Born March 7, 1944, in Fort Worth, Texas, legendary singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt would have turned 82 today.

Townes Van Zandt always wished that this country legend would cover one of his songs from his 1969 debut, but it never ...

Townes Van Zandt's name conjures tales of drug and alcohol abuse, gambling, rambling and mental illness. That mythic life sometimes overshadows his music, which was often as perfect as his life was ...

Early in Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, Margaret Brown‘s seminal 2004 documentary on the Texas songwriter, Van Zandt’s first wife, Fran Petters, recalls a doctor’s note he received ...

Friends and former bandmates testify to the wild charisma and quicksilver poetry of renegade singer-songwriter Townes Van ...

If you’re not familiar with Townes Van Zandt, let me catch you up. Often considered the best singer-songwriter to come out of Texas, Van Zandt’s material has been covered by the veritable royalty of ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Townes Van ...

Maybe you know Townes Van Zandt as the drunken cult hero. Or maybe you know him as the broken folk singer that sealed his mouth shut huffing airplane glue, the country outlaw, the reckless junky, the ...

On Friday, Nov. 15, multimedia artist and musician Birdthrower–the artistic moniker of Robert O. Leaver–teamed up with Ben Harper for a collaborative cover of Townes Van Zandt’s classic “If I Needed ...

Evan Dando, the only permanent member of fuzz-pop institution the Lemonheads, was one of the great lovable wastrels of the '90s alt-rock boom. He's had a bumpy ride over the decades. The last time we ...