#heartworn highways

[desertsquiet]

Townes in Heartworn Highways (1976)

[joegramoe]

"We're talking some big rabbits. Bigger than a pig! The bigger the bunnier!"

[planetwaving]

obsessed w this track from Heartworn Highways

[shadowland]

Rodney Crowell - Bluebird Wine

[hankcrocodile]

Townes Van Zandt laughed off Uncle Seymore's warning against substance abuse. As he sang Waiting Around to Die, Uncle began crying.

Heartworn Highways is one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. Surprisingly, though, what makes it so is just one scene -- this one. Townes Van Zandt unsurprisingly steals the entire show. It's a ten minute long blend of happiness, remorse, togetherness, solitude, knowledge, and ignorance. Watch it if you haven't. It's available on Youtube.

[strange-messengers]

Ford pickup, still from “Heartworn Highways” - 1976 documentary about outlaw country movement

[malachimulligan]

[chillywillycd-blog]

Townes Van Zandt comments that this was the first song he ever wrote. It tells the story of his woman spending all his money, drinking, and leaving subsequently her, then in the end turning to Codeine for his escape.

To get to the point of songwriting after taking to abusing prescription drugs feels like there's some gap in the reality of this timeline. I'm thinking either this song started out as something very different as his first song, or saying that he lived a hard life is the understatement of the century, or he's not 100% honest about this being his first song...

Along with his other comments about 'Pancho and Lefty" being written about some historical figures he heard about 2 weeks after writing the song, i'm confused by Townes' perception of time.

Or maybe he was just high when this was produced.

Or maybe as a non-song-writer, perhaps he, the song writer, has a very different meaning of song writing than what i perceive as an outsider.

[shiningwizard]

Heartworn Highways (James Szalapski, 1976)

Texas’ true defenders of country and western music, while those at the Grand Ole Opry are busy finding ways they can sew more rhinestones and sequins on to their jackets. If you are into the music more than I am then this is heaven-sent. And I will say I became a fan of some of this music. And of music in general: where it comes from, where it’s played, what spawns it, its purpose and effect on player and listener alike. Performance scenes, interview scenes, scenes conveying an ambience of the state and this music, which it turns out can mostly be done through cars and driving.

[dadrockconfessions]

[rathole1991]

i’d follow you anywhere townes

[upperswampmonkey]

Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty. Heartworn Highways

[desertsquiet]

Heartworn Highways

[hoppkorv]

Was tagged by @chicken-delight and @milliondollarbash to list my top 10 albums thank u loves ❣️❣️❣️

- Quah by Jorma Kaukonen

- Manassas by Manassas

- Church Street Blues by Tony Rice

- The Second by Steppenwolf

- Weeds by Brewer & Shipley

- American Pie by Don McLean

- Spellbinder by Gábor Szabó

- Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones

- Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd by Lynyrd Skynyrd

- Heartworn Highways soundtrack

I will tag @ishallbereleased , @frenchiefacciano , @eddiecranes , @thepentangle , @kelly-jeanne if you want to do it!!

[kvetchlandia]

Townes Van Zandt     “Waiting Around to Die,” from James Szalapski's Film “Heartworn Highways”     1975

“...Sometimes, I don't know where this dirty road is taking me Sometimes, I can’t even see the reason why I guess I’ll keep a-gamblin', lots of booze, and lots of ramblin' It's easier than just a-waitin' around to die...”

[transneilyoung]

watching heartworn highways.... i like townes van zandt.....