Steve Earle - Townes (Limited Edition)
Rip Info
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Artist: Steve Earle
Album Title: Townes (Limited Edition)
Record Label: New West Records
Rip Date: 2009-05-12
Catalog Number:
Genre: Rock
Year: 2009
Source: CD/Multiple Discs
Encoder: LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality: 152 kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Track List
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Disc: 1
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01 Pancho and Lefty 4:01
02 White Freightliner Blues 3:27
03 Colorado Girl 3:35
04 Where I Lead Me 3:29
05 Lungs 2:18 2:18
06 No Place To Fall 2:52
07 Loretta 3:14
08 Brand New Companion 5:12
09 Rake 3:22
10 Delta Momma Blues 5:14
11 Marie 4:52
12 Don t Take It Too Bad 3:12
13 Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold 2:17
14 (Quicksilver Daydreams of) Maria 3:20
15 To Live Is To Fly 3:40
Disc: 2
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01 Pancho and Lefty (Solo) 4:01
02 Where I Lead Me (Solo) 3:37
03 Lungs (Solo) 2:22
04 No Place To Fall (Solo) 2:56
05 Loretta (Solo) 3:14
06 Brand New Companion (Solo) 5:11
07 Rake (Solo) 3:21
08 Marie (Solo) 4:49
09 Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold (Solo) 2:33
10 (Quicksilver Daydreams of) Maria (Solo) 3:15
11 To Live Is To Fly (Solo) 3:36
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Rip Notes
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Steve Earle is set to release Townes, his highly anticipated follow up to the
Grammy Award winning album Washington Square Serenade, on May 12th via New West
Records. 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.
Enjoy.