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The love for Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark is a love unlike any other. It’s something hardly describable, peculiar and intimate. It’s a treasure chest that shortens distances and turns life into a much more beautiful experience. It’s a treasure chest full of music, poetry, endless skies and sunset. The Texan ones. Stories, meetings, friendships.

I was lucky enough to find that chest in a small border town between Italy and Switzerland in the early 90s. I was a young man who used to go to Sesto Calende to see my favorite songwriters. Up to the day I actually started to play with them, then became their tour manager, visited Austin with them every year, till I came up with a Festival entirely dedicated to Townes here in Italy and, since everything related to him can be magic, I ended up getting married with my Elena by JT Van Zandt under a hundred years old Indian oak tree in Joe Ely's ranch.

Stories like this one, all this beauty needs to be shared in the best way and Martin does it, with a lot of passion and competence. His view on the world and his knowledge in music is so broad and deep that I'm fully convinced he would be able to tell more about my music than I could possibly do or than I already know. Because his knowledge goes beyond music and has been shaped and molded by his love for life and for the best things human beings are capable of creating.

His transversal approach in this book composes something incredibly rich, assembling all the elements in harmony in a sort of written sacred geometry that, I promise, will reveal to you so much you did not know.

Andrea Parodi is a songwriter, record producer and festival organizer. He released the fantastic album "Andrea Parodi Zabala" in May 2021, which features contributions by Ryan Bingham, Joe Ely, James McMurtry, Carrie Rodriguez, David Bromberg, Greg Brown, Larry Campbell, David Grissom, Sarah Lee Guthrie, David Immerglück, Tim Lorsch, Scarlet Rivera, Glenn Fukunaga, Brennan Temple and Steve Wickham. Other highlights of his work include a bilingual version of 'Pancho & Lefty,' with a beautiful cameo of Terry Allen, on his album "Barnetti Bros Band - Chupadero!," and a haunting version of 'Tecumseh Valley' on the brillant Townes tribute he produced in 2018: „When the Wind Blows – The Songs of Townes Van Zandt,“ with Sam Baker, David Olney, Chris Jagger, Malcolm Holcombe, Christian Kjellvander, Slaid Cleaves and others.