Harold F. Eggers, Jr. Road Manager, Agent, Manager, Business Partner and friend of Townes Van Zandt For 20 Years. www.townesvanzandt20yearshfe.com
Harold E. Eggers, Jr. was road manager, agent, manager, business partner and most importantly, a dedicated friend of Townes Van Zandt, amd from 1976 until 1997, Harold and Townes were zig zagging across North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe, daily living what Harold calls "the ultimate roller coaster ride".
Townes was a very complicated and sometimes, perhaps most of the time, unmanageable. He died in 1997, like many of the most extraordinarily talented entertainers, song writers, artists, who chase their dreams and upon finding them are left with the difficult reality and question, "What now?".
He was an "extremely intense & creative artist" and during Harold's friendship and business association with Townes, and their life on the road together, Townes performed and wrote a myriad of songs recorded by some of the best know artists and entertainmers in the music business, including (in alphabetical order): Hoyt Axton, Bobby Bare, Guy Clark, Cowboy Junkies, Bob Dylan, Steve Earl, Rambling Jack Elliot, Nancy Griffith, Merle Haggard, George Hamilton IV, Emmylou Harris, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Norah Jones, Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Delbert McClinton, Willie Nelson, Mickie Newbury, Robert Plant, John Prine, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ricky Skaggs, John T. Van Zandt (Townes son), Jerry Jeff Walker, Doc Watson, Don Williams, Steve Young.
Townes was a prolific song writer and his songs were sung and recorded by both himself and the people listed above and included this magnificent list of songs from a creative genious.
Ain't Leavin' Your Love, All Your Young Servants, Announcement, At My Window, Automobile Blues, A Song For, Be Here To Love Me, Billy, Boney And Ma, Blaze's Blues, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Wind Blew, Brand New Companion, Brother Flower, Buckskin Stallion Blues, BW Railroad Blues, Catfish Song, Colorado Girl, Columbine, Come Tomorrow, Cowboy Junkies Lament, Dead Flowers, Delta Mama Blues, Dollar Bill Blues, Don't Let The Sunshine Fool Ya', Don't You Take It Too Bad, Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel, Flyin' Shoes, For The Sake Of The Song, Fraternity Blues, Fraulein, Goin' Down To Memphis, Gone, Gone Blues, Gone Too Long, Greensboro Woman, Heavenly Houseboat Blues, Hey Willie Boy, Highway Kind, High, Low And In Between, Honky Tonkin', If I Needed You, If I Was Washington, I'll Be Here In The Morning, Kathleen, Katie Belle Blue, Like A Summer Thursday, Little Sundance #2, Loretta, Lover's Lullaby, Lungs, Many A Fine A Lady, Maria, Marie, Mr Gold And Mr Mud, My Proud Mountains, NilesRiver Blues, Nine Pound Hammer, None But The Rain, Nothin', No Deal, No Lonesome Tune, No Place To Fall, Only Him Or Me, Our Mother The Mountain, Pancho And Lefty, Pueblo Waltz, (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria, Rake, Rex's Blues, Sad Cinderella, Sanitarium Blues, Second Lovers Song, She Came And She Touched Me, Shrimp Song, Shrimp Song, Sixteen Summers, FifteenFalls,
SnakeMountain Blues, Snake Song, Snowin On Raton, Snow Don't Fall, Squash, Standin', Still Looking For You, St John The Gambler, Talking Thunderbird Blues, Talkin' Karate Blues, TecumsehValley, The Hole, The Silver Ships Of Andilar, The Spider Song, Tower Song, To Live Is To Fly, Turnstyled, Junkpiled, Two Girls, Two Hands, Upon My Soul, Velvet Voices, Waiting Around To Die, When He Offers His Hand, When She Don't Need Me, Where I Lead Me, White Freight Liner Blues, Why She's Acting This Way
You Are Not Needed Now.
I regularly sing and have recorded two of his songs which I consider pure genius, "If I needed You", "Pancho and Lefty", and I can only hope that someday, I might write so beautifully.
Townes was both a genius and troubled man, supported daily by his friend Harold.
