The Highway Kind is a 1997 posthumous album released by Townes Van Zandt on Sugar Hill Records (SHCD-1056), assembled by road manager Harold Eggers from late-career live recordings and a handful of studio covers following Van Zandt's death on January 1, 1997. Van Zandt (guitar, vocals) performs in a characteristically spare mode throughout a program that includes originals "Rake" and "The Hole" alongside covers of Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues," Hank Williams's "Lost Highway," and others. The compilation captures the worn, lived-in quality of his final years while maintaining the lyrical precision that defined his work across three decades of recording.
Tracklist
- 1 Still Lookin' for You 2:27
- 2 Dublin Blues alt version 4:19
- 3 Lost Highway alt version 2:41
- 4 Lover's Lullabye 4:08
- 5 The Hole 5:22
- 6 Highway Kind 3:10
- 7 (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle 2:34
- 8 No Deal 3:13
- 9 Blaze's Blues 3:07
- 10 Darcy Farrow alt version 3:59
- 11 My Proud Mountains 3:35
- 12 Wreck on the Highway 3:37
- 13 Rake 3:30
- 14 IRA Hayes 5:36
