«One way to measure a songwriter is to look at the singers who sing their songs. Townes van Zandt has had some of the best – Neil Young, John Prine, Norah Jones, Gillian Welch, Robert Plant, Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris and hundred of others. Another way to measure a songwriter is – are their songs still being sung? Townes’s are. Every night – in small clubs, in lonely bedrooms and wherever the brokenhearted watch the shadows grown long» – Bob Dylan, 2022
Who is John Townes Van Zandt : (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as “Pancho and Lefty“, “For the Sake of the Song“, “If I Needed You“,
