LP – Limited Edition Midnight Blue Vinyl with exclusive liner notes booklet and 12×12 art print housed in a tip-on sleeve. Townes Van Zandts work, as far-reaching and as universal as it has become, begs for possessorship. Its a love language understood by all who find it, yet one that remains acutely difficult to translate to those who havent. No one understood this better than his earliest fans. Its perhaps why his first studio album, For the Sake of the Song, remains a point of controversy among anyone who discovered Townes Van Zandt outside of these LPs grooves. Townes Van Zandt the songwriter was the antithesis of bells and whistles, and so an album with such accoutrements, as this album has in spades, rings false however unfairly among purists. Taken in context, though, For the Sake of the Song is a gorgeous study in polarity. Each anchor is an artist from wildly different backgrounds, united under the profound effect of songcraft. Tracklist: A1 For The Sake Of The Song A2 Tecumseh Valley A3 Many A Fine Lady A4 Quick Silver Daydreams Of MariaA5 Waitin’ Around To Die B1 I’ll Be Here In The Morning B2 Sad Cinderella B3 The Velvet Voices B4 Talkin’ Karate Blues B5 All Your Young Servants B6 Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls