Most singer-songwriters spend their entire career seeking out a truth worth writing about. For Townes Van Zandt, that truth seeped right out of his drug-laced veins and into his prolific musical catalogue. He was the outsider’s everyman: fearless, bold, and a bit destructive. While the Texas-born musician would later find fame in smoky bars and […]
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