Townes Van Zandt

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Townes Van Zandt

Waitin' around to die _ Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You - 1993

Townes Van Zandt Solo Sessions Jan 17, 1995

Open Collage in a new Window

Email the Collage

Loading suggestions ...

Akron, Ohio
Akron () is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. The municipality is situated on the Ohio and Erie Canal and Little Cuyahoga River, approximately 39 miles south of Cleveland midway between New York City and Chicago. As of 2000, the city proper had a total population of 217,074, being the fifth largest city in Ohio and 81st in the United States. The Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area, covers both, Summit and Portage counties. In 2000, the area had a population of 694,960 and in 2009, estimates placed the population at 699,935. Akron is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2000 had a population of 2,945,831, and ranked as the country's 14th largest. Like many former urban manufacturing centers of the U.S. Rust Belt, Akron's population has declined, falling from a peak of 290,351 in 1960, to just over two-thirds of that today.
http://wn.com/Akron_Ohio
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the fifteenth most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. Austin has a population of 786,382 (2009 U.S. Census estimate). The city is the cultural and economic center of the metropolitan area, with a population of 1,750,224 (2009 U.S. Census estimate), making it the 35th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
http://wn.com/Austin_Texas
Billings, Montana
http://wn.com/Billings_Montana
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the state of Colorado. The United States Census Bureau estimates that in 2008 the population of the city of Boulder was 94,268, while the population of the Boulder Metropolitan Statistical Area was 293,161. In 2009, the population was 100,160.
http://wn.com/Boulder_Colorado
Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
http://wn.com/Canada
Colorado
Colorado (pronounced or, chiefly by outsiders, ) is a U.S. state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Mountain States, and the Southwestern United States.
http://wn.com/Colorado
Drag (Austin, Texas)
The Drag is a nickname for a portion of Guadalupe Street that runs along the western edge of the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas.
http://wn.com/Drag_(Austin_Texas)
Faribault, Minnesota
Faribault ( ) is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 20,818 at the 2000 census, and currently has a population of 22,009. It is the county seat of Rice County. Faribault is approximately 50 miles (80 km) south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
http://wn.com/Faribault_Minnesota
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the seventeenth-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Located in and the western edge of the American South, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and Wise counties, serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2010 census estimates, Fort Worth had a population of 727,575. It has been estimated that by 2030 it will have 1,211,665 residents. The city is the second-largest cultural and economic center of the region.
http://wn.com/Fort_Worth_Texas
Galveston
http://wn.com/Galveston
Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
http://wn.com/Germany
Houston, Texas
http://wn.com/Houston_Texas
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County. As of 2009 , the estimated population of Midland was 108,668. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Midland County. The metropolitan area is also a component of the larger Midland–Odessa, Texas Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 266,941 as of July 1, 2009. People in Midland are called Midlanders.
http://wn.com/Midland_Texas
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.27 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
http://wn.com/Minnesota
Montana
http://wn.com/Montana
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, music, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities.
http://wn.com/Nashville_Tennessee
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,
http://wn.com/Ohio
Smyrna, Tennessee
Smyrna is a town in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. Smyrna's population was 25,569 people at the 2000 census. The Census estimate of the 2009 population is 39,724.
http://wn.com/Smyrna_Tennessee
South Congress
http://wn.com/South_Congress
Tennessee
Tennessee () is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,214,888, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 626,144. Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 670,902. Nashville has the state's largest metropolitan area, at 1,521,437 people.
http://wn.com/Tennessee
Texas
Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
http://wn.com/Texas
Travis County, Texas
Travis County is a county located in south central Texas astride the Balcones Fault, the boundary between the Edwards Plateau to the west and the Blackland Prairie to the east. It is part of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area. In the year 2009, the population was 1,026,158; the county has gained more than 400,000 residents since 1990. Its county seat is Austin, the capital of Texas. The county is named in honor of William Barret Travis, the commander of the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo.
http://wn.com/Travis_County_Texas
United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
http://wn.com/United_States

Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.
http://wn.com/Alison_Krauss
Blind Willie McTell
http://wn.com/Blind_Willie_McTell
Bob Dylan
http://wn.com/Bob_Dylan
Coen Brothers
http://wn.com/Coen_Brothers
Conor Oberst
Conor Mullen Oberst (born February 15, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, Norman Bailer (The Faint), Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, and his latest project, Monsters of Folk.
http://wn.com/Conor_Oberst
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he returned to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Banhart released his debut album in 2002, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels, as well as other work on compilations and collaborations.
http://wn.com/Devendra_Banhart
Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (born March 3, 1923) is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded. He performed with his son Merle for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985, in an accident on the family farm.
http://wn.com/Doc_Watson
Elvis Presley
http://wn.com/Elvis_Presley
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton.
http://wn.com/Emmylou_Harris
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962), best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon.. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity. This progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country music to a larger audience.
http://wn.com/Garth_Brooks
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch (; born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms".
http://wn.com/Gillian_Welch
Guy Clark
Guy Clark (born 6 November 1941) is an American country music artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell.
http://wn.com/Guy_Clark
Isaac Van Zandt
Isaac Van Zandt (July 10, 1813 – October 11, 1847) was a political leader in the Republic of Texas. Van Zandt County, Texas, was named in his honor.
http://wn.com/Isaac_Van_Zandt
Jerry Garcia
http://wn.com/Jerry_Garcia
Jerry Jeff Walker
Jerry Jeff Walker (born March 16, 1942) is a country music singer and songwriter. He is probably most famous for writing the song "Mr. Bojangles".
http://wn.com/Jerry_Jeff_Walker
John Kruth
http://wn.com/John_Kruth
John Lennon
http://wn.com/John_Lennon
John Lomax
John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs.
http://wn.com/John_Lomax
John Lomax III
http://wn.com/John_Lomax_III
John Prine
John Prine (born October 10, 1946, in Maywood, Illinois) is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.
http://wn.com/John_Prine
Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the front man of Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, an Americana rock and roll band. In 2006 Josh Ritter was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste magazine. Ritter has an Americana musical style and has often been compared to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Leonard Cohen.[2]
http://wn.com/Josh_Ritter
Lightnin' Hopkins
http://wn.com/Lightnin'_Hopkins
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. ''It's Not Big It's Large was released in 2007, where it debuted and peaked at #2 on the Top Country Albums chart. A new studio album, Natural Forces,'' was released on October 20, 2009 by Lost Highway Records.
http://wn.com/Lyle_Lovett
Mickey Newbury
Mickey Newbury (May 19, 1940 - September 29, 2002) was an American songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, a critically acclaimed recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
http://wn.com/Mickey_Newbury
Mozart
http://wn.com/Mozart
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered "the Father of blues". Blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams are his sons. A major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, Muddy was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
http://wn.com/Muddy_Waters
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith, (born Nanci Caroline Griffith, July 6, 1953, Seguin, Texas) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.
http://wn.com/Nanci_Griffith
Neil Young
http://wn.com/Neil_Young
Paul Harvey
http://wn.com/Paul_Harvey
Richard Dobson
Richard Dobson (born March 19, 1942) is an American singer/songwriter.
http://wn.com/Richard_Dobson
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
http://wn.com/Robert_Plant
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle (; born January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and country music as well as his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist, an actor and has written and directed a play.
http://wn.com/Steve_Earle
Steve Von Till
Steve von Till is best known as singer and guitarist for the atmospheric metal band Neurosis, replacing Chad Salter in 1989. He is also in Tribes of Neurot and Culper Ring, and records solo work under both his given name and the moniker Harvestman. His solo albums comprise of original songs and traditional folk arrangements, using minimalistic acoustic guitar and vocal styles.
http://wn.com/Steve_Von_Till
Tall tales
http://wn.com/Tall_tales
Tchaikovsky
http://wn.com/Tchaikovsky
Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs including "If I Needed You", "To Live Is To Fly", and "No Place to Fall" are considered standards of their genre. AllMusic has called him "one of the greatest country and folk artists of his generation."
http://wn.com/Townes_Van_Zandt
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
http://wn.com/Willie_Nelson

Townes Van Zandt in Heartworn Highway

Extract of Heartworn Highway, doc directed by James Szalapski. The song "Waitin' ...

published: 27 May 2006

Author: figurebob

Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty 1993 TV Performance

Townes Van Zandy performing "Pancho & Lefty" in 1993 on TNN's "Amer...

published: 25 Mar 2006

Author: imediocre

Townes Van Zandt - Cocaine Blues

Cocaine Blues by Townes Van Zandt. Check out my other videos!...

published: 24 Jun 2008

Author: SidewalksRomance

Waitin' around to die _ Townes Van Zandt

First release on audio album 'For the Sake of the Song' (1968) Jack Clement...

published: 11 Jun 2008

Author: najaolhos

Townes Van Zandt - Tecumseh Valley

Townes performing Tecumseh Valley....

published: 25 Jun 2008

Author: tomkgallacher

Rake - Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt at his best. "Rake" never fails to move me, and I've been d...

published: 14 Jul 2007

Author: mccrabapple

Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers

Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers (written by JAGGER/RICHARDS) from the album Road Songs (wi...

published: 22 Sep 2009

Author: Pauly McPaulson

Townes Van Zandt Pancho and Lefty

Live - Rear View Mirror CD Living on the road my friend Was gonna keep you free and clean ...

published: 22 May 2009

Author: townesfan10

Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You - 1993

Townes Van Zandt If I needed you San Antonio, Texas 1993...

published: 08 Feb 2009

Author: musicloveraustria2

Townes Van Zandt Solo Sessions Jan 17, 1995

A solo sessions performance on the now defunct Austin Music Network. Directed by Dave Prew...

published: 31 Aug 2008

Author: roio420

Townes Van Zandt- "Ballad of Ira Hayes"

From the Road Songs album (1992)....

published: 08 Mar 2009

Author: luxunsghost

Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You

september 15, 1975...

published: 05 Feb 2010

Author: nothingdrugs

Townes Van Zandt - Colorado Girl

Townes Van Zandt Album: Townes Van Zandt Year: 1969 Country/Folk/Blues...

published: 25 Mar 2010

Author: ridezafire

Townes Van Zandt-If I Needed You from Austin Pickers 1984

Recorded live in Austin in 1984. From my PBS series, "Austin Pickers"....

published: 01 Jun 2006

Author: austinpickers

Townes Van Zandt

Song by Townes Van Zandt 1968 Stella acoustic guitar. Living on the road my friends...

published: 09 Jul 2009

Author: Bryan Marovich

Songs of Townes Van Zandt

SCOTT KELLY, STEVE VON TILL & WINO – Songs Of Townes Van Zandt – LP/CD/DL www.myproudmount...

published: 26 Jul 2012

Author: kenneth thomas

Townes Van Zandt Strings (intro)

A short graphic done in Flash, introducing a prototype for a website for the singer/songwr...

published: 31 Aug 2009

Author: Dimitry Tetin

Rake by Townes Van Zandt

published: 27 Apr 2011

Author: Andrea

<li class="playlistitemli thumbnail border_color">
        <div class="video_facebook">
            <a href="http://web.archive.org./web/20121015025718/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://wn.com/townes_van_zandt&t=<%= title %>" title="Share this video" data-title="Share this video" target="_blank" style="target-name: new; target-new: tab;"></a>
        </div>

Creative Commons / Bhalash

Photo: AP / NASA

Redaktionshinweis: Verwendung des Bildes nur im Zusammenhang mit der Meldung "Nahe Supererde besteht zu einem Drittel aus Diamant" und bei Nennung "Spitzer-Weltraumteleskop/NASA/JPL-Caltech"! Keine Archivierung! +++ Die Illustration zeigt den seinen Stern sehr nah umkreisenden Planeten 55 Cancri e (r.).

Diamond bigger than Earth found

Stuff

11 Oct 2012

Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one's bigger than planet Earth. Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made...

Chat

Photo: AP / Predrag Vuckovic

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands safely on Earth after skydiving fom 24 miles

Detroit Free Press

14 Oct 2012

Update: Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has landed on Earth after a jump from the stratosphere in what could be the world's first supersonic skydive. Baumgartner landed in eastern New Mexico desert...

Chat

Photo: AP / K.M. Chaudary

Pakistani Christians chant slogans during a protest to condemn the attack on a 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.

Brutal attack on Pakistani girl an affront to human rights everywhere

The Star

12 Oct 2012

THE attack, last Tuesday, on Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year old Pakistani girl, who is in intensive care after she was shot in the head, in an assassination attempt by Taliban militants in broad...

Chat

Photo: AP / Mahmoud Tawil

Hezbollah Says It Flew Iranian-Designed Drone Into Israel

The New York Times

12 Oct 2012

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group and political party Hezbollah, declared Thursday that his fighters had assembled and piloted a drone that flew 35...

Chat

Photo: US DoD / Tyler Meister

U.S. Army overhauling its force for post-Afghanistan era

Denver Post

14 Oct 2012

FORT POLK, la. — Shortly after dark, the paratroopers jumped out of C-130s into a Caspian Sea country teeming with mayhem, political unrest and insurgents. Their first mission was to...

Chat

Timeline:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001

Andrew Bird â âIf I Needed Youâ (Townes Van Zandt Cover) 09 Oct 2012

Stereogum Townes Van Zandtâs almighty ballad âIf I Needed Youâ is one of those near-perfect songs that itâs just about impossible to effectively cover, even if that hasnât stopped every subway-platform troubadour worth her acoustic guitar case from trying. And now folk-pop big dog Andrew Bird has...(size: 5.6Kb)

Andrew Bird 'If I Needed You' Premiere: 'Old-Time' Townes Van Zandt Cover Was Recorded In ... 09 Oct 2012

Huffington Post Chicago's Andrew Bird is known for creating sounds worthy of a full ensemble using just a violin, his voice, his lips (he whistles like a lower-case bird) and a delay pedal. So it's only natural that, for his latest release, he should tackle a song most famously recorded as a duet by Emmylou Harris...(size: 3.4Kb)

Rumer's old music: Townes van Zandt – Flyin' Shoes 21 May 2012

The Guardian It's Rumer week at guardian.co.uk/music. She's taking over the Old Music blog to talk about her favourite songs, and on Thursday we've got an exclusive interview lined up as well as a special live stream for you. First up, she takes a look at a classic from America's greatest undersung songwriter...(size: 4.4Kb)

Quick quips: Grateful Dead, Sammy Hagar, Chickenfoot, Paul Weller, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, Townes Van Zandt, Aerosmith, George Harrison 18 Jan 2012

Music News Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann has told Rolling Stone that he doesn't think there was much time left for the dead whether Jerry Garcia survived or not. I think that Jerry had gotten kind of bored with the Grateful Dead, and it was sort of like a marriage that had maybe gone on too long. And...(size: 3.1Kb)

Texas Heritage Songwriters Association to Induct Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and Townes Van Zandt into Hall of Fame During Awards Show on March 4th, 2012 17 Jan 2012

Business Wire 7th Annual Hall of Fame Awards Show to Feature Performances by Renowned Texas Musicians at Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Texas Heritage Songwriters Association (TxHSA) will hold its 7th Annual Hall of Fame Awards Show on March 4th, 2012 at Austin City...(size: 8.4Kb)

Thoughts on Townes Van Zandt 27 Dec 2011

The Examiner Fame didn't seem to be something Townes Van Zandt was after in life but since his tragic and unexpected death in 1997 at the age of 52, he's gradually moved more and more into the Americana limelight. Not only is one of his many previously un-known songs the title track to Mike's new album, but...(size: 16.6Kb)

Jim James talks Townes Van Zandt, from the book "I'll Be Here In the Morning" 22 Dec 2011

Austin American Statesman I e-mailed My Morning Jacket's manager eight years ago. Said I was writing a book about Townes Van Zandt and wanted to include Jim James' thoughts. I had no idea whether James had heard the name let alone the music, but I was asking every songwriter under the sun at that point. James himself replied...(size: 4.7Kb)

Townes Van Zandt's bequest finds new life at "Dawn" 13 Feb 2010

Yahoo Daily News DETROIT (Billboard) – David Broza performed with Townes Van Zandt only once, during a Writers in the Round concert in Houston in 1994. After Van Zandt died three years later, the Israeli singer-songwriter was shocked to learn that the Texas music icon had left him a shoe box filled with...(size: 4.6Kb)

Songwriter Steve Earle will channel Townes Van Zandt at Seattle's Moore Theatre 20 Jan 2010

Seattle Times Sitting in a studio near the end of his rough-and-tumble life, cult country/folk songwriter Townes Van Zandt turned to friend Steve Earle. Van Zandt was rerecording "If I Needed You" for a collection, but his fingers couldn't do their job anymore. "I just started playing, and I played it just like...(size: 3.0Kb)

Dad-in-waiting Steve Earle channels Townes Van Zandt in uptown Manhattan 19 Dec 2009

The Examiner The expectant parents Photo by Jerry DeMarco for CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM Saturday, 19 December 2009: A very pregnant Allison Moorer joined Steve Earle for a few songs during her husband's two-hour acoustic show Friday night at the Society for Ethical Culture on Central Park West, a block from Lincoln...(size: 2.2Kb)

timeline:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001

Townes Van Zandt
Van Zandt in the film Heartworn Highways Van Zandt in the film Heartworn Highways
Background information
Birth name	John Townes Van Zandt
Born	(1944-03-07)March 7, 1944 Fort Worth, Texas
Died	January 1, 1997(1997-01-01) (aged 52) Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
Genres	Blues, folk, country
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter, producer, arranger
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1965–1996
Labels	Poppy, Tomato, Sugar Hill, TVZ, Fat Possum
Associated acts	Lightnin' Hopkins, Mickey Newbury, Steve Earle, Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys, Guy Clark
Website	townesvanzandt.com

John Townes Van Zandt^[1] (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You," "To Live is to Fly," and "No Place to Fall" are considered standards of their genre.

While alive, Van Zandt was labeled as a cult musician; though he had a small and devoted fanbase, he never had a successful album or single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print.^[2]^[3] In 1983, six years after Emmylou Harris had first popularized it, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song "Pancho and Lefty," scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts.^[2]^[4] Despite achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various dive bars,^[5] often living in cheap motel rooms, backwoods cabins, and on friends' couches.^[3] Van Zandt was notorious for his drug addictions,^[6] alcoholism,^[6] and his tendency to tell tall tales.^[7] When young, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and insulin shock therapy erased much of his long-term memory.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Van Zandt died on New Years Day 1997 from health problems stemming from years of substance abuse.^[6] The 2000s saw a resurgence of interest in Van Zandt.^[2] During the decade, two books, a documentary film, and a number of magazine articles about the singer were created.^[2] Van Zandt's music has been covered by such notable and varied musicians as Bob Dylan,^[11] Norah Jones,^[12] Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Cowboy Junkies.

Biography [link]

Early life [link]

Townes Van Zandt was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to a wealthy oil family. He was the third-great-grandson of Isaac Van Zandt, a prominent leader of the Republic of Texas and second great-grandson of Khleber M. Van Zandt, Confederate Major and one of the founders of Fort Worth.^[8] Van Zandt County in east Texas was named after his family in 1848. Townes' parents were Harris Williams Van Zandt (1913–1966) and Dorothy Townes (?-1983).^[13] He had two siblings, Bill and Donna. Harris was a corporate lawyer, and his career required the family to move several times during the 1950s and 1960s.^[14] In 1952 the family transplanted from Fort Worth to Midland, Texas, for six months before moving to Billings, Montana.

At Christmas in 1956, Townes' father gave him a guitar, which he practiced while wandering the countryside.^[15] He would later tell an interviewer that, "watching Elvis Presley's October 28, 1956, performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was the starting point for me becoming a guitar player... I just thought that Elvis had all the money in the world, all the Cadillacs and all the girls, and all he did was play the guitar and sing. That made a big impression on me."^[1] In 1958 the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. Van Zandt would remember his time in Colorado fondly and would often visit it as an adult. He would also later refer to Colorado in the songs "My Proud Mountains" and "Colorado Girl."

During his youth, Townes was noted as a good student and active in team sports.^[16] In grade school, it was recognized that Van Zandt had a genius IQ and his parents began grooming him to become a lawyer or senator.^[9] Fearing that his family would move again, he willingly decided to attend Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota.^[17] He received a score of 1170 when he took the SAT in January 1962.^[18] His family soon moved to Houston, Texas.

Van Zandt was accepted into the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1962. In the spring of his sophomore year, his parents flew to Boulder to bring Townes back to Houston, apparently worried about his binge drinking and episodes of depression.^[9] They admitted him to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was diagnosed with manic depression. He received three months of insulin shock therapy, which erased much of his long-term memory.^[8]^[9] Afterwards, his mother's "biggest regret in life was that she had allowed that treatment to occur."^[10] In 1965 he was accepted into the University of Houston's pre-law program. He soon after attempted to join the Air Force, but was rejected due to a doctor's diagnosis that called him "an acute manic-depressive who has made minimal adjustments to life."^[9] He finally quit school for good around 1967, having been inspired by his singer-songwriter heroes to pursue a career in playing music.

Early musical career [link]

In 1965 Van Zandt began playing regular shows at the Jester Lounge in Houston for $10 per night.^[19] There he met fellow musicians Lightning Hopkins, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doc Watson. His repertoire consisted mostly of covers of songs written by Hopkins, Bob Dylan, and others, as well as original novelty songs like "Fraternity Blues."^[20] In 1966, right before his death, Harris Van Zandt had encouraged his son to stop playing covers and write his own songs.^[21] In 1968 Van Zandt met songwriter Mickey Newbury in a Houston coffee shop. Newbury persuaded Van Zandt to go to Nashville, where he was introduced by Newbury to the man who would become his longtime producer, "Cowboy" Jack Clement.

Among Van Zandt's major influences was Texas blues man Lightnin' Hopkins, whose songs were a constant part of his repertoire. He also cited early Bob Dylan and Hank Williams as having had a major impact on his music. Van Zandt also cited such varied artists as Guy Clark, Muddy Waters, Mozart, The Rolling Stones, Blind Willie McTell, Tchaikovsky, Richard Dobson, and Jefferson Airplane as influences.^[1]

For much of his career, Van Zandt maintained a flippant attitude towards the recording process, with songwriting being his primary concern.^[22] As a result, his regular producer Jack Clement would take creative license, turning some of Van Zandt's early albums into uneven and wildly over-produced affairs.^[23] 1968's For the Sake of the Song features "harpsichords, flutes, martial drum beats, and a whole host of backup singers that would make the most overproduced Southern Gospel album hang its head in disgrace."^[23] Clement has since expressed regret over some of his production choices.^[23]

1970s [link]

The years between 1968 and 1973 would prove to be Van Zandt's most prolific era.^[2] He released five albums during the time period: Our Mother the Mountain, Townes Van Zandt, Delta Momma Blues, High, Low and in Between, and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. Among the tracks written for these albums were "For the Sake of the Song," "To Live is to Fly," Tecumseh Valley," and "Pancho and Lefty." These songs would eventually raise Van Zandt to near-legend status in American and European songwriting circles.^[2] In 1972 Van Zandt recorded tracks for an album with a working title of Seven Come Eleven, which would remain unreleased for many years due to a dispute between his manager Kevin Eggers and producer Jack Clement. Eggers either could not or refused to pay for the studio sessions, so Clement erased the master tapes. However, before they were deleted, Eggers snuck in to the studio and recorded rough mixes of the songs on to a cassette tape. Tracks from the aborted Seven Come Eleven debacle would later surface on The Nashville Sessions.

In 1975 Van Zandt was featured prominently in the documentary film Heartworn Highways with Guy Clark, Steve Earle, and David Allen Coe. His segment of the film was shot at his run-down trailer home in Austin, Texas, where Van Zandt is shown drinking straight whiskey during the middle of the day, shooting and playing with guns, and performing the songs "Waitin' Around to Die" and "Pancho & Lefty."^[24] His soon-to-be second wife Cindy and dog Geraldine (a large, "keenly intelligent" half-wolf, half-husky) are also featured in the film.^[25]

In 1977 Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas was released. The album showcased Van Zandt solo at a 1973 concert before a small audience, and less elaborately produced than many of his early records.^[26] The album received positive reviews,^[27] and is considered by many to be among the best albums that the songwriter ever released.^[23]^[27]^[28] Several points on the album showcased his dry sense of humor, a feature that also showed in some of his songwriting.

In the mid-1970s, Van Zandt split from his longtime manager, Kevin Eggers.^[2] He found a new manager, John Lomax III (grandson of the famed folk music historian John Lomax), who set up a fan club for Van Zandt.^[29] Though the club was only advertised through small ads in the back of music magazines, Lomax immediately began to receive hundreds of impassioned letters from around the world written by people who felt touched by Van Zandt.^[29] Some of the letters described how his material often served as a crutch for those who were dealing with depression.^[29] In the summer of 1978, the singer fired Lomax and re-hired Eggers. He soon after signed to Egger's new label, Tomato Records.^[2] The following year, he recorded Flyin' Shoes; he would not release another album until 1987's At My Window.

Despite critical acclaim, Van Zandt remained a cult figure. He normally played small venues (often to crowds of fewer than fifty people) but began to move towards playing larger venues (and even made a handful of television appearances) during the 1990s. For much of the 1970s, he lived a reclusive life outside of Nashville in a tin-roofed, bare-boards shack with no heat, plumbing or telephone, occasionally appearing in town to play shows.^[25] Steve Earle would later say that Van Zandt's primary concerns during this time period were planting morning glories, listening to Paul Harvey's radio show, and watching the sitcom Happy Days.

1980s - 1990s [link]

Several of Van Zandt's compositions were recorded by other artists, such as Emmylou Harris who, with Don Williams, had a #3 country hit in 1981 with "If I Needed You," and Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, the pair taking "Pancho & Lefty" to number one on the country charts in 1983. Van Zandt had a small cameo appearance in the video for the song. In his later years he recorded less frequently, his voice and singing style altered in part because of his lifestyle and alcoholism. However, he continued writing songs, such as "Marie" and "The Hole."

According to Susanna Clark, Van Zandt turned down repeated invitations to write with Bob Dylan.^[30] Dylan was reportedly a "big fan" of Townes and claimed to have all of his records; Van Zandt admired Dylan's songs, but didn't care for his celebrity.^[30] The two first met during a chance encounter outside a costume shop in the South Congress district of Austin, Texas, on June 21, 1986.^[30] According to Johnny Guess, Dylan later arranged another meeting with the songwriter. The Drag in Austin was shut down due to Dylan being in town; Van Zandt drove his motorhome to the cordoned-off area, after which Dylan boarded the vehicle and requested to hear him play several songs.^[31]

In May and June 1990, he opened for The Cowboy Junkies during a two-month-long tour of the United States and Canada, which exposed him to a younger generation of fans.^[1] As a result, he wrote the song "Cowboy Junkies Lament" for the group, with a verse about each respective member of the band.^[32]

Death [link]

Van Zandt continued writing and performing through the 1990s, though his output slowed noticeably as time went on. He had enjoyed some sobriety during the early 1990s, but was actively abusing alcohol during the final years of his life. In 1994 he was admitted to the hospital to detox, during which time a doctor told Jeanene Van Zandt that trying to detox Townes again could potentially kill him.^[33] He grew increasingly frail during the mid-1990s, with some long-time friends noting that he seemed to have "withered."^[34]

In the spring of 1996, he was contacted by Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, who informed Van Zandt that he was interested in recording and releasing an album for him on the band's Ecstatic Peace label, funded by Geffen.^[35] Van Zandt agreed, and sessions were scheduled to begin in Memphis during late December of that year.

On December 19 or 20, Van Zandt fell down the concrete stairs outside his home, badly injuring his hip.^[33]^[36] After lying outside for an hour, he dragged himself inside and called his ex-wife Jeanene, who sent their friends Royann and Jim Calvin to check on him. He told the couple that he had sustained the injury while getting out of bed, and refused medical treatment.^[36] They took him back to their home, and he spent the Christmas week on their couch, unable to get up even to use the bathroom.^[36]

Determined to finish the album that he had scheduled to record with Shelley and Two Dollar Guitar, Van Zandt arrived at the Memphis studio being pushed in a wheelchair by road manager Harold Eggers. Shelley canceled the sessions due to the songwriter's erratic behavior and drunkenness. Van Zandt finally agreed to hospitalization, but not before returning to Nashville. By the time he had consented to receive medical care, eight days passed since the injury.^[33] On December 31, X-rays revealed that Van Zandt had an impacted left femoral neck fracture in his hip, and several corrective surgeries were performed.^[37] Jeanene informed the surgeon that one of Townes' previous rehab doctors had told her detoxing could kill him.^[33] The medical staff tried to explain to her that detoxing a "late-term alcoholic" at home would be ill-advised, but he would have a better chance at recovering under hospital supervision.^[37] She did not heed these warnings, and instead checked Townes out of the hospital against medical advice.^[38] Understanding that he would most likely drink immediately after leaving the hospital, the physicians refused to prescribe him any painkillers.^[39]

By the time Van Zandt was checked out of the hospital early the next morning, he had begun to show signs of DTs.^[33] Jeanene rushed him to her car, where she gave him a flask of vodka to ward off the withdrawal delirium.^[33] She would later report that after getting back to his home in Smyrna, Tennessee, and giving him alcohol, he was "lucid, in a real good mood, calling his friends on the phone."^[33] Jim Calvin shared a marijuana joint with him,^[38] and he was also given about four Tylenol PM tablets.^[39]

While Jeanene was on the phone with Susanna Clark, their son Will noticed that Townes had stopped breathing and "looked dead."^[33] He alerted his mother, who attempted to perform CPR, "screaming his name between breaths."^[33] Townes Van Zandt died in the early morning hours of January 1, 1997, at the age of 52. His official cause of death was "natural" cardiac arrhythmia.^[40] He died forty-four years to the day after Hank Williams, one of his main songwriting influences.^[41]

Two services were held for Van Zandt: one in Texas, mostly attended by family; and another in a large Nashville church, attended by friends, acquaintances, and fans.^[9] Some of his ashes were placed underneath a headstone in the Van Zandt family plot at the Dido Cemetery in Dido, Texas, outside of Fort Worth.^[9]^[42]

Personal life [link]

Relationships [link]

Van Zandt married Fran Petters on August 26, 1965; a son, John Townes "J.T." Van Zandt II, was born to them on April 11, 1969, in Houston. The couple were divorced on January 16, 1970.^[1] She would later remarry, changing her last name to Lohr.^[43]

He moved in with Cindy Morgan in late 1974, and the two married in Nashville in September 1978. They became estranged for much of the early 1980s, and were divorced on February 10, 1983, in Travis County, Texas. They had no children together.^[1] She would later remarry, changing her last name to Lindgram.^[44]

Van Zandt's third and final marriage was to Jeanene Munsell (born February 21, 1957). They met on December 9, 1980 at a memorial for John Lennon. When the terminally-ill Dorothy Van Zandt learned that her son had impregnated Munsell, she told him, "You're going to do the right thing and honor that baby."^[45] He soon after divorced from his estranged second wife, and married Munsell on March 14, 1983; their first child, William Vincent, was born ten days later. Another child, Katie Belle, was born February 14, 1992. Van Zandt and Munsell were divorced on May 2, 1994. However, the two remained close until Townes' death, and Jeanene became an executor of the Estate of Townes Van Zandt.^[1]

Around the time of their April 1993 separation,^[46] Jeanene Van Zandt coaxed the musician into signing over the publishing rights of his entire back catalog and recording royalties to her and their children.^[47] Townes's only source of income after this point was money received from concert engagements,^[48] and even then Townes would frequently visit his ex-wife and "give her all the money in his pockets."^[49] Following their divorce in 1994, his only worldly possessions were listed as a 1989 GMC Truck with camper shell, a 1984 Honda Shadow Motorcycle and a 1983 Starwind 22-foot boat named Dorothy; he also retained sole ownership of his family inheritance of "ownership in oil lease and mineral rights."^[50]

At the time of his death, he had begun a long-distance relationship with a woman named Claudia Winterer from Darmstadt, Germany.^[51] The two met in November 1995 during a concert of his in Hanau. Van Zandt told several friends that he planned on marrying Winterer,^[52] but the two never became formally engaged.

Addiction [link]

Van Zandt struggled with heroin addiction and alcoholism throughout his adult life. At times he would become drunk on stage and forget the lyrics to his songs. At one point, his heroin habit was so intense that he offered Kevin Eggers the publishing rights to all of the songs on each of his first four albums for $20.^[53] At various points, Van Zandt's friends saw him shoot up not just heroin, but also cocaine, vodka, as well as a mixture of rum and Coke.^[54] On at least one occasion, he shot up heroin in the presence of his son J.T., who was only eight years old at the time.^[25]

As a result of Van Zandt's constant drinking, Harold Eggers, Kevin's brother, was hired on as his tour manager and 24-hour caretaker in 1976, a partnership that would last for the rest of the singer's life.^[53] Although the musician was many years older than he was, Eggers would later say that Van Zandt was his "first child."^[53]

Van Zandt's battle with addiction led him to be admitted to rehab almost a dozen times throughout the 1970s and 1980s.^[55] Medical records from his time in recovery centers show that he believed his drinking had become a problem around 1973, and by 1982 he was drinking at least a pint of vodka daily.^[55] Doctors notes reported: "He admits to hearing voices, mostly musical voices," and "Affect is blunted and mood is sad. Judgment and insight is impaired."^[55] At various points in his life, he was prescribed to take the antidepressant Zoloft and the mood stabilizer lithium.^[46]^[56] His final and longest period of sobriety during his adult life was a period of about a year in 1989 and 1990.^[32]

Legacy [link]

Legal issues over Van Zandt's work [link]

In the years immediately following Van Zandt's death, his former manager and label owner Kevin Eggers issued fourteen albums of both new and previously unreleased material by the singer, all without consent of his estate (represented by Jeanene Van Zandt and his three children).^[57] Eggers also claimed a 50% interest in eighty of Van Zandt's songs. After nearly ten years of legal battles, the court sided with the estate, issuing "injunctive relief against Eggers, restraining him from reproducing or distributing any of Van Zandt's songs."^[57]

It was revealed through these proceedings that Van Zandt's annual income in the years before his death had climbed to over $100,000, thanks in large part to the royalties accrued from his songs being covered by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Cowboy Junkies, and other major music stars.^[58]

After Van Zandt's death, Harold Eggers (Kevin's brother, Van Zandt's longtime road manager), whose job it was to make sure Townes' shows were recorded, released many video and audio recordings from hundreds of the songwriter's concerts he kept in his possession over a twenty-year period. At issue was whether Eggers or the estate should be in legal ownership of the tapes.^[57] An out-of-court settlement in 2006 "essentially granted the Van Zandts eventual control over all of Harold Eggers' mastered recordings (once certain undisclosed obligations were met), while Harold Eggers retained a 50% ownership interest in seven of the albums at issue and a royalty interest in the remaining recordings."^[57] However, both parties eventually found fault with the settlement and the issue was taken back to court.

On October 21, 2008, a number of Van Zandt's personal possessions were auctioned off at The Northside in Akron, Ohio, at a benefit for Wrecks Bell, Van Zandt's close friend and bandmate who was the inspiration for the song "Rex's Blues." Bell was half-owner of the nightclub in Houston where Townes recorded his album Live at the Old Quarter. He now owns the "new" Old Quarter in Galveston, which was uninsured and destroyed by Hurricane Ike.^[59] The Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe reopened on December 11, 2008, after a series of benefit concerts held state-wide.

In music [link]

Van Zandt has been referred to as a cult musician and "a songwriter's songwriter."^[60]^[61] Musician Steve Earle, who met him in 1978 and considered Van Zandt a mentor, once called Van Zandt "the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."^[60]^[62] The quote was printed on a sticker featured on the packing of At My Window, much to Van Zandt's displeasure.^[63] In the years following, the quote was often cited by the press, much to Van Zandt and Earle's embarrassment;^[64] in 2009, Earle told the New York Times, "Did I ever believe that Townes was better than Bob Dylan? No."^[64] But he later concluded at the end of the same article that, "As a songwriter, you won’t find anybody better." Earle has championed the songwriter on a number of occasions: his eldest son, Justin Townes Earle, also a musician, is named after Van Zandt;^[64] Earle wrote the song "Fort Worth Blues" as a tribute to the singer in the late 1990s,^[64] and in 2009 released an album titled Townes, which featured all covers of Van Zandt songs.^[64]

Influential in the sub-genre referred to as outlaw country, his Texas-grounded impact stretched farther than country. He has been cited as a source of inspiration by such notable artists as Bob Dylan,^[30] Neil Young,^[65] Willie Nelson,^[66] John Prine,^[66] Lyle Lovett,^[67] Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers,^[68] Emmylou Harris,^[66] Nanci Griffith,^[66] Cowboy Junkies,^[69] Vetiver,^[70] Guy Clark,^[66] Devendra Banhart,^[71] Norah Jones,^[12] Robert Plant & Alison Krauss,^[72] The Be Good Tanyas,^[73] Josh Ritter,^[74] Gillian Welch,^[75] Garth Brooks,^[76] Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes,^[77] and Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon.^[78]

In 2012, Van Zandt was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[79]

In July 2012 Neurot Recordings will release a three-way split CD in tribute to Van Zandt, featuring Neurosis singer/guitarists Scott Kelly,Steve Von Till and doom/stoner metal legend Wino.^[80]

In film and television [link]

Van Zandt's Roadsongs album version of The Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers" was used during the final scene of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film, The Big Lebowski. The song was also included on the movie's soundtrack.

Since his death, Van Zandt's recordings have been licensed by his family for use in a number of films and television programs, including Stepmom, Six Feet Under, In Bruges, Crazy Heart, Leaves of Grass, and Deadwood.

In the film Country Strong, the Austin Statesman describes the character of Beau Hutton as the next "Townes Van Zandt."

Films and books about Van Zandt [link]

In 2006, the film Be Here To Love Me,^[81] chronicling the artist's life and musical career, was released in the United States. It was very well received, earning a 93% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[82] Georgia Christgau of the Village Voice called the documentary "sympathetic but frank."^[83] Eddie Cockrell of Variety called the film "a dignified and wistful look at the unusual life, difficult career and lasting influence" of Van Zandt.^[84]

A biography, titled To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth, was released in 2007. It received mixed reviews, with Publishers Weekly lamenting that Kruth's "efforts are diminished by oddly alternating first- and third-person narratives, awkward transitions and text cluttered with excessive quotes... more insight into why - rather than countless tales of how - would have made this bio a more worthwhile read."^[85]

In April 2008, the University of North Texas Press published Robert Earl Hardy's biography on the songwriter, titled A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt. The book featured the fruits of over eight years of research, including interviews with Mickey Newbury, Jack Clement, Guy and Susanna Clark, Mickey White, Rex Bell, Dan Rowland, Richard Dobson, John Lomax III, Van Zandt's brother and sister, cousins, and all three of his ex-wives, and many others. It has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a "poignant, clear and vivid portrait."^[86]

Discography [link]

Studio albums [link]

For the Sake of the Song - 1968
Our Mother the Mountain - 1969
Townes Van Zandt - 1969
Delta Momma Blues - 1971
High, Low and in Between - 1972
The Late Great Townes Van Zandt - 1972
Flyin' Shoes - 1978
At My Window - 1987
The Nashville Sessions - 1993 (recordings from the aborted Seven Come Eleven album, recorded 1972)
No Deeper Blue - 1994
Riding The Range( only two songs: Riding The Range and Dirty Old Town ) - 1996
A Far Cry From Dead - 1999 (later-life studio guitar and vocal recordings posthumously overdubbed)
Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings - 2001
In the Beginning - 2003 (studio demo recordings from 1966)

Singles [link]

Waiting Around to Die/Talking Karate Blues - 1968
Second Lovers Song/Tecumseh Valley - 1969
Come Tomorrow/Delta Mama Blues - 1971
If I Needed You/Sunshine Boy - 1972
Honky Tonkin'/Snow Dont Fall - 1972
Fraulein/Don't Let the Sunshine Fool Ya - 1972
Greensboro Woman/Standin' - 1972
Pancho and Lefty/Heavenly Houseboat Blues - 1972
Pancho and Lefty/If I Needed You - 1973
Who Do You Love/Dollar Bill Blues - 1978
When She Don't Need Me/No Place to Fall - 1978
Dead Flowers/Fraulein/Racing in the Street - 1993 (German CD single)
Ain't Leavin' Your Love - 1999 (US CD single)
Riding the Range/Dirty Old Town - 1996
Snowin On Raton - 2001 (US CD single) -from Texas Rain
Highwaykind - 2002 (CD single)

Live albums [link]

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas - 1977 (recorded July 1973)
Live and Obscure - 1989 (recorded in 1985)
Rain on a Conga Drum: Live in Berlin - 1991 (recorded October 1990)
Roadsongs - 1993
Rear View Mirror - 1993 (recorded live Oklahoma, 1979)
Abnormal - 1996 (reissued in 1998 with 3 tracks replaced)
The Highway Kind - 1997
Documentary - 1997
Last Rights - 1997 (alternative version of Documentary)
In Pain - 1999 (recorded live, 1994/1996)
Together at the Bluebird Café w/ Guy Clark and Steve Earle - 2001 (recorded September 1995)
Live at McCabe's - 2001 (recorded February 1995)
A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt - 2002 (recorded November 1969)
Absolutely Nothing - 2002 (recorded 1991-1996)
Acoustic Blue - 2003 (recorded 1994/1996)
Live at the Jester Lounge, Houston, Texas, 1966 - 2004
Rear View Mirror, Volume 2 - 2004 (recorded 1978/79)
Live at Union Chapel, London, England - 2005 (recorded April 1994)
Houston 1988: A Private Concert - 2005

Videos [link]

Heartworn Highways - 1981
Be Here to Love Me - 2004
Houston 1988: A Private Concert - 2004
Townes Live In Amsterdam - 2008 (recorded 11/12/91)

Compilations [link]

Last Rights: The Life & Times of Townes Van Zandt - 1997
Master - 1997
Anthology: 1968-1979 - 1998
The Best of Townes Van Zandt - 1999
Drama Falls Like Teardrops - 2001
The Very Best of Townes Van Zandt: The Texan Troubadour - 2002
Singer Songwriter - 2002
Texas Troubadour - 2002
Legend - 2003
Buckskin Stallion - 2006

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Townes Van Zandt FAQ.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h AllMusic biography page: "Townes Van Zandt".
^ ^a ^b Onion AV Club article: "Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt review".
^ AllMusic review: "Pancho & Lefty."
^ San Francisco Gate article: "Two Years After Death, Van Zandt May Have His Definitive Album".
^ ^a ^b ^c Pop Matters review: "Pop Matters: Be Here To Love Me review".
^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c Jim Manion (July 16, 1999). "Townes Van Zandt - A Far Cry From Dead". Totally Adult Review. http://www.townesvanzandt.com/ta_unedited.html. Retrieved 2011-05-08. (archived at TownesVanZandt.com)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Texas Monthly article: The Great, Late Townes Van Zandt".
^ ^a ^b J.T. Van Zandt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t_X9WXvF5E
^ Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Archive article: "BOB DYLAN TIMELINE."
^ ^a ^b IMDB combined details page for Norah Jones & the Handsome Band: Live in 2004.
^ "Townes Van Zandt - Frequently Asked Questions". Pnwpest.org. http://pnwpest.org/coopl/tvzfaq.html. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; pp. 14-16.
^ Billboard review: A Deeper Kind of Blue.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 17.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 25.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 27.
^ YouTube video: "Townes Van Zandt - interview in Oslo (NRK Lydverket)."
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 60.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 212.
^ In John Kruth's biography on the singer, To Live's to Fly, it is described how Van Zandt maintained a flippant attitude towards the recording process, with songwriting being his primary concern.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Pop Matters review: "For the Sake of the Song".
^ IMDB entry for Heartworn Highways.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dallas Music article: "Way of the Gun - Living up to his famous father is a tall order for J.T. Van Zandt".
^ Blurt Online review: "Townes Van Zandt: Live at the Old Quarter".
^ ^a ^b Rolling Stone review: "Townes Van Zandt - Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas"
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 130.
^ ^a ^b ^c Under The Radar article: "Interview with Margaret Brown".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 203.
^ Be Here to Love Me bonus features: Johnny Guess interview.
^ ^a ^b A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 216.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ KUT-FM's Texas Music Matters: Townes Van Zandt Special.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 247.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 245.
^ ^a ^b ^c A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 255.
^ ^a ^b A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 260.
^ ^a ^b A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 261.
^ ^a ^b A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 262.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 264.
^ Kruth, J. (2007) "To Live's to Fly : The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt".
^ "Townes Van Zandt - Frequently Asked Questions, #17". Pnwpest.org. http://pnwpest.org/coopl/tvzfaq.html#17. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ Texas Monthly article: "The Great, Late Townes Van Zandt".
^ Cindy Van Zandt Lindgram's entry at IMDB.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 190.
^ ^a ^b A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 230.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 228.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 229.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 231.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 232.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 241.
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 266.
^ ^a ^b ^c Austin Chronicle article: "Townes Without Pity: The Battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy".
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; pp. 127-128.
^ ^a ^b ^c A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 195.
^ Hittin' the Note article: "Townes Van Zandt - messages from the outside".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Austin Chronicle article: "For The Sake of the Song".
^ Austin Chronicle article: The Battle for Townes Van Zandt's Legacy".
^ John Nova Lomax (2008-09-24). "Rex "Wrecks" Bell Is Just Playing - Page 1 - Music - Houston". Houston Press. http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-09-25/news/rex-wrecks-bell-is-just-playing/. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ ^a ^b Jo Roberts (July 22, 2005). "The songwriter". theage.com.au. http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/the-songwriters-songwriter/2005/07/21/1121539089155.html. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ [2]^{[dead link]}
^ "Townes van Zandt". MetaFilter. http://www.metafilter.com/48367/Townes-van-Zandt. Retrieved 2011-05-08. ^{[dubious – discuss]}
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 205.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e New York Times article: "Freeing a Mentor From His Mythology."
^ A Deeper Blue: The Life & Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy; p. 197.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e AllMusic review: "Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt".
^ Austin Chronicle article: "Lyle Lovett."
^ Muzzle of Bees article: "Scott Avett plays Townes Van Zandt :: Greensboro Woman."
^ CMT.com article: "Townes Van Zandt - Biography."
^ AllMusic review: "Thing of the Past."
^ Blurt Online article: "LOOTING THE BINS WITH DEVENDRA BANHART."
^ AllMusic page: "Raising Sand: Credits".
^ AllMusic review: "Chinatown."
^ Steven Wilcock. "Josh Ritter interview - Triste Magazine". Triste.co.uk. http://www.triste.co.uk/jritter.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ Amazon.com entry: "Gillian Welch - The Revelator Collection."
^ Garth Brooks official website: "Bio - The Early Years."
^ The Daily Telegraph article: "Steve Earle interview for the album Townes."
^ Goodman, Frank (May 2007). "A Conversation with Nathan Followill of Kings of Leon". Puremusic.com.
^ http://texasheritagesongwriters.com/bios/townes_van_zandt.php
^ http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/2012/04/13/steve-von-till-scott-kelly-album-to-see-us-release-via-neurot-in-june/
^ "Townes Van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me (Full Film)". Snagfilms.com. 2010-11-24. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/be_here_to_love_me/. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ "Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/be_here_to_love_me/. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ Georgia Christgau (2005-11-22). "Hard-Living Folk Icon in a Sympathetic but Frank Doc - Page 1 - Movies - New York". Village Voice. http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-11-22/film/hard-living-folk-icon-in-a-sympathetic-but-frank-doc/. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ Cockrell, Eddie (2004-09-29). "Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt". Variety.com. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117925098.html?categoryid=31&cs=1. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ "To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (9780306816048): John Kruth: Books". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0306816040. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
^ "A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series) (9781574412475): Robert Earl Hardy: Books". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1574412477. Retrieved 2011-05-08.

Lomax, John III. (1998). "Townes Van Zandt". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 562.
John Kruth. "To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt". Da Capo Press, 2007. ISBN 0-306-81553-2.

External links [link]

Townes Van Zandt Central - official website
Townes Van Zandt at AllMusic
Townes Van Zandt at the Internet Movie Database
Townes Van Zandt: The Self-Destructive Hobo Saint by John Kruth, originally appeared in Sing Out! V48#2
Travels with Townes Van Zandt by Steve Hawley July 2003

Awards
Preceded by Mickey Newbury	AMA Presidents Award 2007	Succeeded by Jerry Garcia

v t e Townes Van Zandt

Studio albums	For the Sake of the Song Our Mother the Mountain Townes Van Zandt Delta Momma Blues High, Low and In Between The Late Great Townes Van Zandt Flyin' Shoes At My Window The Nashville Sessions No Deeper Blue

Compilation albums	Last Rights: The Life & Times of Townes Van Zandt Master Anthology: 1968-1979 The Best of Townes Van Zandt Drama Falls Like Teardrops The Very Best of Townes Van Zandt: The Texan Troubadour Singer Songwriter Texas Troubadour Legend Buckskin Stallion

Live albums	Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas Live and Obscure Rain on a Conga Drum: Live in Berlin Roadsongs Rear View Mirror Abnormal The Highway Kind Documentary Last Rights in Pain Together at the Bluebird Café (with Guy Clark and Steve Earle) Live at McCabe's A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt Absolutely Nothing Acoustic Blue Live at the Jester Lounge, Houston, Texas, 1966 Rear View Mirror, Volume 2 Live at Union Chapel, London, England Houston 1988: A Private Concert In the Beginning

Related articles	Heartworn Highways Be Here to Love Me Townes

Persondata
Name	Van Zandt, Townes
Alternative names
Short description	American songwriter
Date of birth	1944-03-07
Place of birth	Fort Worth, Texas
Date of death	1997-01-01
Place of death	Smyrna, Tennessee

http://wn.com/Townes_Van_Zandt

http://ru.wn.com/Ван Зандт, Таунс

http://fr.wn.com/Townes Van Zandt

http://nl.wn.com/Townes Van Zandt

http://de.wn.com/Townes Van Zandt

http://it.wn.com/Townes Van Zandt

http://es.wn.com/Townes Van Zandt

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt

This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.

Demetri Martin
Demetri Martin at Northeastern University on April 11, 2007
Born	(1973-05-25) May 25, 1973 (age 39) New York City, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Years active	Since 2002
Genres	Observational comedy, surreal humor, musical comedy, wit/wordplay, sketch comedy
Subject(s)	Everyday Life, American Culture, Random Subjects
Influences	Steven Wright, Eddie Izzard, Emo Philips, Mitch Hedberg, Socrates
Notable works and roles	· Demetri Martin. Person. · Correspondent on The Daily Show · Himself/Various on Important Things with Demetri Martin · Elliot Tiber in Taking Woodstock (2009)
Website	www.demetrimartin.com

Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on The Daily Show and for his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin.

1 Early life
2 Career
- 2.1 Plans
- 2.2 If I
3 Comedic style
4 Personal life
5 Filmography
6 Filmography and television work
7 Written works
8 Awards and nominations
9 References
10 External links

Early life [link]

Demetri Martin was born to a Greek American family^[1] in New York City, New York, and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey. He is the son of Lillian, a nutritionist, and Dean C. Martin, now deceased, a Greek Orthodox priest.^[2] Martin graduated from Yale University in 1995. Although he was accepted into Harvard Law School, he went to New York University School of Law after he received a full scholarship.^[3]

Career [link]

In 2001, Martin caught his first big break in stand-up comedy when he appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up showcase Premium Blend. At the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe he won the Perrier award with his show If I....^[4] The show was turned into a British television special in 2004. From 2003 to 2004, Martin wrote for Late Night with Conan O'Brien.^[5] In 2004, Martin had his own Comedy Central Presents stand-up special. His special was divided into three parts. In the first, he performed in traditional stand-up comedy fashion. In the second segment, he used humorous drawings as visual aids, which would serve either as the punchline or a background. During the third segment, he played a guitar and put on a pseudo-play where he would strum his guitar while alternating between playing harmonica and talking; some of his comedian friends dressed as fairies and dragons acted according to the story he was telling, detailing the magical land where his jokes came from. Martin's mother and grandmother also appeared.

Since late 2005, he has been credited as a contributor on The Daily Show, on which he has appeared as the named "Senior Youth Correspondent" and on which he hosts a segment called "Trendspotting". He has used this segment to talk about so-called hip trends among youth such as hookahs, wine, guerilla marketing and Xbox 360. A piece about social networking featured his profile on MySpace.^[6] On March 22, 2007, Demetri made another appearance on The Daily Show, talking about the Viacom lawsuit against Google and YouTube.

He has recorded a comedy CD/DVD titled These Are Jokes, which was released on September 26, 2006. This album also features Saturday Night Live member Will Forte and stand-up comedian Leo Allen.

Martin returned to The Daily Show on March 22, 2006, as the new Youth Correspondent, calling his segment "Professional Important News with Demetri Martin". In 2007, he starred in a Fountains of Wayne music video for "Someone to Love" as Seth Shapiro, a character in the song. He also starred in the video for the Travis single "Selfish Jean", in which he wears multiple t-shirts with lyrics written on them.

On September 2, 2007, Martin appeared on the season finale of the HBO series Flight of the Conchords. He appeared as a keytar player named Demetri.^[7]

He also had a part in the movie The Rocker (2008) starring Rainn Wilson. Martin played the part of the videographer when the band in the movie was making their first music video.

In 2009, he hosted and starred in his own television show called Important Things With Demetri Martin on Comedy Central. Later in June, it was announced his show had been renewed for a second season.^[8] The second season premiered, again on Comedy Central, on February 4, 2010. Martin has stated that Important Things will not return for a third season.

Prior to completing work on his second season, Martin starred in the comedy-drama film Taking Woodstock (2009), directed by Ang Lee, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In the film Martin plays Elliot Tiber, a closeted gay artist who has given up his ambitions in the city to move upstate and help his old-world Jewish family run their Catskill Mountains motel. The film is based on the book written by Tiber.

On April 25, 2011, Martin released his first book, titled This Is a Book by Demetri Martin.

Martin was slated to portray Paul DePodesta as Oakland Athletics assistant GM to Billy Beane in the 2011 movie Moneyball, however was dropped and Jonah Hill took his place in the movie.

Plans [link]

Martin sold his movie concept Will to DreamWorks; he is expected to play a key supporting role.^[9] He will play the lead in the film Moon People, a pitch that he sold to Columbia Pictures.

Martin also signed a blind script deal with CBS in October 2010 to produce, write, and star in his own television series.^[10]

After CBS was shown the pilot for the series, they decided not to air it.^[11]

On August 11, 2011, Fox ordered a presentation of a new animated show they might air.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] If I

If I is a Perrier Comedy Award-winning comedy one-man show written and performed by Demetri Martin at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.^[12] It was also aired on British television as a special. The show is an autobiographical examination of Martin's life, as seen through various definitions of the word "if."

The title of the special comes from a lengthy palindromic poem that Martin wrote; the words "if I" are at the center of the poem.^[13]

Comedic style [link]

Martin is known for being an unconventional stand-up comic. He uses one-liners and drawings on a "large pad", as well as accompanying his jokes with music on either guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboard, glockenspiel, toy bells, ukulele, or tambourine, sometimes all at once.^[14] He has cited comedian Steven Wright as an important influence (both use deadpan one-liners in their acts) and he is also a fan of Bill Cosby.^[15]

Personal life [link]

According to a July 2011 interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Demetri had a short-lived marriage to a girl he knew from high school. They began dating after high school and got married when he was in NYU Law School and she was attending NYU Medical School. He was aged 25 and in the end of his marriage when his stand-up career began.^[3]

He is extremely allergic to nuts and peanuts.^[16]

Martin moved to Santa Monica, California in 2009.^[17]

Filmography [link]

Invite Them Up (2005)
These Are Jokes (2006)
Demetri Martin. Person. (2007)
Important Things with Demetri Martin (2009–2010)

Filmography and television work [link]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Analyze That	Personal Assistant	credited as "Demitri Martin"
2003	If I	Himself	British television special, also writer
2004	12:21	Himself	short film, also writer
2004	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Himself	1 episode, series writer
2007	"Someone to Love"	Seth Shapiro	Fountains of Wayne music video
2007	Flight of the Conchords	Demetri	Season 1, Episode 12
2008	The Rocker	Kip (a music video producer)
2009	Paper Heart	Himself
2009	Post Grad	Ad Exec
2009	Taking Woodstock	Elliot Tiber
2009–2010	Important Things with Demetri Martin	Himself / Various	writer, series creator, executive producer, and composer
2011	Take Me Home Tonight	Carlos
2011	Contagion	Dr. David Eisenberg
2011	Conan	Himself	guest

Written works [link]

This Is a Book, April 2011, ISBN 978-0446539708.

Awards and nominations [link]

Year	Award	For	Category	Result	Other notes
2003	Perrier Comedy Award	If I		Won	At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2004	Emmy Awards	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program	Nominated	Shared with Mike Sweeney (head writer), Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Andy Blitz, Kevin Dorff, Daniel J. Goor, Michael Gordon, Brian Kiley, Michael Koman, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Allison Silverman, Robert Smigel, Brian Stack, Andrew Weinberg
2005	Writers Guild of America Award	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - Series	Won	Shared with Mike Sweeney (head writer), Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Andy Blitz, Kevin Dorff, Daniel J. Goor, Michael Gordon, Brian Kiley, Michael Koman, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Allison Silverman, Robert Smigel, Brian Stack, Andrew Weinberg
2006	Barry Award	Dr. Earnest Parrot Presents Demetri Martin		Won	Award for best show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival

References [link]

^ "Demetri Martin: The joker in the pack". The Independent (London). August 17, 2004. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/demetri-martin-the-joker-in-the-pack-556879.html.
^
- "Sepinwall on TV: 'Important Things with Demetri Martin' Interview". TV & Film. New Jersey Entertainment. http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/02/sepinwall_on_tv_important_thin.html. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
- "Article: 'I know men who can far outgeek me'; Demetri Martin is obsessed with word games and maths, and sets himself bizarre challenges. He's also a favourite to win this year's Perrier Award". The Evening Standard. August 21, 2003. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-106769338.html?refid=gg_x_02. Retrieved January 25, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - Episode 195 - Demetri Martin". Wtfpod.com. http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_195_-_demetri_martin. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
^ Martin, Demetri (May 25, 2004). "Diary: A Weeklong Electronic Journal". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2101150/entry/2101158/. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
^ "Demetri Martin Bio". Comedy Central. http://www.comedycentral.com/comedians/browse/m/demetri_martin.jhtml. Retrieved March 7, 2008.
^ "News Team: Demetri Martin". The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Comedy Central. http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/news_team/contributors/demetri_martin.jhtml. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
^ "The Flight of the Conchords" The Third Conchord (2007) - Full cast and crew
^ Itzkoff, Dave (June 2, 2009). "Another 'Important' Season for Demetri Martin". The New York Times. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/another-important-season-for-demetri-martin/. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
^ Gardner, Chris (March 27, 2006). "'Will' Fills D'Works Bill". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117940457.html?categoryid=1948&cs=1. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
^ "Demetri Martin To Star, Write, Produce Own CBS Show". October 19, 2010. http://demetrimartin.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/demetri-martin-to-star-write-produce-own-cbs-show/.
^ "Demetri Martin's CBS Show Not Happening". March 11, 2011. http://demetrimartin.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/demetri-martins-cbs-show-not-happening/.
^ Boztas, Senay (August 24, 2003). "Martin Lands Perrier Award". The Sunday Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article883269.ece. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
^ "Festival: It's All Geek to Me". The Sunday Times (London). August 17, 2003. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article872984.ece.
^ "Comedian Demetri Martin's 'Important' TV Show Fails at Funny". The Daily Texan. February 20, 2009. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/1.1370449-1.1370449. Retrieved January 25, 2010. ^{[dead link]}
^ Huang, Keith (May 5, 2005). "Word Games". Gelf. http://www.gelfmagazine.com/mt/archives/word_games.html. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
^ "Will Ferrell Rider". The Smoking Gun. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/will-ferrell-rider?page=2. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
^
- The Adam Carolla Show (podcast), 13 April 2011, 20 minute mark
- Horn, John (June 21, 2009). "Demetri Martin, star of 'Taking Woodstock'". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/21/entertainment/ca-hot-martin21. Retrieved 21 April 2011. "Martin, who recently moved from Brooklyn to West Los Angeles"

External links [link]

This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (May 2012)

Official website
Demetri Martin on Myspace
Demetri Martin at the Internet Movie Database
Interview from November, 2006, in Onion AV Club
Interview from October 2006, in The DePaulia
Article, in The Scotsman
Article, in Gelf Magazine
Interview by Brian M. Palmer
MP3 Audio Interview on The Sound of Young America public radio show and podcast
Interview Believer Mag
New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Fresh Air, NPR.org

v t e Demetri Martin

Albums	Invite Them Up These Are Jokes

DVDs	Demetri Martin. Person.

TV	The Daily Show Important Things with Demetri Martin If I

Film	The Rocker Post Grad Taking Woodstock Take Me Home Tonight (film) Contagion

v t e The Daily Show

Hosts	Craig Kilborn (1996–1998) Jon Stewart (1999–present)

Correspondents	Samantha Bee Wyatt Cenac Jason Jones Al Madrigal Aasif Mandvi Olivia Munn John Oliver Jessica Williams

Contributors	Lewis Black Josh Gad John Hodgman Kristen Schaal Larry Wilmore Sarah Vowell

Former correspondents and contributors	Dave Attell Dan Bakkedahl Mary Birdsong Michael Blieden John Bloom A. Whitney Brown Rich Brown Sameer Butt Steve Carell Stephen Colbert Nate Corddry Rob Corddry Frank DeCaro Vance DeGeneres Eric Drysdale Susie Essman Adrianne Frost Jon Glaser Dave Gorman Stacey Grenrock-Woods Rachael Harris Ed Helms Buck Henry Laura Kightlinger Andy Kindler Beth Littleford Demetri Martin Jerry Minor Molly Pesce David Pompeii Rob Riggle Mo Rocca Tom Shillue Denny Siegel Campbell Smith Jeff Stilson Miriam Tolan Paul F. Tompkins Brian Unger David Wain Nancy Walls Matt Walsh Lauren Weedman Bob Wiltfong Lizz Winstead

Guests	1996–1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Indecision	2000 2004 2006 2008 2010

Spin-offs	The Colbert Report

Other	America (The Book) Earth (The Book) Writers Awards Recurring elements Busboy Productions Who Made Huckabee? 2009 CNBC criticism Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Book:The Daily Show Category:The Daily Show Portal:Comedy

Persondata
Name	Martin, Demetri
Alternative names
Short description	American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist
Date of birth	May 25, 1973
Place of birth	New York City, New York, United States
Date of death
Place of death

http://wn.com/Demetri_Martin

http://ru.wn.com/Мартин, Деметри

http://fr.wn.com/Demetri Martin

http://de.wn.com/Demetri Martin

http://it.wn.com/Demetri Martin

http://cs.wn.com/Demetri Martin

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetri_Martin

This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.

Ira Hamilton Hayes

Nickname	Chief Falling Cloud^{[citation needed]}
Born	(1923-01-12)January 12, 1923 Sacaton, Arizona
Died	January 24, 1955(1955-01-24) (aged 32) Sacaton, Arizona
Place of burial	Arlington National Cemetery, Section 34
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1942 - 1945
Rank	Corporal
Unit	3rd Parachute Battalion 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines 1st Headquarters Battalion, HQMC
Battles/wars	World War II Bougainville Campaign Battle of Iwo Jima

Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was a Pima Native American and an American Marine who was one of the six men immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II.^[1]^[2] Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community in Sacaton, Arizona, and enlisted in the Marine Forces Reserve on August 24, 1942. He trained as a Paramarine and saw action in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. On February 19, 1945, Hayes participated in the landing at Iwo Jima and fought in the subsequent battle for the island. On February 23, Hayes, together with fellow Marines Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Mike Strank, and Navy Corpsman John Bradley, raised the American flag over Mount Suribachi, an event photographed by Joe Rosenthal.

As a result of Rosenthal's photograph, Hayes and the others became national heroes in the United States. He was instrumental in confirming the identity of one of his fellow Marines in the photograph, Harlon Block. Hayes was never comfortable with his new-found fame, however, and after his honorable discharge from the Marine Corps he descended into alcoholism. He died of exposure and alcohol poisoning on January 24, 1955 after a night of drinking, and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

Hayes was often commemorated in art and film, both before and after his death. He is depicted in the Marine Corps War Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, based on the famous photograph, and he portrayed himself in the 1949 film Sands of Iwo Jima. His story was the subject of the 1961 film The Outsider, and inspired Peter La Farge's song "The Ballad of Ira Hayes". He was also depicted in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers.

1 Early life
2 Commemoration
3 Portrayal in music, film and literature
4 Monuments, memorials, and namings
5 See also
6 Bibliography
7 External links

Early life [link]

Hayes was born in Sacaton, Arizona, a town located in the Gila River Indian Community in Pinal County, the eldest of six children to Nancy Hamilton (1901–1972) and Joseph Hayes (1887–1978).^[3] The Hayes children were: Ira (1923–1955), Harold (1924–1925), Arlene (1926–1929), Leonard (1927–1952), Vernon (1929–1958), and Kenneth (born 1931).^[3]

Joseph Hayes was a World War I veteran who supported his family by subsistence farming and cotton harvesting.^[4] Nancy Hayes was a devout Presbyterian and a Sunday school teacher at the Assemblies of God church in Sacaton.^[4]

As a child, Hayes was remembered as being shy and sensitive by his family and friends. Sara Bernal, his first cousin, stated, "[Joseph Hayes] was a very quiet man, he would go days without saying anything unless you spoke to him first. The other Hayes children would play and tease me, but not Ira. He was quiet, and somewhat distant. Ira didn't speak unless spoken to. He was just like his father."^[5] His boyhood friend Dana Norris stated, "Even though I'm from the same culture, I could never get under his skin. Ira had the characteristic of not wanting to talk. But we Pimas are not prone to tooting our own horns. Ira was a quiet guy, such a quiet guy."^[5] Despite this, Hayes was a precocious child who displayed an impressive grasp of the English language, a language that many Pimas did not know how to speak.^[4] He was also a voracious reader, learning how to read and write by age four.^[4]

Pfc. Ira H. Hayes, a Pima, at age 19, ready to jump, Marine Corps Paratroop School, 1943

In 1932, the family settled in Bapchule, Arizona, located approximately 12 miles northwest of Sacaton.^[4] The Hayes children attended grade school in Sacaton and high school at the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona. Esther Monahan, one of his classmates, stated, "Ira wasn't like the other guys. He was shy and never talked to us girls. He was so much more shy than the other Pima boys. The girls would chase him and try to hug him and kiss him, like we did with all the boys. We'd catch the other boys, who enjoyed it. But not Ira. Ira would just run away."^[6] After the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Ira confided to his classmate Eleanor Pasquale that he was determined on serving in the United States Marine Corps.^[6] Pasquale stated, "Every morning in school, [the students] would get a report on World War II. We would sing the anthems of the Army, Marines, and the Navy."^[7] In June 1942, Hayes graduated at the Phoenix Indian School and returned to the reservation.

Hayes enlisted in the Marine Forces Reserve on August 24, 1942.^[8]

Hayes had been trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, and went on to become a paratrooper at Marine Corps Base San Diego and had a codename of Chief Falling Cloud. On December 2, 1942, he joined Company B, 3rd Parachute Battalion, Divisional Special Troops, U.S. 3rd Marine Division, at Camp Elliott, California. On March 14, 1943, Hayes sailed for New Caledonia with the 3rd Parachute Battalion. Hayes served a tour of duty there and first saw combat in the Bougainville Campaign.

The Marine Corps parachute units were disbanded in February 1944, and Hayes transferred to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, U.S. 5th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California. Hayes agreed to serve a second tour of duty, and sailed to Hawaii in September 1944.

Battle of Iwo Jima [link]

Hayes is pictured to the far left

On February 19, 1945, the 5th Marine Division landed on Iwo Jima. Hayes partook in the battle for the island and was among the Marines that took Mount Suribachi five days later on February 23, 1945.

The raising of the second American flag on Suribachi by five Marines: Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Mike Strank, and a Navy Corpsman, John Bradley, was immortalized by photographer Joe Rosenthal and became an icon of the war. Overnight, Hayes became a national hero, along with the two other survivors in the famous photograph, Rene Gagnon and John Bradley.

When Iwo Jima was secured by U.S. forces, Hayes was ordered to Washington, D.C. Together with the Navy Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley and Marine Private First Class Rene Gagnon, he was assigned to temporary duty with the Finance Division, U.S. Treasury Department, for appearances in connection with the Seventh War Bond Drive.^[9]

Rank and military awards [link]

Corporal
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat "V" Device
Combat Action Ribbon
Presidential Unit Citation (Ribbon only) with One 5/16" Silver Star
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with Four Bronze 3/16" Stars (for Vella Lavella, Bougainville, Consolidation of the Northern Solomons, and Iwo Jima)
World War II Victory Medal
USMC Occupation of Japan Medal
Parachutist Badge
Rifle Sharpshooter Badge

Post World War II [link]

Ira Hayes (left) with Los Angeles mayor Fletcher Bowron (1947)

After the war, Hayes attempted to lead a normal civilian life. "I kept getting hundreds of letters. And people would drive through the reservation, walk up to me and ask, 'Are you the Indian who raised the flag on Iwo Jima?'"^[10] Although he rarely spoke about the flag raising, he spoke about his service in the Marine Corps with great pride.

After returning home from the war, Hayes remained troubled that one of his friends, Harlon Block, one of the flag raisers who was killed in action days after, was mistaken for another man, Hank Hansen. Hayes later hitchhiked 1,300 miles from the Gila River Indian Community to Edward Frederick Block, Sr.'s farm in Weslaco, Texas in order to reveal the truth to Block's family. He was instrumental in having the controversy resolved, to the delight and gratitude of the Block family.

Ira Hayes appeared in the 1949 John Wayne film, Sands of Iwo Jima, along with fellow flag raisers John Bradley and Rene Gagnon. All three men played themselves in the film. Wayne hands the flag to be raised to the three men. (The actual flag that was raised on Mount Suribachi is used in the film.)

After the war, Hayes was arrested 52 times for public drunkenness.^[11] Referring to his alcoholism, he once said: "I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me."^[10]

In 1954, after a ceremony where he was lauded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a hero, a reporter approached Hayes and asked him, "How do you like the pomp and circumstance?" Hayes hung his head and said, "I don't."^[12]

Hayes' disquiet about his unwanted fame and his subsequent post-war problems were first recounted in detail by the author William Bradford Huie in The Outsider, published in 1959 as part of his collection Wolf Whistle and Other Stories. The Outsider was filmed in 1961, directed by World War II veteran turned film director Delbert Mann and starring Tony Curtis.^[13]

The 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood, suggests that Hayes suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder.

Death [link]

Ira Hayes' tombstone.

On the morning of January 24, 1955, Hayes was found dead, lying in his own blood and vomit, near an abandoned adobe hut in Sacaton, Arizona. He had been drinking and playing cards at a bar on the reservation with his friends and brothers Vernon and Kenneth. An altercation ensued between Hayes and a Pima named Henry Setoyant, and all left except Hayes and Setoyant.

The Pinal County coroner concluded that Hayes' death was caused by exposure and alcohol poisoning. However, his brother Kenneth still believes that the death resulted from the altercation with Setoyant. The Gila River Police Department did not conduct an investigation into Hayes' death and Setoyant denied any allegations of fighting with Hayes.^[14]

In the 1961 film of his life, (starring Tony Curtis) The Outsider, his death is dramatized for the screen. He is shown freezing to death on an Arizona mountain top, after a night of drinking.

Hayes is buried in Section 34, Grave 479A at Arlington National Cemetery. At the funeral, fellow flag-raiser Rene Gagnon said of him: "Let's say he had a little dream in his heart that someday the Indian would be like the white man — be able to walk all over the United States."^[15]

Commemoration [link]

On November 10, 1993, the United States Marine Corps held a ceremony at the Iwo Jima Memorial commemorating the anniversary of the Corps. Of Ira Hayes, USMC Commandant General Carl Mundy said:

One of the pairs of hands that you see outstretched to raise our national flag on the battle-scarred crest of Mount Suribachi so many years ago, are those of a Native American ... Ira Hayes ... a Marine not of the ethnic majority of our population.

Were Ira Hayes here today ... I would tell him that although my words on another occasion have given the impression that I believe some Marines ... because of their color ... are not as capable as other Marines ... that those were not the thoughts of my mind ... and that they are not the thoughts of my heart.

I would tell Ira Hayes that our Corps is what we are because we are of the people of America ... the people of the broad, strong, ethnic fabric that is our nation. And last, I would tell him that in the future, that fabric will broaden and strengthen in every category to make our Corps even stronger ... even of greater utility to our nation. That's a commitment of this commandant ... And that's a personal commitment of this Marine.

Portrayal in music, film and literature [link]

Hayes' story was immortalized in a song, "The Ballad of Ira Hayes", by Peter LaFarge. Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Smiley Bates, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Kinky Friedman, Tom Russell, Hazel Dickens, Patrick Sky, and Townes Van Zandt each covered the song. In 1964, Cash took the song to number 3 on the Billboard country music chart.^[16]
Ira Hayes appeared as himself in the 1949 John Wayne film, Sands of Iwo Jima.
In the 1960 telefilm The American, he was played by Marine veteran Lee Marvin.
Tony Curtis played Hayes in the 1961 film The Outsider.^[13]
Hayes was portrayed by Adam Beach in the 2006 movie Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie was based on the 2000 bestselling book of the same name by James Bradley and Ron Powers.
The poet Ai dedicates her poem "I Can't Get Started" to Hayes.
Ira Hayes is mentioned in the poem "Petroglyphs of Serena" by Adrian C. Louis.
Ira Hayes was also mentioned briefly in the book "Code Talker" by Joseph Bruchac.
Ira Hayes was also mentioned multiple times in the book "Indian Killer" by Sherman Alexie.

Monuments, memorials, and namings [link]

Marine Corps War Memorial (rear Marine flag raising figure), Arlington, VA
Hayes Peak, the northernmost mountain in the Sierra Estrella, Phoenix, AZ
Ira Hayes Park (statue), Sacaton, Arizona
Marine Corps League, Ira Hayes Detachment 2, Phoenix, AZ
American Legion, Ira Hayes Post 84, Sacaton, AZ

Bibliography [link]

Notes

^ Ó'Riain, Seán (2006-09-01). "An Irishman's Diary". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2006/0901/1156791312212.html.
^ "Corporal Ira Hamilton Hayes, USMCR". Who's Who in Marine Corps History. History Division, United States Marine Corps. http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Hayes_IH.htm. Retrieved 2006-09-01.
^ ^a ^b Bradley & Powers 2006, p. 38
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bradley & Powers 2006, p. 39
^ ^a ^b Bradley & Powers 2006, pp. 39–41
^ ^a ^b Bradley & Powers 2006, p. 41
^ Bradley & Powers 2006, pp. 41–42
^ Bradley & Powers 2006, p. 42
^ Video: Funeral Pyres of Nazidom, 1945/05/10 (1945). Universal Newsreels. May 10, 1945. http://www.archive.org/details/1945-05-10_Funeral_Pyres_of_Nazidom. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
^ ^a ^b Viola, Herman J.; Campbell, Ben Nighthorse (November 18, 2008). "Fighting the Metal Hats: World War II". Warriors in Uniform: The Legacy of American Indian Heroism. pp. 93–94. ISBN 978-1-4262-0361-9. http://books.google.com/?id=JYXMqa1MYNsC&pg=PA93&dq=%22Are+you+the+Indian+who+raised+the+flag+on+Iwo+Jima%22&q=%22Are%20you%20the%20Indian%20who%20raised%20the%20flag%20on%20Iwo%20Jima%22.
^ "Then There Were Two". Time (Time (magazine)). February 7, 1955. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,823714,00.html
^ Jeffers, Harry Paul (April 1, 2003). "Ira Hayes". The 100 Greatest Heroes. Citadel Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-8065-2476-4. http://books.google.com/?id=VO34DY1TRM0C&pg=PA135&dq=ira+hayes+eisenhower&q=ira%20hayes%20eisenhower.
^ ^a ^b The Outsider at the Internet Movie Database
^ Bradley & Powers 2006, p. 503
^ Chavers, Dean (2007). Modern American Indian Leaders: Their Lives and Their Work. 1. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-7734-5555-9. http://books.google.com/?id=p1t0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA243&dq=Let's+say+he+had+a+little+dream+in+his+heart+that+someday+the+Indian+would+be+like+the+white+man.
^ Cash, Johnny (1977). Cash: The Autobiography. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-072753-6. http://books.google.com/?id=N7Tk0O2naR0C. Retrieved 7 May 2010.

References

Bradley, James; Powers, Ron (2006). Flags of Our Fathers (2006 ed.). Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-58908-5. - Total pages: 576
Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story written and illustrated by S. D. Nelson, (Lee & Low Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1-58430-263-6.
The Outsider and Other Stories, by William Bradford Huie, Panther Books, GB 1961, originally published in the USA 1959, by Signet as Wolf Whistle and Other Stories

External links [link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ira Hayes

Gila River Indian Community official website
Peter LaFarge Biography
The Flag Raisers on Iwojima.com
The Outsider at the Internet Movie Database
Flags of Our Fathers - Movie

Persondata
Name	Hayes, Ira
Alternative names
Short description	United States Marine
Date of birth	January 12, 1923
Place of birth	Gila River Indian Reservation
Date of death	January 24, 1955
Place of death	Gila River Indian Reservation

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Hayes

This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.

	Biography portal
	World War II portal
	United States Marine Corps portal

van Zandt, Townes Filmography

Lyrics:

Born: ['1944-03-07']

Died: ['1997-01-01']

Make changes yourself !

Contents

Related pages:

Contents

[edit] If I

Related pages:

Contents

Related pages: