Decades after his death, Townes Van Zandt is best known as a gifted singer / songwriter. He is also remembered as someone who had the accident on his butt, not least because of his self-destructive life course. Sometimes Van Zandt just had bad luck. His record company went bankrupt in 1974, leaving an album he had recorded in Nashville earlier that year on the shelf. Those Nashville Sessions were
… finally released in 1993, four years before Townes' death. This re-release shows once again what a gifted songwriter Van Zandt was. The structure of the songs is bare and simple, arrangements are only used sparingly but always effectively. Even in the light-hearted moments, such as the love song Loretta, the blues resounds in Van Zandt's voice, who lived the tough life he sang about. (PdK)more