Be Here to Love Me - Das tragische Leben des Townes Van Zandt

Originaltitel: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

2004
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1 Std. 39 Min.

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Be Here to Love Me - Das tragische Leben des Townes Van Zandt (2004)

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuBe Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.

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In a 2005 interview with Under the Radar, Margaret Brown explained her approach to telling the story of Townes van Zandt: "I think a lot of my producers were worried that the film would be really elliptical and not a normal kind of music doc and it wouldn't be received well. One of my producers, at Toronto when it opened, he gave me this whole speech beforehand about how I had to explain the film to the audience or they weren't gonna be able to follow it. It seems like everyone kind of goes with it and they feel like they're falling into it and they like it. But maybe people didn't tell me because they know I'm the filmmaker and I might be fragile. I have no idea. I wanted the film to feel like a tapestry. Like the way you meet somebody, you don't hear about their birth and end with their death... I wanted the film to feel like if you went on 10 dates with Townes and you were gradually revealed certain things. Sometimes it may be in order chronologically, but other times, the way things build on each other is not chronological. People don't think that way. Why should films be structured that way?"

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Townes van Zandt: Breaking even is ending up in Purgatory as far as I can tell. I figure there's heaven, purgatory, hell and the blues. I'm trying to crawl up from the blues, purgatory for me would be... Home Sweet Home!

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Features Neues Land (1976)

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Rake
Written by Townes van Zandt
Performed by Townes van Zandt
Courtesy of Tomato Records
Copywright: BUG

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no one like townes

If you aren't absolutely amazed by Townes' songwriting, finger picking, and singing, all you have to do is pick up a guitar to realize how difficult it is to do what he's doing. He's actually doing three or four things at once: Plucking a bass line with his thumb, a melody with his remaining fingers, and to top it all off, he sings absolutely hauntingly over this intricate accompaniment.

When Kristofferson called Townes a "songwriter's songwriter," this is made even truer by the fact that most of his biggest fans are musicians, because of his dedication and the perfection he achieves in his songs. It is truly songwriting rocket science. After I discovered Townes, I hardly ever strummed my guitar anymore, but rather try to keep it mostly fingerstyle.

Townes' greatness stemmed from what is the lifeblood of most all great musicians: persistence and dedication (and drugs), at least to his art, if not to the business side of things. Like he said; "You've got to lock yourself in your apartment, take the phone off the hook, and listen to Lightnin' Hopkins for two weeks."