BE HERE TO LOVE ME: A FILM ABUT TOWNES VAN ZANDT provides an intimate portrait of the legendary artist’s haunting music and life. Although a native Texan, Van Zandt always viewed himself as a traveller. His father, a wealthy oil man, moved the family constantly—Montana, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, among other places—which accounted for Townes’ ongoing sense of restlessness. But a more tragic influence on Towne’s music came later in his life. Van Zandt, labelled as a problem child from the get-go, was given shock therapy in his early 20’s after he fell backward from a four-story window “just to see what it felt like.” This treatment burned out all of his memories of childhood and made it difficult for him to connect to those around him for any length of time. Arguably it was this disconnection from the sources of his most deeply-held emotions that gave his songs their melancholy, redemptive power.

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