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合計収録時間 | 01:05:17

Includes liner notes by Susanna Clark. POET: A TRIBUTE TO TOWNES VAN ZANDT was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Marie" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. Tributee: Townes Van Zandt. POET: A TRIBUTE TO TOWNES VAN ZANDT features sensitive, true-to-the-artist treatments of Van Zant's better-known poetic masterpieces as well as a few rare gems. His hits "Poncho and Lefty," sung slowly and deliberately by Delbert Mc Clinton, and "To Live Is to Fly," soulfully reworked by long-time friend Guy Clark, are here. The lesser-known "Nothin'," off Van Zandt's 1971 DELTA MAMA BLUES, is given a blues-soaked, tortured reading by Lucinda Williams, and "Our Mother the Mountain," off his acclaimed sophomore breakthrough, MY PROUD MOUNTAIN, is done with true Van Zandt understatement by his son JT. Like that of any gifted songwriter, the artist's work fares well in interpretation, but it's hard to beat his own somber, grief-inflected versions. These attempts, by some of the best in the business (Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Steve Earle among them), hold up, in part because they stay so close to the artist's own arrangements.

エディション | Reissue

録音 | ステレオ (Studio)