Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The well-worn grave marker in a remote cemetery near Eagle Mountain Lake draws thousands of visitors. They leave liquor, or ...
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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’s ...
On this day in 1997, singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt died in his Smyrna, Tennessee home at the age of 52. Van Zandt was among a group of elite Texas troubadours that included Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff ...
In the 1970s, the name Townes Van Zandt had a magical pull in Houston. The man with the long, thin face and well-worn voice wrote stories of loners, lovers and misfits in song. Van Zandt died of a ...
Today would have been Townes Van Zandt’s 72nd birthday. The iconic singer-songwriter was born March 7, 1944, in Fort Worth, Texas. He died Jan. 1, 1997 from heart problems as a result of years of ...
Not all that long ago, Rocks Off saw some comment on a Facebook thread where a guy claiming to be a poet said he didn’t think Townes van Zandt was the great poet/lyricist so many seem to think. His ...
Songwriter Guy Clark is far too eloquent a wordsmith to hang up the phone with a simple “No comment.” Instead, he hung up from his Nashville home with six words: “That’s none of my damn business.” As ...
On Jan. 1, 1997, the romance of tragedy that possessed Townes Van Zandt, both in song and in being, retreated in its wrenching final act. Having lived multiple lives worth of suffering, making travel ...
The well-worn grave marker in a remote cemetery near Eagle Mountain Lake draws thousands of visitors. They leave liquor, or cigarettes, or charcoal or crayons from gravestone rubbings. “To Live’s To ...
Townes Van Zandt, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Aaron Barker and Bob Morrison have been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jason Aldean, ‘The Only Way I Know’ Hits No. 1; George Jones Plans ...
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