Audio CD review:
Townes Van Zandt - At My Window

Townes Van Zandt - At My Window

Band: Townes Van Zandt Title: At My Window Rating: Release Date: 01 December, 1992 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Snowin' On Raton 2: Blue Wind Blew 3: At My Window 4: For The Sake Of The Song 5: Ain't Leavin' Your Love 6: Buckskin Stallion Blues 7: Little Sundance #2 8: Still Lookin' For You 9: Gone, Gone Blues 10: The Catfish Song

Editoral Review As is usually the case with Van Zandt albums, the originals shine. The first and best album the late Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt made for Sugar Hill Records, this 1987 set mixes older material ("For the Sake of the Song") with fresh material (the instant classic "Buckskin Stallion Blues"). The funky "Ain't Leavin' Your Love" comes complete with an unlikely saxophone solo, while "Catfish Song" boasts the kind of gospel melody that marked this gentle, hard-living man as one of the finest songwriters to have ever worked in a country-folk vein. His voice--never the acquired taste of a Jimmie Dale Gilmore or Bob Dylan--had lost some of its certainty and range by this time. Fortunately, what's absent in reach is more than offset by a very appealing world-weary hue. This set features a raft of first-class supporting players, including bassist Roy Huskey Jr. , fiddler Mark O'Connor, and guitarist Mickey White. Horn accents abound in the arrangements, and the whole session hangs together in a warm, rewarding way. Van Zandt's last studio album stands as his final bona fide classic. --Robert Baird .. You can see a complete list of all Townes Van Zandt discography, or go back to the Townes Van Zandt tabs