Townes Van Zandt - Flyin Shoes LP merch if someone told you that

if someone told you that this was released in 1986 on Mortarhate

The open high E and B strings on the guitar ring out virtually the entire time

but with enough hook lines that I catch myself wanting to sing along

Recording from the early 70s til his death in the late 90s Shepard's music fits into the Midwest post-hippie/proto-punk zone of MX80 Sound

Unlike the hyper-punk-charged pastiche of Big Cheap Motel

Townes Van Zandt - Flyin Shoes LP merch if someone told you thatNo secret that Townes knew his way around a song pretty comfortably, and Flyin Shoes has got some of his finest on it (Rexs Blues, No Place To Fall, Loretta). But I cant help being caught out by some of the band arrangements. Intricate backing vocals, pedal steel, electric piano etc. seems par for the course for 1970s folk country records. Weirder yet are the occasional overdriven guitar moments or the wigged out psychedelic vocal effect of Dollar