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((Infobox album
| name       = Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
| type       = Live album
| artist     = [[Townes Van Zandt]]
| cover      = Van Zandt - Live at The Old Quarter.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = May 1977
| recorded   = July 1973
| venue      = The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
| studio     =
| genre      = 
| length     = 92:40
| label      = [[Tomato Records|Tomato]] <small>(original release)</small><br>[[Rhino Records|Rhino]]<br>Charly<br>CoraZong<br>[[Fat Possum]]
| producer   = Earl Willis
| prev_title = [[The Late Great Townes Van Zandt]]
| prev_year  = 1972
| next_title = [[Flyin' Shoes]]
| next_year  = 1978
))
((Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = ((Rating|4.5|5))<ref>[((AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000272161|pure_url=yes)) Allmusic review]</ref>
| rev2 = ''Best of Country Music''
| rev2Score = <small>(favorable)</small><ref name = "BoCM">John Morthland, "Review: ''Live at The Old Quarter'' – Townes Van Zandt", ''The Best of Country Music'', [[Doubleday Books]], 1984, ((ISBN|978-0-385-19192-0)) ([http://www.lonestarwebstation.com/tvzrec/r_latoq.htm link])</ref>
| rev3 = ''Cosmik Debris''
| rev3Score = <small>(favorable)</small><ref name = "CD">Shaun Dale, "Review: Townes Van Zandt: ''Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas''", ''Cosmic Debris'', 2002 ([http://www.cosmik.com/aa-june02/reviews/review_townes_van_zandt.html link])</ref>
| rev4 = ''Crescent Blues''
| rev4Score = <small>(favorable)</small><ref name = "CBMV">Michael Pacholski, "Crescent Blues Music Views: ''Live at The Old Quarter'' – Townes Van Zandt", ''Crescent Blues E-Magazine'', Volume 5, Issue 4  ([http://www.crescentblues.com/5_4issue/mu_zandt_old.shtml link])</ref>
| rev5 = ''Folk World''
| rev5Score = <small>(favorable)</small><ref name = "FW">"Folk World CD Reviews", folkworld.de Issue 26, October 2003 ([http://www.folkworld.de/26/e/cds1.html link])</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]''
| rev6Score = <small>(favorable)</small><ref name = "GM">Bruce Sylvester, (Reviews of ''[[The Best of Townes Van Zandt]]''; ''Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas''; ''[[Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings]]''; ''[[Together at the Bluebird Cafe]]''), ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]'', 28:14:573, July 12, 2002, p. 65-66</ref>
| rev7 = ''Music Box''
| rev7Score = ((Rating|5|5))<ref name = "MB">John Metzger, "Review: Townes Van Zandt – ''Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas''", ''The Music Box'', 10:2, February 2003 ([http://www.musicbox-online.com/tvz-live.html link])</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev8Score = <small>(favorable)</small><ref name = "PM1">Andrew Gilstrap, [Review of seven 2003 reissues of Van Zandt albums], ''PopMatters'', March 25, 2003 ([http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/v/vanzandttownes-reissues.shtml link])</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev9Score = ((Rating|5|5))<ref name = RS>Anthony Decurtis, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070319225150/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/townesvanzandt/albums/album/126626/review/5945364/live_at_the_old_quarter_houston_texas "Album reviews: Townes Van Zandt – ''Live at the Old Quarter''"], ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', '''911''', November 19, 2002</ref>
| noprose = yes
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'''''Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas''''' is a [[double album|double]] live album by [[Texas]] singer-songwriter [[Townes Van Zandt]].  The recording captures Van Zandt in a series of July 1973 performances in an intimate venue [[Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe|Old Quarter]]. There is a strong critical consensus that this recording is among the most exemplary of Van Zandt's career.

==Recording==
In July 1973, Van Zandt performed a string of shows over five sweltering nights at the Old Quarter bar owned by Rex ("Wrecks") Bell and Dale Soffar that were recorded on a portable four-track by Earl Willis, the album's producer and engineer.  They would eventually be released four years later by Van Zandt's previous producer and manager Kevin Eggers on his new Tomato Records label.  The liner notes describe the recording as the "[[Rosetta Stone]]" of Texas music.  One can hear Van Zandt's influences in covers by artists like [[Bo Diddley]], Texas [[blues music|bluesman]] [[Lightnin' Hopkins]], and [[country music|country]] picker [[Merle Travis]].  Van Zandt's most famous works can also be heard, such as "[[If I Needed You]]" and "[[Pancho and Lefty]]" played to an audience not already familiar with these songs.  The singer's laconic banter and corny jokes are also on full display.  The album is also noted for the [[intimacy]] of the performance, with Van Zandt taking the stage alone and accompanying himself on guitar as he did thousands of times during his career.  In the 2007 biography ''To Live's To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt'', John Kruth writes that Van Zandt played "to nearly a hundred folks per set, packed shoulder to shoulder within the bar's bare brick walls.  The room was so jammed that it was impossible for a waitress to wend her way through the crowd to take drink orders.  People had to pass money hand over fist and wait, in hopes that a mug of cold beer would eventually find its way back to them."  Van Zandt is introduced by Dale Soffar and, after apologizing for the busted [[air conditioning]], performs a gentle reading of "Pancho and Lefty", describing how he wrote the song while traveling near Dallas with [[Daniel Antopolsky]].  At the end of the song, the singer remarks, "I've never heard it so quiet in here."  The photograph on the album cover was shot by Steve Salmieri.

==Release and reception==
The release of ''Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas'' in 1977 followed a period of relative inactivity for Van Zandt, whose last album, ''[[The Late Great Townes Van Zandt]]'' was released in 1972.  Van Zandt had recorded a follow-up with the working title ''7 Come 11'', but its release was held up due to a dispute between producer [[Jack Clement]] and Poppy Records founder Kevin Eggers.  When the live album finally came out it received euphoric praise from critics, who had bemoaned the overproduction on some of his earlier records.  Sean Mitchell of the ''Dallas Times Herald'' commented, "Though this gifted songwriter has been a legend in and around the folk circuit of the Southwest for a decade, his albums have been harder to find than [[El Dorado]]."  The ''LA Times'' hailed Van Zandt as "a cross between [[Woody Guthrie]] and [[Leonard Cohen]]."  [[AllMusic]] writes that Van Zandt "could work magic in front of an audience under the right circumstances, and while a wealth of live recordings of Van Zandt have emerged since his passing on the first day of 1997, ''Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas'' ranks with the very best of his concert albums."  [[Amazon.com]] opines, "It's not just his best live album, but maybe his best album, period." [[Chris Robinson (singer)|Chris Robinson]] of the [[Black Crowes]] told Van Zandt biographer John Kruth that he'd been given a copy of the album by [[Mark Olson (musician)|Mark Olson]] of [[the Jayhawks]] and that the record "really spoke to me.  I listened to it constantly while on a tour of Europe.  In [[rock and roll]] people tend to forget about the importance of songwriting.  Townes really inspired me to become a better songwriter.  That motherfucker had his antennas up."

Van Zandt remained cautiously optimistic about his critical windfall, stating in a 1977 interview with ''Omaha Rainbow'', "I kind of forgot all about them.  Then Kevin Eggers took the tapes to a studio at [[Lima, Ohio|Lima]], [[Ohio]], and came out with the record.  It's okay.  That's what went down and it's good to have.  Getting that record out on Tomato meant to me that all the mire that the business end of my career got wedged into was finally evaporating.  I was out of the chute on a brand new horse, right?"

==Track listing==
All lyrics and music by Townes Van Zandt except where noted.

Disc 1:
# "Announcement" (by Dale Soffar) – :44
# "[[Pancho and Lefty]]" – 4:08
# "Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold" – 3:40
# "Don't You Take It Too Bad" – 2:57
# "Two Girls" – 3:51
# "Fraternity Blues" – 3:07
# "[[If I Needed You]]" – 3:18
# "Brand New Companion" – 4:20
# "White Freight Liner Blues" – 3:26
# "[[To Live Is to Fly]]" – 3:20
# "She Came and She Touched Me" – 4:09
# "Talking Thunderbird Blues" – 2:33
# "Rex's Blues" – 3:05
# "[[Take This Hammer|Nine Pound Hammer]]" ([[Merle Travis]]) – 3:06

Disc 2:
# "For the Sake of the Song" – 4:48
# "Chauffeur's Blues" ([[Lightnin' Hopkins]]) – 4:33
# "No Place to Fall" – 3:08
# "Loretta" – 2:26
# "Kathleen" – 2:54
# "Why She's Acting This Way" – 5:42
# "[[Cocaine Blues#Other songs titled "Cocaine Blues"|Cocaine Blues]]" (Traditional) – 3:21
# "[[Who Do You Love? (Bo Diddley song)|Who Do You Love?]]" ([[Bo Diddley|Ellas McDaniel]]) – 3:44
# "Tower Song" – 3:47
# "[[Waiting 'Round to Die]]" – 2:35
# "Tecumseh Valley" – 4:30
# "Lungs" – 2:34
# "Only Him or Me" – 2:42

==Release history==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! year !! format !! label !! catalog #
|-
| 1977 || LP || [[Tomato Records|Tomato]] || 27001
|-
| 1977 ||    || Tomato || 20001
|-
| 1989 || CD || Tomato || 2696402
|-
|1989
|LP
|Decal
|LIKD 57
|-
| 1994 || CD || [[Rhino Records|Rhino]] || 71245
|-
| 2002 || CD || Tomato Music || 3011
|-
| 2003 || CD || [[Charly Records Ltd.|Charly]] || 508
|-
| 2003 || CD || [[CoraZong Records|CoraZong]] || 255041
|-
| 2008 || CD || [[Fat Possum Records|Fat Possum]] || 1118-2
|-
| 2009 || LP || [[Fat Possum Records|Fat Possum]] || 1118-1
|}

==Personnel==

=== Music ===
* [[Townes Van Zandt]] – [[steel-string acoustic guitar|acoustic guitar]], [[Lead singer|vocals]]

===Production===
* Record producer by: [[Earl Willis]]
* [[Sound recording and reproduction|Recorded]] at: [[Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe|The Old Quarter]], [[Houston]], Texas
** [[Recording engineer|Engineer]]: Earl Willis
* Mixed & Edited at: [[Northwestern Sound Studios]], [[Lima, Ohio]]
** Engineer: Benny Young
* [[Audio mastering|Mastered]] at: [[Mediasound Studios]], New York, N.Y.
** Engineer: Ray Janos
* Reissue production coordination by Kevin Calabro and Katja Maas
* Remastered by Paul Zinman

===Artwork/liner notes===
* [[Liner notes]] by Earl Willis, Chet Flippo and Arthur Wood
* Edited by John Tobler
* Cover design by [[Milton Glaser]]
* Photography by Steve Salmieri

==Notes and sources==
((Reflist))

((Townes Van Zandt))
((Authority control))

[[Category:Townes Van Zandt albums]]
[[Category:1977 live albums]]
[[Category:Tomato Records live albums]]
[[Category:Rhino Records live albums]]
[[Category:Albums with cover art by Milton Glaser]]

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