Heartworn Highways

An essential artifact and document of that scene and sound...a film with as much of a devoted cult as the music itself.
-- Nadine Smith, Nashville Scene

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Heartworn Highways

In the mid 1970s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” Inspired, in part, by newly long-haired Willie Nelson’s embrace of hippie attitudes and audiences, a younger generation of artists including Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Steve Earle and Guy Clark popularized and developed the outlaw sound. It borrowed from rock, folk and bluegrass, with an edge that was missing from mainstream Nashville country. This newly restored documentary includes rarely captured performances of these musicians as they perfected this then-new style and helped change the course of country music history.

Genre
Documentary, Music, Culture Vulture
Runtime
92
Language
English
Director
James Szalapski
Writer(s)
James Szalapski
Cast
Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Young, David Allan Coe, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Larry Jon Wilson, Charlie Daniels

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