Heartworn Highways

Shot back in the days when the participants were more familiar with malt whiskey than alt country, this new release of a rough and ready early 70s documentary offers a wonderfully intimate view of the fertile Texas music scene which produced such class country mavericks as Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, David Allen Coe and Rodney Crowell. Highlights include original rhinestone cowboy Coe playing in a prison, Townes at home bringing tears to the eyes of an elderly neighbour with a meloncholic tune, and an exuberant Christmas Eve session at the kitchen table of Guy and Susanna Clark with an impossibly youthful Steve Earle among the pickers.