First Album

Townes Van Zandt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 8, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00000335Q
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,656 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. For the Sake of the Song [Original Version]

2. Tecumseh Valley [Original Version]

3. Many a Fine Lady

4. Quicksilver Daydreams of Maria [Original Version]

5. Waitin' Around to Die [Original Version]

6. I'll Be Here in the Morning [Original Version]

7. Sad Cinderella

8. The Velvet Voices

9. Talkin' Karate Blues

10. All Your Young Servants

11. Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good Townes..., April 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: First Album (Audio CD)

This album has two of TVZ's greatest, and also saddest, songs -- 'Tecumseh Valley' and 'Waiting Around to Die.' 'Tecumseh Valley' has been covered by both Nanci Griffith (in her album 'Other Voices, Other Rooms') and Steve Earle (in his album 'Train A'Comin'), but as with all TVZ songs, Townes breathes life in this song like no one else can.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amen, Lee!!, December 19, 2002

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Mark R. Emmett "markemmett" (Murray, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Album (Audio CD)

Amen to (almost) every word of Lee Charles Kelley's review (I'd take Joni Mitchell's Blue in place of the classical stuff). I knew Mr. Kelley during his disc-jockey period, and can vouch for his impeccable taste and talent. He's not very good, though, at staying in touch with old, fat friends <g>.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars First Buds of Townes van Greatness, July 19, 2002

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Lee Charles Kelley (NYC--the greaterst city in the world!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Album (Audio CD)

The first thing that strikes you about this album is the cover art by the great Milton Glaser. Beyond that, hey, the album has good songs, but they're produced with an ear to the marketplace, and that's just wrong. Luckily, Townes re-recorded some of these songs without the orchestra, etc. Still, the simple fact is, if I were stranded on a desert island and could only have ten records to take along, eight of them would be Townes van Zandt records. (The last two would be Beethoven's Seventh and Stan Getz with Antonio Carlos Jobim.) Yeah, I would miss Pet Sounds, Revolver, and Miss You by the Rolling Stones. But not when the record player was playing HIGH LOW AND IN BETWEEN< OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN< FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG< DELTA MOMMA BLUES< and the rest of the sadly cut-short catalogue of this incredible writer. Oh yeah, and I'd miss Dylan's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS and a few other trinkets, but not much. Not when I had Mr. van Zandt's music playing in my ears.