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Townes Van Zandt

If I Needed You

1972 · via Lyle Lovett

Townes Van Zandt wrote “If I Needed You” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1972. Also recorded by Ray Benson (released 2001), Guy Clark (released 2009) and Emmylou Harris (released 1981), among 60 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972).

Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You
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Lyle's version is a good one, but start with the man who wrote it and cut it first in 1972. Then notice who kept passing it around: Emmylou Harris and Don Williams, Guy Clark, Emmylou again alongside Townes himself.

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Credited writer: Townes Van Zandt.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1972.

On the album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972).

Other recordings on file · first release year

60 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Lyle Lovett recorded "If I Needed You." Who wrote it and put it on record first, long before Lyle got to it?Townes Van Zandt
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