A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series) Summary and Reviews

A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
by Robert Earl Hardy

A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
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Author: Robert Earl Hardy
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-06
ISBN: 1574412477
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: University of North Texas Press

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Book Review: A Deeper View
Summary: 5 Stars

This beautifully-conceived biography of legendary songwriter Townes Van Zandt sidesteps myth to create a vivid and complex portrait of the troubled poetic genius. From the assured hands of musician and music-writer Robert Earl Hardy, the book gives both a passionate and a compassionate telling of Van Zandt's tumultuous life and the searing creative journey that resulted in such unforgettable songs as "Pancho and Lefty," "Waiting 'Round to Die" and "Marie," among others. Van Zandt's wrenching lyrics are viewed with a musician's knowing eyes, allowing the reader to be taken more deeply into the music and heart that created it. Hardy also does a sensitive job of balancing various accounts of Van Zandt's story, leaving the reader to find her or his way to some kind of truth about this heatbreaking life. An auspicious first entry in the University of North Texas Press' new series "Lives of Musicians," the book stands easily on its own merits, and will also make a fitting companion piece for UNT Press' second book in the series: Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley, a memoir about Van Zandt's running mate and fellow songwriter, Blaze Foley, due out in October 2008 and written, as it turns out, by me.

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