Townes Van Zandt For The Sake Of The Song

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• For the Sake of the Song is the debut album by country singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in 1968. The majority of the songs, including the title track, “Tecumseh Valley”, “(Quicksilver Daydreams of) Maria”, “Waitin’ Around to Die”, and “Sad Cinderella”, were re-recorded in more stripped-down versions for subsequent studio albums.

  For the Sake of the Song would be the flagship release on Poppy Records, a label operated by Keven Eggers, with whom Van Zandt would have a long and complex professional relationship. According to John Kruth’s book To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, Eggers first heard Van Zandt’s song “Tecumseh Valley” when producer Jack Clement played a demo of it recorded at a Houston recording studio in 1966, with Eggers marveling,