Townes Van Zandt
Autonomes kulturzentrum
Wuerzburg, Germany

19th November 1996

Audience recording: Sony ECM959 (90 degrees)-> Sony DAT D7

DAT Master, transferred to 16bit/48 kHz, downsampled to 44.1kHz for burning to CD

DAT Cassette > Pioneer D-05 > Hucht > Tascam SS-R1 Compact Flash Card
> PC > Samplitude 11 > Track splitting > Normalisation > Click 'n Crackle

First installment of a new batch of Townes recordings (6) fellow dimer traink sent me. He recorded Townes a couple of times
in Germany in the ninetees. A few of these recorings are his own masters, a few are traded copies on DAT.

This project is a true team effort: traink provided the tapes and handed them over a few weeks ago at In The Woods. Not only did he give me these Townes tapes,
he also included Eric Taylor and Chris Smither.
I brought the tapes to reelclasio, who still has working DAT recorders. Moreover he's one of the better tapers of the Netherlands. He did a 16/48 transfer
and sent me the raw files and a quickly edited version. Fredtaper did the final editing.
I coordinated the project, split a few files that had more than one song, adapted the setlist and made covers. Finally I shared them on Dime.

The recordings I'll share are either new into circulation or fresh transfers of shows that are circulating, making them an upgrade.

This one is new into circulation. It's possible traink traded it long ago, but I've never seen it on collectors lists.

This show took place a few weeks before Townes' death during the tour that never should have happened. These shows are painful to listen to and Townes is a
shadow of the artist he was. I was prepared for the worst, but I must admit the show was better than I had expected. Sure, he's clearly drunk, but I have heard worse
shows from this period. Even in this state the trilogy Marie-> Waiting Around o Die-> A Song For is impressive.

As any Townes is essential for collectors this is a must have. For this reason I won't include samples, but take it from me the sound quality is good.
If you're new to Townes start with shows from his earlier period.

Disc One
1. Intro
2. Broke Down Engine/My Starter Won't Start/Goin' Down To Memphis <Blind Willie McTell/Lightning Hopkins/TVZ>
3. Loretta
4. Katie Belle Blue
5. Dollar Bill Blues
6. Banter & jokes
7. Pancho And Lefty
8. Buckskin Stallion Blues
9. Banter & jokes
10. Blaze's Blues-> banter
11. Tecumseh Valley-> Dead Flowers <Richards/Jagger> -> Tecumseh Valley

Disc Two
1. Banter
2. Snowin' On Raton
3. Banter
4. Sanitarium Blues
5. Marie-> Waiting Around To Die-> A Song For
6. Banter & jokes
7. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes <Peter LaFarge>
8. Banter & joke
9. If I Needed You
10. Colorado Girl

TT 01:40:30

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