You got a way with words

I came here to write the same. Love and respect my fellow bird.

Yes

Yes, he surely was. Was born and is buried not far away around Fort Worth. I figured I'd go play him some of his songs someday.

Yes

As a non american, yes.

Up there with the greats for sure

Over the last few years, I've begun discovering how deeply this vien of country music can be mined. These songwriter/singers literally saved me from the insanity I was slipping into as I lost my ability to take the stress and the afwful distress of caring for my wife, as she went through the stages of early-onset dementia. It seems I have a breaking point, and this music kept me in the world when, and after I reached it. I've often wondered how the very American musical and lyrical language of country music translates to other places and cultures who don't have the lifetime of cultural and artistic references that automatically come to mind with a certain turn of phrase or a particular part of the tune. It's so automatic for me when I hear a lot of it. But, I've seen enough people from Sweden, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia, and so many more I'm forgetting, who write comments, like yours, telling of the deep meaning the songs and music hold for them also. These musicians seem to have stripped enough away, until the rawest meaning and emotion is left. And that, many humans, if not most, can understand and to which they can relate. It's beautiful how powerful it is.

It feels like it . But it's a retelling of Don Juan.

Yeah it's crazy to know that he wrote this song as a YOUNG man. He had such an innate feel for the human experience, a profound, clairvoyant, prophetic understanding of the arc of human life. Like he was born with the end and the beginning and the middle all welling up at the same time, and a gift to shape it with words. This is a poet.

Agreed

+Guy Blackburn yep

+Guy Blackburn While other people just write words Townes paints pictures with emotions and feelings that somehow form words.

so well said, so true!

Totally agree

And we get to live in a world where he can hear both Dylan and Townes. And so many more too: Hank, Leonard Cohen...

Agreed. Bob Dylan may have pioneered the resurgence of poetic songwriting in America but there has never been a greater song writer than TVZ. He's not only a great emotional songwriter but also a master poet. When I discovered him I spend like 4 days just listening to his music. I did not have that experience with Dylan lol

It's perfection. Retelling of Don Juan but so poetic. The goat

Yes this is an early song. It's so amazing.

John Turner what dvd mate?

Interesting take

I would say he didn't last long because of his preoccupation with death. Either way, the angels were with him.

Look up his other track a song for..I daresay it tops this

Try 74, and a woman who surely did like to tear it up.

Yet he was 25 when he wrote it. It isn’t the length of the journey but the path taken.

+Achim Will Where can I get the DVD?

+bmacnaughton www.amazon.com/Townes-Van-Zandt-Houston-Private/dp/B00065U0QI

Authentic and true

Not as great as this song,rake is a masterpiece

Both were affected by bypolar disorder.

+Joeyland Dylan still writing.

+Joeyland Dawes

+Joeyland soundcloud.com/franzblackbird/endless-possibilities

+Luis Batista nice

Look up the mountain goats they're brilliant

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what are you talking about? It repeats the same progression through the whole song.

@@rjmoney9 no, indeed similar but significant differences in each section. The entire Dylan song is Aeolian, the Van Zandt song is divided into Aoelian verse, but the melody in the choruses is actually Dorian, which has an entirely different musical effect. Both sections use different chord progressions. That’s just musical fact.