don't forget the soundtrack to Red Headed Stranger - a great movie with Willie Nelson that was actually created around the soundtrack rather than the other way around.

Absolutely -- Red Headed Stranger is great. Thanks for mentioning it. The song is linked above, but the whole soundtrack is well worth exploring.

I don't think of TVZ as underappreciated. He is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Texas songwriters by just about the entire Nashville/Austin/L.A. songwriting community (probably NYC too, but I don't know that crowd as well). I grew up in Louisiana just across the state line from Texas and have lived in Nashville for a long time, and Townes is very well known and loved by anyone who knows something about good songs, country music or americana. Also, it's "Tecumseh Valley", not highway.

Thanks, David -- I replaced the Highway with a Valley, my mis-typing. Good catch.

Growing up in Ohio, I never heard about Townes Van Zandt. Never once heard one of his songs on the radio, or heard anyone covering him. It wasn't until I moved to California that I started to hear other songwriters singing his praises.

It makes me happy to hear that he is appreciated more in Nashville and in Louisiana and Texas. Hopefully other songwriting communities will give him more of his due too.

I grew(am growing up) in Wisconsin, and never heard any TVZ on the radio or elsewhere either! Now I'm at college and stumbled across him somehow and have been truely inspired ever since, but no one else seems to appreciate even that genre of music let alone his songwriting here. I guess a lot of people my age just don't appreciate the kind of work he put out or like Kevin said above, "good songs, country music, or americana."

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I am a guitar/mandolin player singer songwriter. I just discovered the Pandora Musicology podcast on iTunes - it's absolutely fantastic! I love it!! I've downloaded all available episodes via iTunes - but three of them refuse to download: "The Blues Scale"; "Elements of Salsa"; and "Recording Vocals." Not sure why these three refuse to come down the pipe, but I thought you might want to know. Thanks for doing this, and keep it up. What a great project!

Wow another great show guys! Country is something I've never really looked into properly. Coming from an interest in prog rock, heavy metal and jazz fusion (with lashings of folk, both British and American, and Eastern European)

Anyway, this stuff gave me a breath of fresh musical air with the simplicity of the songwriting, reminding me what is truly important in composition. I particularly found the concept of major keys providing a tension to melancholic lyrics.
You'd touched on this in the past but it was good to hear even more examples.

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Wow another great show guys! Country is something I've never really looked into properly. Coming from an interest in prog rock, heavy metal and jazz fusion (with lashings of folk, both British and American, and Eastern European)

Anyway, this stuff gave me a breath of fresh musical air with the simplicity of the songwriting, reminding me what is truly important in composition. I particularly found the concept of major keys providing a tension to melancholic lyrics.
You'd touched on this in the past but it was good to hear even more examples.

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