When I first heard Townes Van Zandt I pretty much had these two songs on repeat...
Love the dark, phantasmagorical atmosphere to the music and lyrics. Feels like a dream of a ghost story, or a ghost story that makes you think you must have dreamed it.
Just so nihilistic and relentlessly melancholy. The man instinctively knew how to tear out your heartstrings.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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