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Article: High, low, and in between.(A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt )(Book review)
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- Texas Books in Review
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- September 22, 2008
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A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008. 300 pp. $24.95 cloth)
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Robert Earl Hardy's biography of the late Townes Van Zandt, A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt, is an excellent look at the complex and troubled life of one of the most compelling songwriters to emerge from the fertile Texas musical landscape. Hardy's work enhances John Kruth's 2007 biography To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt with a more scholarly and focused effort. After almost a decade of research, including conducting numerous ...