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Loretta by Townes Van Zandt and its million covers.
Posted on 11/6/16 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 11/6/16 at 3:06 pm
I already feel as though I've cheated the world by really finding John Prine a couple years ago. Well his YouTube videos lead you to more greatness.
Loretta is incredible, and the versions of it are awesome. Steve Earl to Norah Jones have done this song. Hicks to Hipsters all cover it. I don't know how I missed these songs through my youth and my 20's but I am glad I did.
Any of you discover true greatness in music this late? I am 43 and just don't see how I never got exposed to this stuff.
Loretta is incredible, and the versions of it are awesome. Steve Earl to Norah Jones have done this song. Hicks to Hipsters all cover it. I don't know how I missed these songs through my youth and my 20's but I am glad I did.
Any of you discover true greatness in music this late? I am 43 and just don't see how I never got exposed to this stuff.
Posted on 11/6/16 at 11:26 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I pulled up to a bar one night with Townes playing in my truck. Evidently this hipster heard it, and said he loved him because he was so raw and truthful. I politely told him to "frick off". PBR drinking mother frickers
Posted on 11/6/16 at 11:35 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I discovered TVZ as a teenager by falling in love with his version of "Dead Flowers" in The Big Lebowski. Probably never would have heard of him if not for that movie.
Posted on 11/7/16 at 5:29 am to LSU alum wannabe
I first heard Loretta (John Prine cover) when this album came out: Poet - Tribute to TVZ
Every track on it is great.
Every track on it is great.
Posted on 11/7/16 at 7:52 am to RabidTiger
I found out about TVZ through Dax Riggs covering "Lungs"
Posted on 11/7/16 at 9:09 am to PowerTool
I heard the Prine version on the tribute album. That's a fairly recent album? Sounds like it is post surgery John Prine.
Posted on 11/7/16 at 9:11 am to LSU alum wannabe
It sounds like the type of sing along song my friends and I would have loved and wailed drunkenly at any bar or to any bartender or waitress we found attractive but rough in 1992-2000.
Posted on 11/7/16 at 12:19 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Heard him in my teens. The true essence of what country-folk music should be. The man "paid his dues" and and his music had soul.
Posted on 11/7/16 at 6:54 pm to LSU alum wannabe
quote:
I heard the Prine version on the tribute album. That's a fairly recent album? Sounds like it is post surgery John Prine.
Weirdly enough the release date is 9/11/2001. So yes, it is after Prine's surgery. But he does a great version of Loretta on it.
But back to 9/11 - that is an odd coincidence because Tower Song always makes me think of 9/11. And I had no idea until today that was was the release date.
quote:
You built your tower strong and tall
Can't you see it's got to fall some day?
I love Townes' lyrics. He pulls no punches at all, except when he's trying to make you think. A lot of times he's playing word/idea games and you'd better pay attention.
"When the wind don't blow in Amarillo, and the moon along the Gunnison don't rise"
"You're as soft as glass, and I'm a gentle man"
"They only left him hang around - out of kindness I suppose"
There isn't a song writer I like better. Prine isn't far behind.
OK - a couple of videos from the Cowboy Junkies tribute. Townes toured with them near his end.
Lungs
To Live's to Fly
This post was edited on 11/7/16 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 11/7/16 at 9:04 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Posted on 11/8/16 at 4:27 pm to Tigris
I wish late 1970's John Prine did the song. Of course I'm not sure when the song was written.
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