Given an acquaintance with Texas singer-songwriters that goes back to the early seventies and Jerry Jeff Walker’s Viva Terlingua, I’ve been aware of Townes Van Zandt for close to thirty years, but there are some things you don’t quite get around to exploring in a timely manner. Over the years I’ve picked up a fair sample of Townes in unofficial settings, but it’s time to start exploring the old extensive discography…
Studio albums:
1968 For the Sake of the Song
1969 Our Mother the Mountain Townes Van Zandt
1971 Delta Momma Blues
1972 High, Low and in Between The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
1978 Flyin' Shoes
1987 At My Window
1993 The Nashville Sessions (aborted Seven Come Eleven album, 1972)
1994 No Deeper Blue
1996 Riding The Range (two songs: Riding The Range and Dirty Old Town)
1999 A Far Cry From Dead (later-life studio guitar and vocal recordings posthumously overdubbed)
2001 Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings
2003 In the Beginning (studio demos from 1966)
Live albums:
1977 Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (recorded July 1973)
1989 Live and Obscure (recorded in 1985)
1991 Rain on a Conga Drum: Live in Berlin (recorded October 1990)
1993 Roadsongs
Rear View Mirror (recorded live Oklahoma, 1979)
1996 Abnormal (reissued in 1998 with 3 tracks replaced)
1997 The Highway Kind
Documentary
Last Rights (alternative version of Documentary)