Highway Kind

Townes Van Zandt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 18, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000000EXR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,338 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #39 in Music > Indie Music > Folk > General
  • #42 in Music > Indie Music > Country > General

Track Listings

1. Still Lookin' for You

2. Dublin Blues

3. Lost Highway

4. Lover's Lullaby

5. The Hole

6. Highway Kind

7. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle

8. No Deal

9. Blaze's Blues

10. Darcy Farrow

11. My Proud Mountains

12. Wreck on the Highway

13. Rake

14. Ira Hayes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the finest live recording from the late years..., January 10, 2001

By 

Richard R. Johnson "r-squared" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Highway Kind (Audio CD)

If you want to experience the Townes Van Zandt of strong voice and nimble guitar pickin', go straight for one of his early live recordings. However, if you want an exceptional live document from the end of Townes' career, where he "wore his skin like iron" and his "breath was hard as kerosene," then this is the cd for you. To hear the aged Townes sing a song like "Lost Highway" with its lyric "O'er a life of sin, I paid the cost," you can't help but feel like that man understood those lyrics like no other, and it's a kick in the gut. His version of "Ira Hayes" will tear you to pieces, and the song "Highway Kind" will leave you slack-jawed. It's the honesty of these recordings - warts and all - that leave me in amazement, because after all those hard years, Townes was running strictly on emotion.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars tvz's songwriting at it's starkest, August 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Highway Kind (Audio CD)

Yes, his guitar work isn't as great as is used to be, and his voice sounds downright pathetic at times, but every track on this CD is beautiful. I enjoyed this album a hell of a lot more than _A Far Cry from Dead_ because of its starkness. A Far Cry... just seemed to slick for TVZ. I think this album captures the real essence of his work.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars real music for real people, March 3, 2001

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ron sterzinger (MINNEAPOLIS MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Highway Kind (Audio CD)

townes is probably the greatest folk-contry blues artist of all time. his voice as well as his songs are so sad and sorrowful. two songs that i love the most are dublin blues and lookin for you. if you like the blues or want to hear real country instead of the shlock that is called popularly country today you must do yourself a favorite and listen to this. when the woman i loved started cheatin on me this c-d saved me...'nuff said