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Van Zandt continued writing and performing through the 1990s, though his output slowed noticeably. He had enjoyed some sobriety during the early 1990s, but actively abused alcohol during his final years. In 1994, he was admitted to the hospital to detox, when a doctor told Jeanene Van Zandt that trying to detox Townes again could potentially kill him.[38] He grew increasingly frail during the mid-1990s, with friends noting that he seemed to have "withered."[39] In early 1996, he was contacted by Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, who informed Van Zandt that he was interested in recording and releasing an album for him on the band's Ecstatic Peace label, funded by Geffen.[40] Van Zandt agreed, and sessions were scheduled to begin in Memphis during late December of that year. On December 19 or 20, Van Zandt fell down the concrete stairs outside his home, badly injuring his hip.[38][41] After lying outside for an hour, he dragged himself inside and called his ex-wife Jeanene, who sent friends Royann and Jim Calvin to check on him. He told the couple that he had sustained the injury while getting out of bed, and refused medical treatment. They took him back to their home, and he spent Christmas week on their couch, unable to get up even to use the bathroom.[41] Determined to finish the album that he had scheduled to record with Shelley and Two Dollar Guitar, Van Zandt arrived at the Memphis studio being pushed in a wheelchair by road manager Harold Eggers. Shelley canceled the sessions due to the songwriter's erratic behavior and drunkenness. Van Zandt finally agreed to hospitalization, but not before returning to Nashville. By the time he consented to receive medical care, eight days had passed since the injury.[38] On December 31, X-rays revealed that Van Zandt had an impacted left femoral neck fracture in his hip, and several corrective surgeries were performed.[42] Jeanene informed the surgeon that one of Townes's previous rehab doctors had told her detoxing could kill him.[38] The medical staff tried to explain to her that detoxing a "late-term alcoholic" at home would be ill-advised, and he would have a better chance at recovering under hospital supervision.[42] She did not heed the warnings, and checked Townes out of the hospital.[43] Understanding that he would most likely drink immediately after leaving the hospital, the physicians refused to prescribe him any painkillers.[44] By the time Van Zandt was checked out of the hospital early the next morning, he had begun to show signs of delirium tremens.[38] Jeanene rushed him to her car, where she gave him a flask of vodka to ward off the withdrawal delirium. She later reported that after getting him back home to Smyrna, Tennessee, and giving him alcohol, he became "lucid, in a real good mood, calling his friends on the phone."[38] Jim Calvin shared a marijuana joint with him,[43] and he was also given about four Tylenol PM tablets.[44] While Jeanene was on the phone with Susanna Clark, their son Will noticed that Townes had stopped breathing and "looked dead", and alerted his mother, who attempted to perform CPR, "screaming his name between breaths".[38] Townes Van Zandt died in the early morning hours of January 1, 1997, at the age of 52. His official cause of death was "natural" cardiac arrhythmia.[45] Two services were held for Van Zandt: one in Texas for family, and another in a large Nashville church, attended by friends, acquaintances, and fans.[9] Some of his ashes were placed underneath a headstone in the Van Zandt family plot at the Dido Cemetery in Dido, Texas, near Fort Worth.[9][46] Legacy[edit] Legal issues over his work[edit] In the years immediately following Van Zandt's death, his former manager and label owner Kevin Eggers issued 14 albums of both new and previously unreleased material by the singer, all without consent of his estate (represented by Jeanene Van Zandt and his three children).[47] Eggers claimed a 50% interest in eighty of Van Zandt's songs. After nearly ten years of legal battles, the court sided with the estate, issuing "injunctive relief against Eggers, restraining him from reproducing or distributing any of Van Zandt's songs."[47] It was revealed through these proceedings that Van Zandt's annual income in the years before his death had climbed to over $100,000, thanks in large part to the royalties accrued from his songs being covered by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Merle Haggard, Cowboy Junkies, and other major music stars.[34] After Van Zandt's death his road manager, Harold Eggers, released video and audio recordings from the songwriter's concerts.[47] An out-of-court settlement in 2006 granted the Van Zandts conditional control of Harold Eggers' mastered recordings with Eggers retaining a 50% ownership of seven albums and some royalties for the remaining recordings.[47] On October 21, 2008, a number of Van Zandt's personal possessions were auctioned off at The Northside in Akron, Ohio at a benefit for Rex "Wrecks" Bell. Bell was a close friend and bandmate, and the inspiration for the song "Rex's Blues". Bell was also part owner of the bar Old Quarter in Houston, where Van Zandt performed the songs that would comprise the album Live at the Old Quarter. In music[edit] Van Zandt has been referred to as a cult musician and "a songwriter's songwriter."[48][49] Musician Steve Earle, who met him in 1978 and considered Van Zandt a mentor, once called Van Zandt "the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."[48][50] The quote was printed on a sticker featured on the packing of At My Window, much to Van Zandt's displeasure.[51] In the years following, the quote was often cited by the press, much to Van Zandt and Earle's embarrassment;[52] in 2009, Earle told the New York Times "Did I ever believe that Townes was better than Bob Dylan? No."[52] But he concluded at the end of the same article that, "As a songwriter, you won't find anybody better." Earle has championed the songwriter on a number of occasions: his eldest son, Justin Townes Earle, also a musician, was named after Van Zandt. Earle wrote the song "Fort Worth Blues" as a tribute to the singer in the late 1990s, and in 2009 released an album titled Townes, which featured all covers of Van Zandt songs.[52] His Texas-grounded impact stretched farther than country. He has been cited as a source of inspiration by such notable artists as Bob Dylan,[23] Neil Young,[53] Willie Nelson,[54] Guthrie Thomas, John Prine,[54] Lyle Lovett,[55] Chelsea Wolfe,[56] Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers,[57] Emmylou Harris,[54] Nanci Griffith,[54] Cowboy Junkies,[58] Vetiver,[59] Guy Clark,[54] Devendra Banhart,[60] Norah Jones,[61] Robert Plant & Alison Krauss,[62] The Be Good Tanyas and Jolie Holland,[63] Rowland S. Howard, Michael Weston King, Hayes Carll, Josh Ritter,[64] Gillian Welch,[65] Garth Brooks,[66] Simon Joyner,[67] Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes,[68] Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon,[69] Marissa Nadler,[70] Laura Marling, and Frank Turner,[71] Folk musician Shakey Graves has credited his fast-paced, rhythmic style of finger picked guitar playing partially to Van Zandt's influence.[72] In 1994, Israeli singer David Broza performed with Van Zandt during a Writers in the Round concert in Houston. When Van Zandt died, he left a shoe box full of unreleased poems and lyrics with a request that Broza set them to music. The resulting album was Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt.[73] In 2012, Van Zandt was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame.[74] In July 2012, Neurot Recordings released a three-way split album in tribute to Van Zandt, featuring Neurosis singer/guitarists Scott Kelly, Steve Von Till and doom/stoner metal legend Scott "Wino" Weinrich.[75] Two years later another similar album was released featuring John Baizley, Mike Scheidt and Nate Hall, frontmen of the bands Baroness, YOB and U.S. Christmas respectively.[76] On June 18, 2015, Van Zandt was inducted into the second year's ceremony of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, along with Asleep at the Wheel, Loretta Lynn, Guy Clark and Flaco Jimenez.[77] Gillian Welch inducted Van Zandt by telling stories about how he had come to her early gigs in Nashville and how he had bolstered her confidence in writing sad songs.[78] In an interview with The Guardian in 2016, Van Zandt was cited as being an influence to the American avant-garde metal group Neurosis.[79] In 2016, Paal Flaata released an album of only Van Zandt songs, Come Tomorrow – Songs of Townes Van Zandt. A single with the track "Come Tomorrow", where Paal Flaata sings with his daughter Maia Flaata, was released the same year. In film and television[edit] Van Zandt's Roadsongs album version of The Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers" was used during the final scene of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski. The song was included on the movie's soundtrack.[80] Since his death, Van Zandt's recordings have been licensed by his family for use in a number of films and television programs, including Stepmom, Ozark, Six Feet Under, In Bruges, Calvary, Crazy Heart, Leaves of Grass, Seven Psychopaths, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Billions, Patriot, True Detective, Euphoria (American TV Series), and Hell or High Water (Dollar Bill Blues).[81] His "Buckskin Stallion Blues" was featured in the 2017 American film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri both as his original recording and a cover by Amy Annelle.[82] In the film Country Strong, the Austin Statesman describes the character of Beau Hutton as "the next Townes Van Zandt".[citation needed] The 2012 documentary film Low & Clear, which revolves around Van Zandt's son JT fly fishing for steelhead in British Columbia with his old fishing buddy Xenie, features Van Zandt's songs.[83] Films and book[edit] In 2004, the film Be Here to Love Me,[84] chronicling the artist's life and musical career, was released in the United States. It was very well received, earning a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[85] Georgia Christgau of the Village Voice called the documentary "sympathetic but frank."[86] Eddie Cockrell of Variety called the film "a dignified and wistful look at the unusual life, difficult career and lasting influence" of Van Zandt.[87] A biography, titled To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt[88] by John Kruth, was released in 2007. It received mixed reviews, with Publishers Weekly lamenting that Kruth's "efforts are diminished by oddly alternating first- and third-person narratives, awkward transitions and text cluttered with excessive quotes... more insight into why – rather than countless tales of how – would have made this bio a more worthwhile read."[89] In April 2008, the University of North Texas Press published Robert Earl Hardy's biography on the songwriter, titled A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt,[90] which took more than eight years of research, including interviews with Mickey Newbury, Jack Clement, Guy and Susanna Clark, Mickey White, Rex Bell, Dan Rowland, Richard Dobson, John Lomax III, Van Zandt's brother and sister, cousins, his three ex-wives, and many others. The book has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a "poignant, clear and vivid portrait."[91] I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt by Brian T. Atkinson was released on New Year's Day 2012 by Texas A&M University Press, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Van Zandt's death. The book contains interviews with longtime Van Zandt friends Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Russell and Peter Rowan as well as younger disciples such as Scott Avett (the Avett Brothers), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Kasey Chambers, Josh Ritter, and Grace Potter. Van Zandt was portrayed by Charlie Sexton in the 2018 film Blaze, a biographical drama about the life of Blaze Foley. More books and movies about Townes Van Zandt were released, e.g. Harold Eggers' My Years with Townes Van Zandt and Mickey White's Another Mickey. Ruminations of a Texas Guitar Slinger (books[92]) or Without Getting Killed or Caught (movie,[93] director: Tamara Saviano). Discography[edit] Studio albums[edit] For the Sake of the Song (1968) Our Mother the Mountain (1969) Townes Van Zandt (1969) Delta Momma Blues (1971) High, Low and In Between (1971) The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972) Flyin' Shoes (1978) At My Window (1987) The Nashville Sessions (1993) No Deeper Blue (1994) Posthumous albums[edit] A Far Cry From Dead (1999) Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings (2001) In the Beginning (2003) Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971–1972 (2013) Sky Blue (2019)[94] Somebody Had to Write It (2020) Singles[edit] "Waiting Around to Die" / "Talking Karate Blues" (1968) "Second Lovers Song" / "Tecumseh Valley" (1969) "Come Tomorrow" / "Delta Mama Blues" (1971) "Greensboro Woman" / "Standin'" (1972) "If I Needed You" / "Sunshine Boy" (1972) "Honky Tonkin'" / "Snow Don't Fall" (1972) "Fraulein" / "Don't Let the Sunshine Fool Ya" (1972) "Pancho and Lefty" / "Heavenly Houseboat Blues" (1972) "Pancho and Lefty" / "If I Needed You" (1973) "Who Do You Love" / "Dollar Bill Blues" (1978) "When She Don't Need Me" / "No Place to Fall" (1978) "Dead Flowers" / "Fraulein" / "Racing in the Street" (1993) – German CD single "Riding the Range" / "Dirty Old Town" (1996) "Ain't Leavin' Your Love" (1999) – US CD single "Snowin' on Raton" (2001) – US CD single; from Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings "Highway Kind" (2002) – CD single Live albums[edit] Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (1977) – recorded July 1973 Live and Obscure (1987) – recorded 1985 Down Home & Abroad (2018) – recorded 1985/1993 Rain on a Conga Drum: Live in Berlin (1991) – recorded October 1990 Rear View Mirror (1993) – recorded in Oklahoma, 1978 Roadsongs (1993) – all cover songs, recorded late 1970s & early 1980s Abnormal (1996) – reissued in 1998 with 3 tracks replaced The Highway Kind (1997) Documentary (1997) Last Rights (1997) – alternate version of Documentary Together at the Bluebird Café (2001) – with Guy Clark and Steve Earle; recorded September 1995 In Pain (1999) – recorded 1994/1996 Live at McCabe's (2001) – recorded February 1995 A Gentle Evening with Townes Van Zandt (2002) – recorded November 1969 Absolutely Nothing (2002) – recorded 1991–1996 Acoustic Blue (2003) – recorded 1994/1996 Live at the Jester Lounge, Houston, Texas, 1966 (2004) Rear View Mirror, Volume 2 (2004) – recorded 1977–80; album credits erroneously state 1976–79 Live at Union Chapel, London, England (2005) – recorded April 1994 Houston 1988: A Private Concert (2005) Videos[edit] Heartworn Highways (1981) Be Here to Love Me (2004) Houston 1988: A Private Concert (2004) Townes Live in Amsterdam (2008) – recorded November 2, 1991 Compilations[edit] Title Album details Last Rights: The Life & Times of Townes Van Zandt Release date: June 10, 1997 Label: Gregor Records Masters Release date: November 30, 1997 Label: Eagle Rock Records Anthology: 1968–1979 Release date: August 25, 1998 Label: Charly Records The Best of Townes Van Zandt Release date: July 1, 1999 Label: Charly Records Drama Falls Like Teardrops Release date: January 1, 2002 Label: Snapper Records The Very Best of Townes Van Zandt: The Texan Troubadour Release date: June 25, 2002 Label: Metro Records Singer Songwriter Release date: October 1, 2002 Label: MI Plus Texas Troubadour Release date: November 5, 2002 Label: Snapper Records The Great Tomato Singer/Songwriter Collection Release date: February 25, 2003 Label: Tomato Music Legend Release date: October 14, 2003 Label: Snapper Records Buckskin Stallion Release date: May 23, 2006 Label: ATOM Records Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos Release date: February 5, 2013 Label: Omnivore Recordings See also[edit] List of people with bipolar disorder References[edit] .mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman} ^ a b c d e f g .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}"Townes Van Zandt - Frequently Asked Questions". 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