Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother The Mountain: Deluxe Edition - VINYL LP

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas is a double live album by Texas singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The recording captures Van Zandt in a series of July 1973 performances in an intimate venue and there is a strong critical consensus that this recording is among the most exemplary of Van Zandt's career. In July 1973, Van Zandt performed a string of shows over five sweltering nights at the Old Quarter club owned by Rex Bell and Dale Soffar that were recorded on a portable four track by Earl Willis, the album's producer and engineer. They would eventually be released four years later by Van Zandt's previous producer and manager Kevin Eggers on his new Tomato Records tag. The liner notes describe the recording as the InchRosetta StoneInch of Texas music. One can hear Van Zandt's influences in covers by artists like Bo Diddley, Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins, and country picker Merle Travis. Van Zandt's most famous works can also be heard, such as InchIf I Needed YouInch and InchPancho and LeftyInch played to an audience not already familiar with these songs. The singer's laconic banter and corny jokes are also on full display. The album is also noted for the intimacy of the performance, with Van Zandt taking the stage alone and accompanying himself on guitar as he did thousands of times during his career. In the 2007 biography To Live's To Fly The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, John Kruth writes that Van Zandt played Inchto nearly a hundred folks per set, packed shoulder to shoulder within the club's bare brick walls. The room was so jammed that it was impossible for a waitress to wend her way through the crowd to take drink orders. People had to pass money hand over fist and wait, in hopes that a mug of cold beer would eventually find it's way back to them.Inch Van Zandt is introduced by Dale Soffar and, after apologizing for the busted air condit

Trance - Break Out (Remaster 2024) - Break Out was recorded in December 1981 and released on 5 May 1982. The 8-minute song 'Loser' was a particular hit and brought the band their international breakthrough, with a total of 14 performances in Germany and Benelux in 1982. This made Trance the third force in the German heavy metal universe, behind only Scorpions and Accept. A total of 150,000 units of Break Out and the follow-up album Power Infusion were sold, and subsequently the band played up to 150 concerts a year, with bands like Accept and Warlock. The new edition has been remastered by Andreas 'Neudi' Neuderht, who has been a permanent member of the Trance drum kit since 2016, giving this classic even more transparency and power. In contrast to the previously available CD edition, the new edition in DigiSleeve also includes the two single tracks A Hard Way to Go and Haze in the Twilight. The 16-page booklet contains all the lyrics of the songs from the original album.

Limited gold colored vinyl LP pressing. In 2009 Steve Earle released an album of Townes Van Zandt songs. It began as solo guitar and vocal tracks recorded in October 2008 in New York City. Other instruments were added later in subsequent sessions for the album in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. Those original recordings - The Basics - are available on color vinyl for the first time.