April 22nd 2025
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Re: April 22nd 2025
Hey, the Rockies won their last game. Oh, but they are still last place stinking up the league. Piss.

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Re: April 22nd 2025
If Bob Dylan was the one singing about Colorado, Jason would drop Townes like a bad habit.

Re: April 22nd 2025
His Colorado songs are pretty decent. It's his songwriting in general that is out of this world. He taps into the depressive mind in his lyrics and combines it with the music in ways that nobody else really did. For my money, at least. He was much too raw to be commercialized and that's largely why he was never a household name. His music is absolutely not for the faint of heart. You can't make music like he did without being in a terribly depressive and dark place, and it was clear he lived like that his whole life. Totally burdened by depression, but we got incredible music out of it.Reign in Blood wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 10:08 amIf Bob Dylan was the one singing about Colorado, Jason would drop Townes like a bad habit.
I only compare him to Bob Dylan because I watched a documentary on him after he died and musicians from that era always said his writing was similar but far superior to Dylan, which is what Dylan was largely praised for.
Edit:
I often share jams with buddies that pertain to shit they're dealing with or going through, but I will never introduce them to Townes. If you listen to his music intently and you're in a bit of a sad or dark place it can really drag you into the deep waters with him. He and Bruce are probably the greatest songwriters of all time if I were to put a personal list out there.


Re: April 22nd 2025
i'll have to listen to townes van zandt.
Re: April 22nd 2025
His sound is southern, rednecky, backwoods country type stuff, largely. It's one of those deals where his sound is not gonna be for everyone, but the lyrics are undeniable.
Oddly enough, I began listening to his stuff when I heard one of his songs featured at the end of a True Detective episode. Looked it up on youtube. Eventually heard another... heard another... and was blown away.
If the sound isn't your style, he might not work for you. But then again, it might change a little bit of the way you listen to music. He did for me.


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Re: April 22nd 2025
I ain't feeling no Ventura Highway or Sister Golden Hair surprise up in that bitch with him.

Re: April 22nd 2025
You're not supposed to.Reign in Blood wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:01 pm I ain't feeling no Ventura Highway or Sister Golden Hair surprise up in that bitch with him.



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Re: April 22nd 2025
Right off some of his playing and voice seemed America-ish. And there ain't no better song about depression than a young lad broken down by Sister Golden Hair, that hussy bitch.Jason wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:02 pmYou're not supposed to.Reign in Blood wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:01 pm I ain't feeling no Ventura Highway or Sister Golden Hair surprise up in that bitch with him.![]()

Re: April 22nd 2025
What song(s) did you sample of his?Reign in Blood wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:04 pmRight off some of his playing and voice seemed America-ish. And there ain't no better song about depression than a young lad broken down by Sister Golden Hair, that hussy bitch.Jason wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:02 pmYou're not supposed to.Reign in Blood wrote: ↑Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:01 pm I ain't feeling no Ventura Highway or Sister Golden Hair surprise up in that bitch with him.![]()


Re: April 22nd 2025
i listened to poncho and lefty, lungs, and if i needed you. lungs is the best of the three.
Re: April 22nd 2025
Lungs is the one I heard in True Detective.




Re: April 22nd 2025
Here's one kind of the same style as Lungs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pv8tYT3HCj4
Here's a nice love song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ymIi4hBXs
Here's one of hopeless despair
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5p6PkYuvVpY


Re: April 22nd 2025
it's good stuff. he feels more introspective less political than what i've heard of bob dylan. both have their place.
Re: April 22nd 2025
Yeah. I'd say that's exactly right.
What was Joan Baez like in the Dylan movie? She had to have had a role in it I imagine


Re: April 22nd 2025
Very well done portrayal
