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"Other people locked themselves away and hid from their demons. Townes flung open his door and said, 'Come on in.'" So writes Harold Eggers, Townes Van Zandt's longtime road manager and producer, in My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage – a gripping memoir revealing the inner core of an enigmatic troubadour, whose deeply poetic music was a source of inspiration and healing for millions but was for himself a torment struggling for dominance among myriad personal demons.
Townes Van Zandt often stated that his main musical mission was to "write the perfect song that would save someone's life." However, his life was a work in progress he was constantly struggling to shape and comprehend. Eggers says of his close friend and business partner that "like the master song craftsman he was, he was never truly satisfied with the final product but always kept giving it one more shot, one extra tweak, one last effort."
A vivid, firsthand account exploring the source of the singer's prodigious talent, widespread influence, and relentless path toward self-destruction, My Years with Townes Van Zandt presents the truth of that all-consuming artistic journey told by a close friend watching it unfold.
Townes Van Zandt often stated that his main musical mission was to "write the perfect song that would save someone's life." However, his life was a work in progress he was constantly struggling to shape and comprehend. Eggers says of his close friend and business partner that "like the master song craftsman he was, he was never truly satisfied with the final product but always kept giving it one more shot, one extra tweak, one last effort."
A vivid, firsthand account exploring the source of the singer's prodigious talent, widespread influence, and relentless path toward self-destruction, My Years with Townes Van Zandt presents the truth of that all-consuming artistic journey told by a close friend watching it unfold.
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Table of contents
- Introduction: “The Truth, No Matter What”
- Foreword
- Prologue: 1978: “Everybody Here’s Crazy Except Me!”
- 1 I First Meet the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
- 2 Moving Forward, One Backward Step at a Time
- 3 Welcome to Nashville: Would You Rather a Knife in the Chest or the Back?
- 4 We Hit the Road; Road Hits Back
- 5 The Crying Tour
- 6 Interlude ... Insanity Leaves, Then Sneaks in the Back Window
- 7 All Trails Lead to Townes
- 8 Back on the Road, Back on the Edge
- 9 “My Music Precedes Me”
- 10 The Last Lost Highway
- 11 No Place to Fall
- 12 Goodbye to All My Friends
- Afterword: “The Van Gogh of Lyrics”
- A Townes Van Zandt Discography
- Townes Van Zandt Discographical Data
- Recording Townes: Process and Philosophy
- Acknowledgments