Fat Possum Records, 2019

I: How come most of your songs are sad songs?

TVZ: Well I don't think they are all that sad … I have a few that aren't sad, they are hopeless. And the rest aren't sad, that's just the way it goes … You don't think life is sad?

But from recognizing the sadness you can put it aside and be happy and enjoy the happy side of life. Blues is happy music…

Po skoraj petdesetih letih nastanka prvič slišane pesmi in demo posnetki trubadurja teksaških puščav in pesnika življenjskih bolečin.

"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." - Steve Earle