On March 7, 1944, Townes Van Zandt entered this world for what would be a too-short journey across the world, sharing his melancholy and profound songs, each their own masterclass lesson in ...

Today, we look at Townes Van Zandt's classic 'Pancho and Lefty,' which was famously covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. A great song has many lives, especially when it gets recorded by ...

But we, my son, we’re called something else ... In the census of the year 6 A.D., Jesus Christ was not yet born. In the year 33, Townes Van Zandt grows morning glories in the garden. In front of the ...

Townes Van Zandt spent much of his last decade revisiting the masterful odes to loss, melancholy and America's frontier history he'd etched in his earlier career. Bloody vendettas ("The Hole ...