Townes Van Zandt is tagged as: folk, singer-songwriter, country, americana, alt-country Townes Van Zandt (John Townes Van Zandt, Fort Worth, Texas, March 7, 1944 – Smyrna, Tennessee, January 1, 1997) was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. While alive, Van Zandt was labelled as a cult musician: though he had a small and devoted fanbase, he never had a successful album or single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print. Many of his songs, including “If I Needed You,” “To Live Is To Fly,” and “No Place to Fall” are considered standards of their genre. AllMusic has called him “one of the greatest country and folk artists of his generation.”|In 1983, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song “Pancho and Lefty”, scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts. Despite achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various dive bars, often living in cheap motel rooms, backwoods cabins and on friends’ couches. Van Zandt was notorious for his drug addictions, alcoholism and his tendency to tell tall tales. A balanced, touching look at his talent and troubled life is called “Be Here to Love Me” and is online for apparently legal online viewing at the snagfilms website: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/be_her... Read More About Townes Van Zandt Biography...  Send Townes Van Zandt ringtones to your cell
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