome to Day Two of AUK’s rundown of the top 10 americana albums ever. The albums have been chosen through the combined wisdom of our writers and as we reach Number 9, it won’t be giving […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers