Rear Enz

Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror (1993) {Sugar Hill Records SHCD-1054 rel 1997}
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© 1993, 1997 Van Zandt / Eggers / Sugar Hill Records| SHCD-1054
Folk / Country / Folk Rock / Acoustic / Progressive Country

This reissue of a 1993 live album was never intended to memorialize Townes Van Zandt (in the saddest of posthumous ironies, its Sugar Hill sleeve includes a phone number to call for bookings), but it'll do for now. Originally released by Sundown, a tiny Austin indie with limited distribution, the 17-song set finds Van Zandt in fine form – upbeat, gracious, apparently sober – and in good company, with fiddler Owen Cody and guitarist Danny Rowland adding a dimension of musical enhancement that never overwhelms the nuances of the material. As anyone who ever saw Van Zandt fall off a stool recognizes, there was no such thing as a typical Townes performance, but when he was good, no one working in the Texas troubadour tradition has ever been better.