Most singer-songwriters spend their entire career seeking out a truth worth writing about. For Townes Van Zandt, that truth seeped right out of his drug-laced veins and into his prolific musical ...

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 ...

Eulogizing a friend isn’t an easy task, especially when you’re trying to do it within the confines of a song. The degree of difficulty rises when you’re attempting to sum up someone as talented and ...