Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt gave American songwriting a voice of fatalism, dry humour, and fragile melodic beauty. The singer-songwriter from the USA wrote Pancho and Lefty, If I Needed You, To Live Is to Fly, and other songs that became central to folk and country repertoires. His tag connects folk, roots music, and the austere craft of the lyric ballad.

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  Pancho and Lefty: gangster song that saved Townes Van Zandt from a speeding ticket

  Pancho and Lefty is perhaps the best-known song of American songwriter Townes Van Zandt released on his sixth studio...