Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song [New Vinyl LP]

Description: Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song [New Vinyl LP] Artist: Townes Van Zandt Title: For the Sake of the Song Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Country UPC: 767981108711 Release Date: 2012 Record Label: Fat Possum Records Album Tracks1. For the Sake of the Song2. Tecumseh Valley3. Many a Fine Lady4. Quick Silver Daydreams of Maria5. Waitin' Around to Die6. I'll Be There in the Morning7. Sad Cinderella8. The Velvet Voices9. Talkin' Karate Blues10. All Your Young Servants11. Sixteen Summer, Fifteen Falls Townes Van Zandt wrote songs with an uncommon grace and poetic clarity, and he sang them with a voice that was at once straightforward, eloquent, and mindful of the arid beauty of his images. A decade after Van Zandt released his first album, there would be dozens of singer/songwriters following his example, but he was a rather unusual commodity when for the Sake of the Song was released in 1968, and the album's production and arrangements occasionally suggest that Jack Clement and Jim Malloy didn't always know what to make of what he brought them. The 11 songs on Van Zandt's debut are all fine stuff (even the throwaway novelty Talkin' Karate Blues at least brings a chuckle), and the emotional force with which Van Zandt delivers (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria, Tecumseh Valley, and the title tune belies the fact this was his first album. But on several tracks Clement and Malloy attempt to match the elusive mystery of Van Zandt's music with overblown accompaniment and deeply echoey recording, especially the cheesy chorus on the Velvet Voices, the clichéd Western accompaniment of I'll Be Here in the Morning, the tinkling keyboards on Sad Cinderella, and the rattling percussion of Waitin' Around to Die. In spite of the occasionally misguided production, for the Sake of the Song remains a classic debut. These songs make clear that Van Zandt's genius was already fully formed, and as both a composer and a performer he was a man of rare gifts; even when the backing threatens to drown him out, his gifts come shining through, and for the Sake of the Song was an auspicious debut offering from a talent of the first order.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Location: Shepherdsville, Kentucky

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