I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt

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notes The quote in the book epigraph is from Bill Flanagan, “Ragged Company,” Musician, August 1995. Foreword 1. “Cowboy” Jack Clement, interview with author, January 9, 2011. Preface 1. Brian T. Atkinson, “Townes Van Zandt’s Sixth Annual Wake, Old Quarter (Galveston, TX), January 1, 2003,” No Depression, March-April 2003, 21; for more on Hayes Carll’s dexterity as a live performer, see Brian T. Atkinson , “Hayes Carll, The Continental Club, Austin, TX, May 12,” Maverick Country , August-September 2006, 25–26; and Brian T. Atkinson, “Role Models: Fred Eaglesmith,” American Songwriter, November–December 2007, 114. 2. Hayes Carll, “I’ve Got a Gig,” Trouble in Mind, Lost Highway Records, 2008. 3. Atkinson, “Townes Van Zandt’s Sixth Annual Wake,” No Depression. 4. Hayes Carll, interview with author, October 19, 2010; for more on Hayes Carll’s development as a songwriter, see Brian T. Atkinson, “4 To Watch For,” Paste, December–January 2004, 70; Brian T. Atkinson, “Hayes Carll: ‘Everybody’s Talkin’,” No Depression, March–April 2005, 28; Brian T. Atkinson , “Hayes Carll: Little Rock,” American Songwriter, March–April 2005, 61; Brian T. Atkinson, “Hayes Carll Q&A,” Texas Music, Spring 2008, 22, 25–27; Brian T. Atkinson, “CD Review: Hayes Carll, Featured in iTunes This Week,” www.austin360.com, March 28, 2008 (accessed February 13, 2011); and Brian T. Atkinson, “Everything Is Relative in Holiday Song,” Austin AmericanStatesman , December 27, 2009, G2; Brian T. Atkinson, “Hayes Carll: KMAG YOYO Review,” Lone Star Music, January–February 2011, 45. 5. Townes Van Zandt, “Tecumseh Valley,” For the Sake of the Song, Poppy Records, 1968. 208 noTeS To PAGeS 1-3 Introduction 1. Brian T. Atkinson, “Be Here to Love Me Review,” Relix, February 2006. 2. Rodney Crowell, interview with author, June 19, 2004. “The last four or five times I saw him, he just wasn’t that electric cowboy that he was before ,” Crowell said. “That always made me really sad”; Townes Van Zandt, “Still Lookin’ for You,” At My Window, Sugar Hill Records, 1987. 3. Brian T. Atkinson, “To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt Review,” American Songwriter, March–April 2007, 100; For a brief overview of Van Zandt’s life and career, see John McVey, “John Townes Van Zandt,” in Roy Barkley, ed., The Handbook of Texas Music (Texas State Historical Association, 2003), 338–40; For more detailed accounts of the singer-songwriter, see John Kruth, To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (New York: Da Capo Press, 2007) and Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008). 4. Billy Joe Shaver, interview with Richard Skanse, May 2001. 5. Stewart Francke, “Townes Van Zandt Interview,” Contemporary Musician , December 7, 1992. 6. For critical praise of Townes Van Zandt, see William Hedgepeth, “Messages from the Outside,” Hittin’ the Note, May 1977; Roxy Gordon, “Townes Van Zandt Might Be Arriving,” Omaha Rainbow, April 1977; Richard Wootton and Scott Giles, “Townes Van Zandt,” Omaha Rainbow, December 1977; Robert Palmer, “A Hard Road, Seldom Taken,” New York Times, June 7, 1987; Neil Strauss, “Townes Van Zandt, Singer and Influential Songwriter, 52,” New York Times, January 3, 1997; Michael Corcoran, “Townes Van Zandt, a Songwriter’s Songwriter, Dead at 52,” Austin American-Statesman, January 4, 1997; Mark Brend, “The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt,” Record Collector, February 2002, 48–53; Holly Gleason, “Legends: Townes Van Zandt,” American Songwriter, January–February 2010; for a critical analysis of Townes Van Zandt’s entire discography, see Brian T. Atkinson, “Mr. Record Man: Townes Van Zandt,” Lone Star Music, January–February 2011, 58–60; Brian T. Atkinson, “Hank 3 Talks Towns and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame,” www .austin360.com, August 19, 2011 (accessed August 24, 2011). 7. Willie Nelson, interview with Richard Skanse, May 2001. 8. For more on the impact Townes Van Zandt’s reclusive behavior had on his career, see Dorothy Palmer, “Recluse Ready to Share His Music with Arkansas,” Arkansas Gazette, November 11, 1981, 28. 9. David Gritten, “Steve Earle Interview for the Album Townes,” Daily Telegraph, June 2, 2009. noTeS To PAGeS 3-9 209 10. Jesse Dayton, interview with author, November 5, 2008. 11. Michelle Shocked, interview with author, October 19, 2009; for more on the Kerrville Folk Festival, see Barkley, The Handbook of Texas Music, 174–75; for more on Townes Van...