It has all started with an idea - the idea of publishing a record to tell people about Townes Van Zandt. The general public knows a precious few Van Zandt songs and those sung by other artists, for example Willie Nelson who landed a hit with the Van Zandt song Pancho &Lefty. Within the scene the support for Van Zandt was enormous: his friend, country singer Steve Earle, for example, was quoted that Van Zandt was the best songwriter of the world and he would stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table to repeat this. After Bob Dylan has played Van Zandt songs as well one could think that everybody has heard of Townes Van Zandt, but label founder Ansgar Glade never did. And so a lot of other people never did. So the idea was born and My Proud Mountain released ... mehr lesen