Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: David Broza Title: Night Dawn: Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: S-Curve Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2010 Re-Release Date: 2/23/2010 Genres: Folk, Pop Styles: Traditional Folk, Jewish & Yiddish Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 807315130121 |
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Multi-platinum artist David Broza is set to release Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt, February 23rd, 2010 via S-Curve Records. The 12-song set was produced by David Broza and G.E. Smith (Hall & Oa... more » |
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Album Description Multi-platinum artist David Broza is set to release Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt, February 23rd, 2010 via S-Curve Records. The 12-song set was produced by David Broza and G.E. Smith (Hall & Oates, Saturday Night Live) and features 10 previously unreleased lyrics and poems written by the late Townes Van Zandt -- one cover of the last song Van Zandt wrote for David and one instrumental Broza wrote for Van Zandt. David Broza met Van Zandt when the pair played a "Writers in the Round" show in Houston, TX in 1994. It was the only time the two played together and they did not remain in touch afterwards. On New Years Day, 1997, Van Zandt tragically passed away and shortly after, Broza was alerted that Townes had endowed him a shoebox full of unpublished poetry and lyrics. "I was dumbstruck," Broza recalls. "Why me? I never really talked to Townes. We played together one night. That was it." After Van Zandt's death, his widow, Jeanene Van Zandt, requested Broza to not take the poems, but let her present them to Townes' fans like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and others. Eight years later, after never surfacing, Broza asked for them and started a four year process writing music for 10 of the unseen works. Broza then fi nished an 11th, "Harms Swift Way," from a Van Zandt demo. He then composed an original instrumental, "Too Old to Die Young," as a tribute to Van Zandt that closes the album. More than a decade after initially being given to Broza, Van Zandt's unpublished poems and lyrics will now be heard for the first time. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsPoets Problem R. M. Ettinger | Cleveland Heights, OH USA | 03/21/2010 (2 out of 5 stars) "David Broza collaborates on Townes Van Sandt's final set of lyrics, what could possibly go wrong, right? Well, 'Night Dawn - the Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Sandt' pretty much answers that question. Broza is an incredible Israeli guitarist/singer and I've been a fan for two decades. Van Sandt was an outstanding songwriter - some of his stuff you might know, mostly through other artists, though he did do recordings himself. Van Sandt left behind a number of unfinished songs when he died. Lyrics, actually. Poems. Through the grace of Van Sandt's widow, Broza was allowed to compose the music for these and perform them. And it's been forever since Broza has put out an English sung album. Mostly they are in Hebrew or Spanish (both of which I love, but......). The unfortunate thing is, I don't think it is Towne's lyrics that are the problem. I think it is Broza's music, or at least his arrangements. I have to use "Holes in my Sole" as the example. It being the longest piece on the disk, it is arguably the centerpiece. Broza's guitar work is exemplary. The first minute of music is incredible and then for the next three and a half the music and lyrics go in a blues mode, which I like very much. Then it all falls apart. For the next two plus minutes, it goes into a Johnny Cash like railroad song. WTF? I still play the song, but I hit the skip button at the 4:18 mark or so. Badly arranged backing vocals ("Night Dawn" - which makes it sound like bad Pips now and again) don't help matters. There are no denying Broza's guitar skills ("Carolina", "The Deer", "Holes in my Sole", "Too Old to Die Young"), he is incredible, but he has got to do better in the arrangement category. 'Night Dawn' isn't without some rays of hope. I do like "Harms Swift Way" and "Soul to Soul" as they are the stand-out cuts here. It pains to me say that this isn't better, but it isn't." One of Broza's best michael rooz | 04/15/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is a very unique collection amongsts Broza's work. It's folkish, it's blues and it's "Broza". There's a new flavour in David Broza's singing on this album and the background vocals are sweet and addictive. On the first listen I thought that there were some elements that were overly salient and aggresive however a few more listens after that and the harmony was much more apparent. This is simply great music and it gets better with every listen." Great words from a legend put to excellent music think good | Prescott AZ USA | 04/28/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "i'm a big TVZ fan and this was a great way to be introduced to David Broza. this project was in the works for some time and it's great that it finally found the finish. And Broza did Townes words justice."
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