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26. From “Talk Townes,” an article by Patrick Brennan, February 1995. It is not revealed which song Townes said he wrote with Shane MacGowan in mind. 27. Shane MacGowan discusses “piss artists” and many other topics in A Drink with Shane MacGowan (New York: Grove Press, 2001). 28. Patrick Brennan, “Talk Townes.” 29. Jeanene Van Zandt, from the liner notes to Jonnell Mosser’s 1996 album of Townes covers, Around Townes. 30. Townes had a large collection of Bo Whitt’s paintings; Jeanene has some in Smyrna, as do Rex Bell and Jet Whitt in Galveston. 31. The album is Daddies Sing Good Night: A Fathers’ Collection of Sleepytime Songs, released in 1994. 32. Neil Strauss, “The Pop Life.” 33. Ibid. 34. From “An Interview with Townes Van Zandt,” by Aretha Sills, Cups magazine, August 1994. 35. A recording of parts of this show—minus Emmylou Harris—was released in 2001 as Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark Together at the Bluebird Café on American Originals Records. 36. Quotes from Interview with J.T. Van Zandt, Son of the Late Great Townes Van Zandt, Lone Star Music, 2001, www.lonestarmusic.com. 37. Bayorischer Rundfunk radio interview, November 20, 1995. 38. Quotes from the author’s correspondence with Claudia Winterer, January 2002. 39. Townes Van Zandt, interview with Larry Monroe, KUT radio, December 1993. Susanna Clark said that Townes’ phone bill one month was $2,300 (Susanna Clark, author’s interview). 40. Bayorischer Rundfunk radio interview.
Chapter 15 1. Quoted in Hall, “The Great, Late Townes Van Zandt.” 2. Claudia Winterer, correspondence. 3. Townes is referring to “Snow Don’t Fall.” See Paul Zollo, Songwriters on Songwriting. 4. Joe Gracey, from correspondence with the author, June 2002. The resulting Kimmie Rhodes album, West Texas Heaven (1996) is highly recommended. 5. Some tracks were eventually released in 2002 on Absolutely Nothing, on Normal Records. 6. Jim Calvin, Bob Moore, and Claudia Winterer all confirm the story of and the existence of the bruise, from the author’s interviews and correspondence. 7. The accounts of Townes’ last weeks related in this chapter are from the author’s interviews with Jim Calvin, Royann Calvin, Susanna Clark, Jimmy Gingles, and Bob Moore, plus the account in “Townes last moments—report from Jeanene,” Aug. 2 1997, http://ippc2.orst. edu/coopl/tvznotice4.html.