Table of Contents
Foreword L. E. McCullough vii
Introduction: "The Truth, No Matter What" Harold F. Eggers Jr. ix
Prologue: 1978: "Everybody Here's Crazy Except Me!" xiii
1 I First Meet the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt 1
2 Moving Forward, One Backward Step at a Time 7
3 Welcome to Nashville: Would You Rather a Knife in the Chest or the Back? 19
4 We Hit the Road: Road Hits Back 39
5 The Crying Tour 71
6 Interlude … Insanity Leaves, Then Sneaks in the Back Window 87
7 All Trails Lead to Townes 97
8 Back on the Road, Back on the Edge 103
9 "My Musk Precedes Me" 123
10 The Last Lost Highway 133
11 No Place to Fall 149
12 Goodbye to All My Friends 175
Afterword: "The Van Gogh of Lyrics" L. E. McCullough 185
A Townes Van Zandt Discography Patrick Hurley 195
Townes Van Zandt Discographical Data Hans Golverdingen 203
Recording Townes: Process and Philosophy Harold F. Eggers Jr. 205
Acknowledgments 209
Index 211