September 23, 2004
New film captures heartbreaking life of heartbreaking songwriter
Live at Union Chapel, London, England
You could go broke and mad navigating the many live releases from the Texas Dylan's final years. But in this 1994 show, on two CDs, the highs -- the loner's yearning in "If I Needed You"; the detailed warfare of the card game in "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold"; the gripping darkness in "The Hole" -- far out...
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Texas singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt never gained much more than a long-lasting cult follow-ing for his well-crafted, mildly countryish folk pop, but his best record, Our Mother, the Mountain, remains powerful -- and he deserves a revival. He hasn't the fine voice that Eric Andersen had circa Andersen's classic Blue River (1972), but he shares some of the same sensibility -- he writes well...
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