Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Introduction Ann Norton Holbrook Dan Better-McKenna 1
Chapter 1 Highway Kind: Townes Van Zandt's Legacy Brian T. Atkinson 13
Chapter 2 Townes Van Zandt: The Anxiety, Artifice, and Audacity of Influence Robert Earl Hardy 23
Chapter 3 "My Sorrow Is Real even though I Can't Change My Plans": Townes Van Zandt, "Dramatic" Form, and Gender Ann Norton Holbrook 35
Chapter 4 Macabre and Mirth: Two Sides of Townes Van Zandt Jim Clark 63
Chapter 5 Philosophy in a Minor Key: Townes Van Zandt and the Minor Modes Dan Beller-McKenna 79
Chapter 6 Meter as Meaning: Psychological Interpretation in Townes Van Zandt's "High, Low and In Between" Nathan Fleshner 107
Chapter 7 Shifting Time and Cinematic Images: Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and "Pancho and Lefty" Blase S. Scarnati 125
Chapter 8 "Overproduction" and Townes Van Zandt's Early Albums Travis D. Stimeling 143
Chapter 9 Mental Illness and the Reception of Townes Van Zandt in the Austin Music Scene Bruce Quaglia 163
Chapter 10 Townes in His Own Words: Excerpts from Richard Dobson's The Gulf Coast Boys 187
Introduced and edited Norie Guthrie 187
Bibliography 209
Contributors 217
Index 221