“Many of my songs, they aren’t sad, they’re hopeless,” this film’s subject explains at one point. Townes Van Zandt’s biography, unfolded with rigour and emotional heft, and featuring a Who’s Who of ...
An expanded reissue calls back to the tumultuous era that produced the New York band’s landmark 2004 debut, which posed desperate pleasure as a way of making meaning in a hostile world. This dynamic, ...