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Permalink Reply by Thorsten Hinrichsen on June 26, 2012 at 8:38am

Ron. This is fantastic. My personal favourite so far (and there are many outstanding TVZ-covers). The melancholy that comes through your voice is over the top. Can't wait for the complete album!!!

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 26, 2012 at 5:34pm

Thorsten,

 

Many thanks! I hope I was also able to inject some humor in with the melancholy. When I first head this, I wondered about the minor key, because just reading the lyrics cracked me up. That'sTownes for you ;-).

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Permalink Reply by Letha Allen on June 24, 2012 at 1:28pm

Wow, I have missed a lot! Got a great new grandson, and then came home to no internet. Just got it back and was told a storm must have taken out the modem. Sure did miss it, and look forward to hearing the TVZ tracks!

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 24, 2012 at 11:33pm

Hey RTZ, Hey Letha!

 

Thanks for the kudos, y'all. I really enjoyed singin' that one. Really had to listen to Townes over and over to pick up a melody line, because he was pretty frail and quavery when he recorded this; was closer to a talking blues the way he did it. I am so very happy this has become a semi-global project, and am equally pleased that both of you, and everyone else has been a part of it.

 

Congrats on your new grandson!

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Permalink Reply by Letha Allen on June 27, 2012 at 5:31pm

Hi Strat,

Thank you for including me, and for all the work I can see that you are doing to organize this project. Can't wait to hear it!

 

 

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on June 30, 2012 at 7:43pm

 Ron,  I just want to join Letha in saying THANK YOU for putting your time, effort and imagination into this project. I have not recorded in 2 years or put pen to paper in sometime, the wide range of styles on this is really cool and inspirational far beyond Townes music. WELL DONE OILY.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 30, 2012 at 9:05pm

I appreciate the thanks, but wait until you hear the whole thing :-) I'm working with Dan Sleep right now to get a site / folder where I can send him the zip file so it can be downloaded from the Nation. Problem is, we have a 12-15 hour time lag between question and response :-). But we're getting there. I'm still arranging tracks so that there's not too much similarity between songs / keys / styles, and I have to place a Tecumseh Valley version towards the beginning and the end so they're not back to back...also, because of the different recordings, I have  to equalize the volumes on all the final tracks, get 'em numbered in sequence and tagged properly, things like that. I'm also going to include lyrics sheets as a Word doc, so that anyone else can see 'em with the download. And I'm trying to do this while working, and preparing for a summer of flights, trains and different baseball venues. We just had our Little League baseball all star travel team banquet last night, and I had to help my wife with the slide show, photos, music, etc. She did a fantastic job! I really do appreciate y'alls patience with me on this; it's the usual logistical cleanup details after all the creativity. But it's coming. Real soon now.

 

I'm just glad that it has inspired everyone to contribute, show off their stuff, maybe get the creative juices flowing again.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 3, 2012 at 5:49pm

Hey, y'all!

 

Well, the album is finished! Woo Hoo! Just wanted to let y'all know, the reason you haven't seen the download yet is a combination of factors. Dan Sleep and I spent a good portion of yesterday e-mailing back and forth, first trying to get the zip file from my computer to his. We finally got that worked out, he checked it, and loaded it to the cbgitty server where the other previous CBN compilation albums reside. For some reason neither of us is sure of, I couldn't download it from there, even though we tested one of the other compilation album files, and I could download that one just fine. I suspect it's a file permissions issue on the folder on gitty's server, but we've gotta wait for Ben Gitty to take a look at it. It being a national holiday in the US, y'all should be spending time with your families and friends, while those of us in other countries will just have to exercise patience for another day or two at most (I'm hoping). I can tell you that I think the album sounds amazing. Dan has listened to it, and sez we have a lotta good tracks. I will be issuing a Download Discussion album release announcement as soon as we know the file is downloadable for everyone everywhere. I truly appreciate your patience; it's been 3 and a half months since I first broached this project idea, and y'all stepped up and far exceeded what I thought this could be. I sincerely apologize for the delay, and ask you to wait just a teensy tad longer while we get the tech glitches sorted.

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Permalink Reply by bill on July 12, 2012 at 8:01am

this is amazing two of my favorite things in this world, townes van zandt music and cbg's.  i am blown away i don't know if you can wear out a download like you could an old album but i must be gettin close.  All you involved did a fantastic job covering one of the best song writing picking poets that hit this planet.  good one :)  thank you... i find it amusing that i can sign on one day and find this, and one other day i was walking down broadway in nashville bar hopping, and when ever i could i would ask the band at the bar if they could play some townes and not one of them knew who he was...

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Permalink Reply by Thorsten Hinrichsen on July 12, 2012 at 11:40am

tragic... when I heard about Ron's TVZ-project, I only remembered the name Townes Van Zandt and one or two songs. I thought nobody here in Austria would know about him, but 2 months later I found a Townes Van Zandt-CD in the living room of a close friend who also plays in a band with me... but forgot to tell me...

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 12, 2012 at 3:47pm

And here I thought this thread was dead like Fred...Thorsten's story kinda reminds me of the story Joe Ely tells about picking up Townes hitch hiking in West Texas with a backpack full of nothing but his first record album. A surreal coincidental meeting that lead somewhere strange and beautiful. And Bill's comment about finding no young pickers in Nashville bars who knew any TVZ songs makes me feel both old, and yet rejuvenated- maybe this is exactly the reason we needed to do this album. Get the Man's music out there again in another form. Keep pushing the download to your friends and relations!

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Permalink Reply by Seaman Jay on September 24, 2012 at 12:11am

Listening to the album, again. Great tunes, great performances.

The Nation makes it possible, over and over again.

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