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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ohn Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 - January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including If I Needed You, To Live Is To Fly, and No Place to Fall are considered standards of their genre. AllMusic has called him one of the greatest country and folk artists of his generation. While alive, Van Zandt was labeled as a cult musician: though he had a small and devoted fanbase, he never had a successful album or single, and even had difficulty keeping his recordings in print. In 1983, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song Pancho and Lefty, scoring a number one hit on the Billboard country music charts. Despite achievements like these, the bulk of his life was spent touring various dive bars, often living in cheap motel rooms, backwoods cabins and on friends' couches.

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