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For The Sake Of The Song
''For the Sake of the Song'' is the debut studio album by country singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in 1968. The majority of the songs, including the title track, "Tecumseh Valley", "(Quicksilver Daydreams of) Maria", "Waitin' Around to Die", and "Sad Cinderella", were re-recorded in more stripped-down versions for subsequent studio albums. Background ''For the Sake of the Song'' would be the flagship release on Poppy Records, a label operated by Keven Eggers, with whom Van Zandt would have a long and complex professional relationship. According to John Kruth's book ''To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt'', Eggers first heard Van Zandt's song "Tecumseh Valley" when producer Jack Clement played a demo of it recorded at a Houston recording studio in 1966, with Eggers marveling, "I thought it was an absolute classic song. When I heard it I said, 'This is a brilliant songwriter.' I told Jack right then and there that I would sign Townes and ma ...
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Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter."Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt: Review"
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He wrote numerous songs, such as "", " For the Sake of the Song", "", "Snake Mountain Blues", "Our Mother the Mountain", "Waitin' Round to Die", and ...
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Simon And Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo comprising the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music acts of the 1960s. Their most famous recordings include three US number-one singles — "The Sound of Silence" and the two Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year Grammy Awards, Grammy winners "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Water (song), Bridge over Troubled Water"— as well as "Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel song), Homeward Bound", "I Am a Rock", "Scarborough Fair (ballad)#Simon & Garfunkel version, Scarborough Fair/Canticle", "A Hazy Shade of Winter", "America (Simon & Garfunkel song), America", "The Boxer" and "Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel song), Cecilia". Simon and Garfunkel met in elementary school in Queens, New York City, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize and Simon began writing songs. As teenagers, under the name Tom & Jerry, they had minor success with "Hey Schoolgirl" (195 ...
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