The seeds in Townes Van Zandt’s hand are ground. What cannot be remembered can be remembered, the seeds are pulverized and bitterly soaked in beer. Glug glug is a sound, left in the throat by the ...

And the inescapable addiction may explain Van Zandt’s slithering metaphor in “Snake Song”. There’s a long history of imparting ... risk he couldn’t avoid. Townes Van Zandt’s “Snake ...