Black Widow Boys
Last Thursday’s afterparty for new Townes Van Zandt documentary Be Here to Love Me at Antone’s was an interesting collision of chatter-minded film types and hyper-reverent Townesophiles shushing anyone who dared speak above a whisper. After short sets by the Flatlanders, Bill Callahan, Townes’ son J.T. Van Zandt, and the much-missed Knife in the Water (whose “Fraulein” was beautiful), …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (pictured) supplied more schmooze-friendly volume to “Black Widow Blues.” Trail has otherwise holed up in their northside studio, Mob House, recording material for what they recently decided would become, instead of an EP, the full-length follow-up to this year’s Worlds Apart.This article appears in December 16 • 2005.