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Article: Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings. (Off the Beaten Track). (sound recording review)
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- January 1, 2002
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country
Recordings
Tomato 2001
Together At The Bluebird Cafe was recorded September 13, 1995 at Nashville's fabled Bluebird Cafe, during one of the venue's trademark sing-arounds. This has to have been one of the most magical nights ever in that little room as amigos Steve Earle, Guy Clark and the late, great Townes Van Zandt traded songs. Since all three are as good as Texas songwriters get, the show had to be a gem. All three were in rare form and most congenial. I must consider the album's release a lagniappe.
Even more so is Townes Van Zandt's Texas Rain. Tomato's Kevin Eggers convened these sessions in ...