TOWNES VAN ZANDT – No Deeper Blue – LP – Vinyl DEC 6]

LP – Black Vinyl.

No Deeper Blue is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. This was Van Zandt’s first studio album of original songs newly recorded in the seven years following At My Window, and the last to be widely released before his death on New Year’s Day in 1997.

The album features fourteen brand new Van Zandt compositions. The singer’s third wife Jeanene recalls in To Live’s To Fly finding the lyrics to “A Song For” scribbled on a notepad and, after reading them, tearfully said, “Townes, this new song is so beautiful. It’s bound to be my favourite,” to which Van Zandt replied, “Song my ass…That’s a suicide note.” The album features some lighter moments, such as the comical “Billy, Boney and Ma” and the bluesy “Goin’ Down To Memphis“, and some heartfelt moments as well, with Van Zandt including lullabies to his two youngest children, “Hey Willy Boy” and “Katie Belle Blue” (the liner notes include a dedication “to John (JT), Will, and Katie Bell”). In a 1994 interview, Van Zandt explained to Aretha Sills, “One is for my wife called ‘Lovers Lullaby‘. And one I wrote for money, about Will, whos eleven. Got a phone call from a record company, said were putting together an album of lullabies. I said, ‘I’m not sure I have any lullabies.’ ‘Well, theres money in it.’ ‘Oh, Yeah! I got one. I got a good one!’

Tracklist:

1. A Song For
2. Blaze’s Blues
3. The Hole
4. Marie
5. Goin’ Down To Memphis
6. Hey Willy Boy
7. Niles River Blues
8. Billy, Boney and Ma
9. Katie Belle Blues
10. If I Was Washington
11. Lover’s Lullaby
12. Cowboy Junkies Lament
13. BW Railroad blues
14. Gone Too Long