Townes Van Zandt – For The Sake Of The Song Hardcore Hip-Hop by the more superstitious members

by the more superstitious members of The Mars Volta

released in 1982 by Trojan Records

With Cursed Earth's signature brutal darkness

electric piano -- and conjures a sound worthy of bygone electro-pop technicians from Giorgio Moroder to Todd Rundgren to Steve Miller

The dichotomy of his Icelandic musings materialized in a very real way as he neglected his personal relationships in favor of his art

Townes Van Zandt – For The Sake Of The Song Hardcore Hip-Hop by the more superstitious membersTownes Van Zandt wrote songs with an uncommon grace and poetic clarity, and he sang them with a voice that was at once straightforward, eloquent, and mindful of the arid beauty of his images. A decade after Van Zandt released his first album, there would be dozens of singer songwriters following his example, but he was a rather unusual commodity when for the Sake of the Song was released in 1968, and the album's production and arrangements