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Other Songs A song for Aint leavin your love All I Need [Sky Blue Version] All Your Young Servants At my window At My Window f/ Kathy Mattea Be Here To Love Me Big Country Blues Billy Boney and Ma Black Crow Blues Black Jack Mama Black Widow Blues Blazes blues Blue Ridge mountains Blue Ridge Mtns. (Smoky Version) [Sky Blue Version] Blue wind blew Brand New Companion Brother Flower Brother Flower f/ Kimmie Rhodes Buckskin stallion blues BW railroad blues Catfish song Cocaine Blues Colorado Bound Colorado Girl Columbine Come Tomorrow Cowboy junkies lament Dead Flowers Delta mama blues Delta Moma Blues Dollar Bill Blues Dont let the sunshine fool ya Dont you take it too bad Dream Spider [Sky Blue Version] Dublin Blues Fare thee well Miss Carousel FFV Ffv (Trad.) Flyin Shoes For The Sake Of The Song Forever, For Always, For Certain [Sky Blue Version] Fraternity Blues Fraulein Goin down to Memphis Gone gone blues Gone too long Greensboro woman Gypsy Friday Heavenly Houseboat Blues Hey Willie boy Hey Willy Boy High, Low and in Between High Low and In-Between Highway Kind Honky tonkin Hunger Child Blues If I Needed You If I Needed You f/ Emmylou Harris If I was Washington Ill Be Here In The Morning Kathleen Katie Belle Katie Belle blue Last Thing on My Mind Like a summer thursday Loretta Lovers lullaby Lungs Many a fine a lady Many a Fine Lady Marie Marie f/ Willie Nelson Maryetta's Song Mr Gold and Mr Mud Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold My proud mountains Niles river blues Nine pound hammer No Deal No Lonesome Tune No Place to Fall None But The Rain Nothin Old Shep Only Him or Me Our Mother The Mountain Pancho And Lefty Pancho and Lefty f/ Freddy Fender Pancho & Lefty Poncho & Lefty Pueblo waltz (Quicksilver daydreams of) Maria Rake Rexs blues Sad cinderella Sanitarium Blues Second lovers song She came and she touched me Short-Haired Woman Blues Silver Ships Of Andilar Sixteen summers fifteen falls Sky Blue [Sky Blue Version] Snake Mountain Blues Snake Song Snow Dont Fall Snowin on Raton Squash St. John The Gambler Standin Still looking for you Talkin karate blues Talking KKK Blues Talking thunderbird blues Talking Thunderbird Wine Blues Tecumseh Valley Texas River Song The Coo Coo The Highway Kind The hole The silver ships of Andilar The spider song The Velvet Voices To Live Is to Fly To Live's to Fly Tower Song Turnstyled Junkpiled Two girls Two Girls f/ Doug Sahm Two hands Upon my soul Velvet voices Waitin' Around to Die Waitin' for the Day Waitin' Round to Die Waiting Around To Die When He offers his hand When She Dont Need Me When Your Dream Lovers Die Where I Lead Me White Freight Liner Blues White Freightliner Blues Why shes acting this way You Are Not Needed Now
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John Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "For the Sake of the Song", "If I Needed You", "Snake Mountain Blues", "Our Mother the Mountain", "Waitin' Round to Die", and "To Live Is to Fly". His musical style has often been described as melancholic and features rich, poetic lyrics. During his early years, Van Zandt was respected for his guitar playing and fingerpicking ability.

Much of Van Zandt's life was spent touring various bars, music clubs, colleges, and folk venues and festivals, often lodging in motel rooms or the homes of friends. He suffered from drug addiction and alcoholism, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. When he was young, the now-discredited insulin shock therapy erased much of his long-term memory.

In 1983, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered and popularized Van Zandt's song "Pancho and Lefty", reaching number one on the Billboard country music chart. Van Zandt's influence has been cited by countless artists across multiple genres and his music has been recorded or performed by Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Merle Haggard, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Counting Crows, Steve Earle, Whitey Morgan, Rodney Crowell, Robert Earl Keen Jr., Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Wade Bowen, Gillian Welch, Richard Buckner, Pat Green, Colter Wall, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Jason Isbell, Calvin Russell, Natalie Maines, Jason Molina, Kevin Morby, Stephen Duffy, Doc Watson, Cowboy Junkies, Frank Turner, Rowland S. Howard, Tindersticks, Cave In, Amenra, Charley Crockett, Tyler Childers and Marissa Nadler.

Van Zandt died on New Year's Day 1997 from cardiac arrythmia caused by health problems stemming from years of substance abuse. A revival of interest in Van Zandt blossomed in the 2000s. During the decade, two books, a documentary film (Be Here to Love Me), and numerous magazine articles were written about him.
Birth Name: John Townes Van Zandt
Born: March 7, 1944 in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Died: January 1, 1997 (at age of 52) in Smyrna, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre(s): Country, folk, blues, country blues
Instrument(s): Guitar, vocals
Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter
Active From: 1965-1996
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