Townes Van Zandt
Overview
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Texas Country
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-folk music
Folk music
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singer-songwriter
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, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You
If I Needed You
"If I Needed You" is a single written by Townes Van Zandt, most famously performed by American country music artists Emmylou Harris and Don Williams. Released in September 1981, it was the first single from Harris' album Cimarron. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and...
," "To Live is to Fly," and "No Place to Fall" are considered standards of their genre.
While alive, Van Zandt was labeled as a cult musician; though he had a small and devoted fanbase, he never had a successful album or single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print.
