Townes Van Zandt, Rear View Mirror

TVZRVM

TVZRVM

Townes Van Zandt, Rear View Mirror – This is a great live album of Townes Van Zandt playing 17 of his songs live. There’s no information about when or where these songs were recorded, but it’s clearly a small club, and may be as recent as 1993, when the original album was released. The songs are great, and are mainly Townes’ voice and guitar, sometimes a second guitar, sometimes a fiddle. Townes never misses a note, which may mean he was nearly sober when he recorded this. All of the songs are fantastic, but maybe the most surprising one is the opener, “Pancho And Lefty”, his most famous song, done here with a bit of fiddle. It sounds great without the Mexican horns.

Comments are closed.