On this day in 1997, singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt died in his Smyrna, Tennessee home at the age of 52. Van Zandt was among a group of elite Texas troubadours that included Guy Clark ...

Today, we look at Townes Van Zandt's classic 'Pancho and Lefty,' which was famously covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. A great song has many lives, especially when it gets recorded by ...

Townes Van Zandt, Beth Nielsen Chapman ... very long life for myself," Townes Van Zandt admitted before his untimely death in 1997 at age 52. "I think my life will run out before my work does.

The seeds in Townes Van Zandt’s hand are ground. What cannot be remembered can be remembered, the seeds are pulverized and bitterly soaked in beer. Glug glug is a sound, left in the throat by the ...