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“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

By now, the name Townes Van Zandt stands as a relic of the past; a reminder of the gloriously gritty, cigarette smoking, whiskey-fueled days of country and folk music.  Though never achieving much commercial success, while alive he developed a cult following and wrote some of the best songs the genre has ever seen.  In death, his stature has risen immensely.  He and his work are the stuff of legend.  In the beautifully directed 2004 documentary Be Here To Love Me, interviews with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Joe Ely, Guy Clark, Kris Kristofferson, and yes, Steve Earle, tell a tale of a man who was gone too soon, but certainly not forgotten.  The whole thing is up for streaming over at Pitchfork for “One Week Only.”  Combining rare archival footage and intimate interviews with friends and family, the film provides great insight into just how important the man was to his songwriting peers, and how great of a loss his passing was.

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