Rear View Mirror

Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror

Rear View Mirror
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Artist: Townes Van Zandt
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1997-01-21
Music Label: Sugarhill
Soundtracks:
  1. Pancho & Lefty [#]
  2. If I Needed You [#]
  3. For the Sake of the Song [#]
  4. Our Mother the Mountain
  5. To Live Is to Fly
  6. Lungs
  7. Flying Shoes
  8. No Place to Fall
  9. Dollar Bill Blues
  10. White Freight Liner Blues
  11. Tecumseh Valley
  12. Don't You Take It Too Bad
  13. Tower Song
  14. Rex's Blues
  15. Brother Flower
  16. Waiting Around to Die
  17. Colorado Girl

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Music Review: music for your soul
Rating: 5 Stars

To take an idea from a song on They Might Be Giants' "Flood" CD, these songs could put a little birdhouse in your soul. I have been listening to several Townes Van Zandt CDs for at least a year. This is the one that is brilliant enough to support my desire to keep finding new messages for my soul in the songs he wrote. I have been listening to the song "Pancho and Lefty" since Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard made that the title song of an album about the crazy problems confronting addictive personalities. Their album's main emphasis was on reasons to quit that don't outnumber all the reasons why. One of the best lines from Townes Van Zandt on that album was, "The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth." Death, dreams, and what all the Federales say play a big part in that song. Singing it softly with a guitar late at night last weekend, I thought it sounded good, and I won a bit of respect from the man whose guitar I was playing. It made the guitar sound good.

I don't do "If I Needed You" as often, but it is a wonderful song which came into Townes Van Zandt's head while he was dreaming. People who believe that dreams can be turned into reality like he woke up, wrote down that song, and was able to play that song again when he woke up in the morning, have something that philosophers like Kant have been dismissing as merely fictions for hundreds of years.

"For the Sake Of The Song" expresses a basic reason that he felt he was on this earth. The images include an attempt to describe some girl, so I keep remembering "She" as the beginning of a line, but I don't sing this song enough to know how it goes. The main reason I listen to the CD is so more of these songs will stick in my mind. The pleasure of listening is gone too soon if my brain is not able to repeat what is worthy of great praise on its own.

Of the rest of the 17 songs on this CD, I am most familiar with "Waitin' Round To Die" and "Tecumseh Valley." I wish I knew the other songs better. They are performed well on this recording. The songs I don't know contain so much that the titles mean less to me than they should. "To Live Is To Fly" supports the idea that he was a bird, "both low and high." Two parakeets are mentioned (Loop and Lil agree?) in the song "If I needed You." Souls know more about this kind of thing than people like Kant could ever admit.

Description of Rear View Mirror

Rear View Mirror is one of the first two titles in a live-and-obscure series Sugar Hill began preparing prior to the great folksinger's death. Originally given limited release in 1993, it provides an overview of the songwriter's career, reaching back frequently to his most productive period, 1968-72. Backed by second guitarist Danny Rowland and fiddler Owen Cody, Van Zandt works his way through tunes he'd performed hundreds--perhaps thousands--of times in coffeehouses and clubs from Arkansas to Australia. He does so, however, with enduring verve and veracity. --Steven Stolder

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