Album
Sky Blue
2019 · Folk, World, & Country
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Sky Blue is a Folk album by Townes Van Zandt, originally released in 2019. On Gatefold: 6 pressings tracked.
About
A collection of previously unreleased recordings released on what would have been Townes' 75th birthday. The recordings were made in early 1973 with the late Bill Hedgepeth, a journalist, musician, and most crucially a close friend of Townes. These versions of “Pancho & Lefty” and “Rex’s Blues” show these songs as early drafts: raw, sorrowful, and as stunningly moving as he ever was, full of clean flat-picking and adept flourishes in just the right places. In addition to a handful of old favorites, Sky Blue also includes two new songs that have never been heard before—”All I Need” and “Sky Blue”—as well as covers of songs by Richard Dobson and Tom Paxton. There is a smoky version of “Blue Ridge Mountain Blues” and a scarred and scarring interpretation of “Hills of Roane County,” an East Tennessee murder ballad from the 1880s that was popularized by Tony Rice.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1All I Need2:52
- A2Rex's Blues2:15
- A3The Hills Of Roane County3:53
- A4Sky Blue2:34
- A5Forever, For Always, For Certain2:28
- A6Blue Ridge Mtns. (Smoky Version)2:58
Side B
- B7Pancho & Lefty3:54
- B8Snake Song2:08
- B9Silver Ship of Andilar5:30
- B10Dream Spider1:57
- B11Last Thing On My Mind3:42
Sound DNA
- Folk
- Singer-Songwriter
- stripped-back
- melancholic
- confessional
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Townes Van ZandtGUITAR, VOCALS
- A Nameless HippieBANJO
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 6 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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