TOWNES VAN ZANDT Delta Momma Blues LP TOMATO 1971/1978 US reissue+company inner

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TOWNES VAN ZANDT

Among the most widely admired and influential Texas songwriters, 

an alt-country godfather with a dry, witty, allusive writing style. 

Townes Van Zandt's music doesn't jump up and down, wear fancy clothes, 

or beat around the bush. Whether he was singing a quiet, introspective 

country-folk song or a driving, hungry blues, Van Zandt's 

lyrics and melodies were filled with the kind of haunting truth 

and beauty that you knew instinctively. His music came straight from his soul by way 

of a kind heart, an honest mind, and a keen ear for the gentle blend 

of words and melody. He could bring you down to a place so sad that 

you felt like you were scraping bottom, but just as quickly he could lift 

your spirits and make you smile at the sparkle of a summer morning 

or a loved one's eyes -- or raise a chuckle with a quick and funny talking blues. 

The magic of his songs is that they never leave you alone

"DELTA MOMMA BLUES"

<reissue, originally published in 1971 on Poppy records>

LP     TOMATO RECORDS      TOM-7013   STEREO

PRINTED IN U.S.A.     1978 REPRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE (HEAVY DUTY CARDBOARD COVER)   STILL IN SHRINK

WITH COMPANY INNER SLEEVE

This version: On this edition the track A2 on label is misspelled "Delta Moma Blues", 

on back cover "Delta Mama Blues" (twice, on tracklist and credits).

Brown (wrapping paper) inner sleeves with "stamp" Tomato 12" Quality Produce 

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  TOMATO - BLACK LABEL with RED LOGO - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: TOM-7013

Catalog on labels: TOM-7013 A / TOM-7013 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): TOM-7013-A   J.G.   (Stamped) MASTERDISK

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): TOM-1-7013-B   J.G.   (Stamped) MASTERDISK

On labels: Produced by Ronald Frangipane

rim text reads "© The Tomato Music Company, Limited, New York, N.Y. Printed in U.S.A."

On back cover: All selections composed by Townes Van Zandt except "Delta Mama Blues"....

Copyright by Silver Dollar Music, Inc.

Recorded at Century Sound Studios, New York, N.Y.

TMK © 1978 The Tomato Music...........Printed in U.S.A.

tracklisting (from labels)

Side A: FFV - DELTA MOMA BLUES - ONLY HIM OR ME

TURSTYLED, JUNKPILED - TOWER SONG

Side B: COME TOMORROW - BRAND NEW COMPANION

WHERE I LEAD ME - RAKE - NOTHIN'

  grading

RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE NEAR MINT but (please, see pictures and read above description)

On Van Zandt's fourth album his voice hasn't yet attained the weary gravitas that made his later albums 

so shattering, but his dark, skewed visions of life are already in place. "Tower Song" is one of the minor key 

laments Van Zandt did so well, delivered with sparse guitar and subtle classical harp. 

The singer is leaving behind his wife and child, blaming her for the break up, although he admits 

he's a drunk and unable to communicate with her, except in song. "Where I Lead Me" is a dark folk-rocker

that takes another jaundiced look at relationships with his characteristic bleak humor. 

"Rake" has the feel of a British folk song, the familiar story of an old soul adrift looking back on his youth 

with longing and regret. It has an epic feel augmented by the string section and a lone French horn. 

"Nothin'" is a bitter kiss off, a guy who doesn't want nothin' from a departing lover who he says 

gave him nothin', but there's more than a hint of revenge and rage in the lyric, and Van Zandt's flat, 

dry singing makes the tune chilling. The title track, a country blues, is more lighthearted,

 and sounds like a ragged jug band tune...(AllMusic)