TOWNES VAN ZANDT – For The Sake Of The Song (VMP Reissue with Art Print) – LP – Midnight Blue Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition Midnight Blue Vinyl with exclusive liner notes booklet and 12×12 art print housed in a tip-on sleeve.

Townes Van Zandts work, as far-reaching and as universal as it has become, begs for possessorship. Its a love language understood by all who find it, yet one that remains acutely difficult to translate to those who havent.

No one understood this better than his earliest fans. Its perhaps why his first studio album, For the Sake of the Song, remains a point of controversy among anyone who discovered Townes Van Zandt outside of these LPs grooves. Townes Van Zandt the songwriter was the antithesis of bells and whistles, and so an album with such accoutrements, as this album has in spades, rings false however unfairly among purists. Taken in context, though, For the Sake of the Song is a gorgeous study in polarity. Each anchor is an artist from wildly different backgrounds, united under the profound effect of songcraft.

Tracklist:

A1 For The Sake Of The Song
A2 Tecumseh Valley
A3 Many A Fine Lady
A4 Quick Silver Daydreams Of Maria
A5 Waitin’ Around To Die

B1 I’ll Be Here In The Morning
B2 Sad Cinderella
B3 The Velvet Voices
B4 Talkin’ Karate Blues
B5 All Your Young Servants
B6 Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls