
Stranger Songs
Tuesday September 16th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Pancho & Lefty & Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt
The theme this week on Stranger Songs is Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt.
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fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy ![]() |
Townes Van Zandt – who was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1944 and died in Smyrna, Tennessee on January 1, 1997 at age 52 – was one of the greatest Texas singer-songwriters. Many of his songs are enduring classics still sung by many artists. |
Pancho & Lefty Townes Van Zandt, Freddy Fender, Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution, Doug Sahm & Augie Meyer - Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings - Tomato |
Tecumseh Valley Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie - Other Voices/Other Rooms - Elektra |
Colorado Girl Bob Jensen - For the Sake of the Song - Bob Jensen ![]() |
If I Needed You Matthew Barber & Jill Barber - The Family Album - Outside Music ![]() |
When She Don't Need Me Catherine MacLennan - When the Wind Blows: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt - Appaloosa ![]() |
Our Mother the Mountain The Wainwright Sisters - Songs in the Dark - MapleMusic ![]() |
Kathleen Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas - Tomato |
fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy ![]() |
For the Sake of the Song David Olney with Daniel Seymour - Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I - Strictly Country |
Rex's Blues Kate & Edith - Live at Kelso Hall - Kate & Edith ![]() |
No Lonesome Tune Saul Broudy - Travels with Broudy - Saul Broudy |
Waiting Around to Die The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown - Nettwerk ![]() |
Columbine Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt - Tomato |
Night Dawn (Silver Dollar) David Broza - Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt - S-Curve |
Snowin' on Raton Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell - One to the Heart, One to the Head - Frontera/Scarlet Letter |
Snow Don't Fall John Gorka - Writing in the Margins - Red House |
Sad Cinderella Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt - Tomato |
No Place to Fall Lucy Kaplansky - The Lucy Story: unreleased and rare tracks, 1976-2023 - Lucyricky |
(Quicksilver Dreams of) Maria Steve Earle - Townes: The Basics - New West |
To Live is to Fly Guy Clark - Old Friends - Sugar Hill |
Brother Flower Townes Van Zandt & Kimmie Rhodes - Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings - Tomato |
White Freightliner Colleen Rennison - See the Sky About to Rain - Black Hen Music ![]() |
Pancho & Lefty Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner - Warner Bros./Rhino |
Great show once again Mike. Great songs of Townes Van Zandt .. perfect revisit !! perfect too for winding down the Summer of 2025.
10:06 AM, September 12th, 2025