1 Pancho and Lefty
2 White Freightliner Blues
3 Colorado
Girl
4 Where I Lead Me
5 Lungs
6 No Place to Fall
7 Loretta
8 Brand New Companion
9 Rake
10 Delta Momma Blues
11 Marie
12 Don’t
Take It Too Bad
13 Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold
14 (Quicksilver Daydreams of)
Maria
15 To Live Is to Fly
Product Description
Steve Earle is set to release
Townes, his highly anticipated follow up to the Grammy Award winning album
Washington Square Serenade. The 15-song set is comprised of songs written by
Earle s friend and mentor, the late singer-songwriter, Townes Van Zandt. Townes
will also be available as a deluxe two-CD set, as well as double Limited
Edition
180 gram vinyl.
The album was produced by Earle at his home in Greenwich
Village, at Sound Emporium and Room and Board in Nashville, TN and The Nest in
Hollywood, CA. The track Lungs, was produced and mixed by the Dust Brothers
John
King and features Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine/The Nightwatchman on
electric guitar. Earle s wife, the acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Moorer,
is featured on backing vocals on Loretta and To Live Is To Fly. Three songs cut
in Nashville, White Freightliner Blues, Delta Momma Blues, and Don t Take It
Too
Bad feature a bluegrass band consisting of Dennis Crouch, Tim O Brien, Darrel
Scott and Shad Cobb.
Earle met Townes Van Zandt in 1972 at one of Earle s
performances at The Old Quarter in Houston, TX. Van Zandt was in the audience
and playfully heckled Earle throughout the performance to play the song Wabash
Cannonball Earle admitted that he didn t know how to play the tune and Van
Zandt
replied incredibly You call yourself a folksinger and you don t know Wabash
Cannonball? Earle then silenced him by playing the Van Zandt song Mr. Mudd and
Mr. Gold, not an easy feat due to its quickly-paced mouthful of lyrics squeezed
into just over two minutes of song. Their bond was immediately formed. On
Townes, Earle and his son, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle (named after
Van Zandt) trade verses on the tune, a song the two of them have been playing
together since Justin was a teenager.
The songs selected for Townes were
the ones that meant the most to Earle and the ones he personally connected to
(not including selections featured on previous Earle albums). Some of the
selections chosen were songs that Earle has played his entire career ( Pancho
and Lefty, Lungs, White Freightliner Blues ) and others he had to learn
specifically for recording. He learned the song (Quicksilver Daydreams of)
Maria
directly from Van Zandt, and taught himself Marie and Rake specifically for the
album s recording. Once a song he played during his live show, Earle relearned
Colorado Girl in the original Open D tuning that Van Zandt played it in. Earle
recorded the New York sessions solo and then added the other instruments later
on in order to preserve the spirit of Van Zandt s original solo performances to
the best of his recollection.
Steve.Earle.Townes.ByJoker.rarSteve Earle - Townes - 2009
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