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In 1990, Townes Van Zandt was working on a three-CD retrospective for which he was re-recording much of his repertoire. That album never appeared, but in 1993, the tiny Austin-based Sundown label released Rear View Mirror, a 17-track album running nearly 58 minutes and containing newly recorded versions of Van Zandt songs dating back to 1968. Though a cover note claims "unique instrumentation," that seems to consist of only of an occasional second guitar and a fiddle. (Sparse applause indicates the recording had been made in a club.) - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide. Includes liner notes by John Conquest. Track Listings: Pancho & Lefty/If I Needed You/For the Sake of the Song/Our Mother the Mountain/To Live Is to Fly/Lungs/Flying Shoes/No Place to Fall/Dollar Bill Blues/White Freight Liner Blues/Tecumseh Valley/Don`t You Take It Too Bad/Tower Song/Rex`s Blues/Brother Flower/Waiting Around to Die/Colorado Girl. (Fat Possum) Track Listings: Pancho & Lefty/If I Needed You/For the Sake of the Song/Our Mother the Mountain/To Live Is to Fly/Lungs/Flying Shoes/ No Place to Fall/Dollar Bill Blues/White Freight Liner Blues/Tecumseh Valley/Don`t You Take It Too Bad/Tower Song/Rex`s Blues/Brother Flower/Waiting Around to Die/Colorado Girl. (Fat Possum)
