John Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "For the Sake of the Song", "If I Needed You", "Tecumseh Valley", "Tower Song", "Rex's Blues", and "To Live Is to Fly", that are widely considered masterpieces of American songwriting. His musical style has often been described as melancholy and features rich, poetic lyrics. During his early years, Van Zandt was respected for his guitar playing and fingerpicking ability.
Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Active since 1980, he has recorded 13 albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. His most recent album is 12th of June, released in 2022.
Guy Charles Clark was an American folk and country singer-songwriter and luthier. He released more than 20 albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Kathy Mattea, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Chris Stapleton. He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture of You.
World in Motion is the ninth album by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1989. It peaked at number 45 on The Billboard 200 and was Browne's first album to obtain neither gold nor platinum status. The album took three years to complete and makes statements about nuclear disarmament and the "secret" government that brought forth Oliver North and the Iran-Contra scandal.
I Love Everybody is the fifth album by Lyle Lovett, released in 1994. The album consists of songs written by Lovett prior to the recording of his first album, Lyle Lovett (1986).
Joshua Judges Ruth is Lyle Lovett's fourth album, released in 1992.
Forget About It is a studio album by Alison Krauss, released in 1999. It reached number 5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The lead single, "Forget About It", peaked at number 67 on the Country Singles Chart, and "Stay" reached number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Lyle Lovett is Lyle Lovett's 1986 debut album. By the mid-1980s, Lovett had already distinguished himself in the burgeoning Texas singer-songwriter scene. He had performed in the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 1980 and returned to win in 1982. In 1984, he recorded a four-song demo with the help of the Phoenix band J. David Sloan and the Rogues and his music had begun to be distributed by the Fast Folk Musical Magazine
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band is Lyle Lovett's third album, released in 1989. Lovett won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for the album.
Walter Hyatt was an American singer and songwriter. His band, known as Uncle Walt's Band, was involved in the alternative music scene in Austin, Texas, from its inception, and is credited by many with being the Godfather of Americana Music or the Original Americana Artist, never easily pegged into any one musical genre or format of commercial music styles.
Together at the Bluebird Café is a live recording of an "in-the-round" concert by three critically acclaimed Texan singer-songwriters, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. Each alternates between solo performances.
The Road to Ensenada is the sixth album by Lyle Lovett, released in 1996.
Live in Texas is a live album by American singer Lyle Lovett recorded in Austin & San Antonio, Tx August 29-September 1 1995 and released on June 29, 1999.
Steven John Fromholz was an American singer-songwriter who was selected as the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2007.
It's Not Big It's Large is an album by Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, released in 2007. The recording was made live in studio {recorded with all instruments as if a concert venue, but done in a studio}.
Dr. T & the Women is the soundtrack to Robert Altman's film, Dr. T & the Women. All tracks are instrumentals except, "Ain't It Somethin'," "You've Been So Good Up Till Now" and "She's Already Made Up Her Mind." "Ain't It Something" is a rerecording of a song from Lovett's 1994 album I Love Everybody, while "You've Been So Good Up Till Now" and "She's Already Made Up Her Mind" were previously released on his 1992 album Joshua Judges Ruth.
Better Days is the fifth studio album by Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1983.
The Dark is an album by American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 2002.
Workbench Songs is an album by American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released on July 10, 2006. It was nominated for "Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album" at the Grammy Awards.
"If I Needed You" is a song written by Townes Van Zandt and performed on his 1972 album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. It was covered 9 years later by American country music artists Emmylou Harris and Don Williams as a duet, and was released in September 1981 as the first single from Harris' album Cimarron. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. According to Townes's business partner and producer Kevin Eggers, the song was written about his wife Anne Mittendorf Eggers.
