TOWNES VAN ZANDT - For The Sake Of The Song (VMP Reissue with Art Print) - LP - Midnight Blue Vinyl [NOV 22]

LP - Limited Edition Midnight Blue Vinyl with exclusive liner notes booklet and 12x12 art print housed in a tip-on sleeve.

Townes Van Zandt’s work, as far-reaching and as universal as it has become, begs for possessorship. It’s a love language understood by all who find it, yet one that remains acutely difficult to translate to those who haven’t.

No one understood this better than his earliest fans. It’s 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 LP’s 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