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Townes Van Zandt
Released 1997

Tecumseh Valley
04:41
755 plays

Tower Song
03:06
594 plays

To Live Is to Fly
04:08
277 plays

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songs

- 1
- Pancho & Lefty [#]
- 04:01
- 237 plays

- 2
- If I Needed You [#]
- 02:40
- 209 plays

- 3
- For the Sake of the Song [#]
- 04:38
- 179 plays

- 4
- Our Mother the Mountain
- 02:59
- 149 plays

- 5
- To Live Is to Fly
- 04:08
- 277 plays

- 6
- Lungs
- 02:38
- 160 plays

- 7
- Flying Shoes
- 03:30
- 173 plays

- 8
- No Place to Fall
- 03:12
- 165 plays

- 9
- Dollar Bill Blues
- 02:22
- 166 plays

- 10
- White Freight Liner Blues
- 04:18
- 177 plays

- 11
- Tecumseh Valley
- 04:41
- 755 plays

- 12
- Don't You Take It Too Bad
- 03:35
- 150 plays

- 13
- Tower Song
- 03:06
- 594 plays

- 14
- Rex's Blues
- 02:23
- 177 plays

- 15
- Brother Flower
- 02:44
- 149 plays

- 16
- Waiting Around to Die
- 03:12
- 187 plays

- 17
- Colorado Girl
- 03:28
- 241 plays

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album review

In 1990, Townes Van Zandt was working on a three-CD retrospective for which he was re-recording much of his repertoire. That album never appeared, but in 1993, the tiny Austin-based Sundown label released Rear View Mirror, a 17-track album running nearly 58 minutes and containing newly recorded versions of Van Zandt songs dating back to 1968. Though a cover note claims "unique instrumentation," that seems to consist of only of an occasional second guitar and a fiddle. (Sparse applause indicates the recording had been made in a club.) Many of Van Zandt's best-known songs are included -- "Pancho & Lefty," "If I Needed You," "To Live Is to Fly," "Tecumseh Valley," and others -- and while this is not the best set of recordings of those songs, the tendency of Van Zandt's albums to go out of print might mean this is the only one you would find in your nearest record bin, in which case the album is highly recommended. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide