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Heartworn Highways

Original Soundtrack - Standard Edition
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  • 20 page booklet with essay by Sam Sweet interviewing artists and documentary creators and crew
  • 2xLP on black vinyl
  • Gatefold CD with two 30 page booklets with liner notes.
  • Produced for rerelease by David Gorman, Patrick McCarthy, Michael Nieves, Matt Sullivan, and Sam Sweet

    Special thanks to David Gorman & Michael Nieves at Hacktone Records. Without their immense support, this release would not have been possible.

Description

Sometimes, a documentary maker is present at precisely the right moment to capture lightning in a bottle. It happened with essential punk doc The Decline of Western Civilization, it happened with Dylan’s Don’t Look Back and Chet Baker’s Let’s Get Lost, and it happened with 1976’s Heartworn Highways.

Sometimes, a documentary maker is present at precisely the right moment to capture lightning in a bottle. It happened with essential punk doc The Decline of Western Civilization, it happened with Dylan’s Don’t Look Back and Chet Baker’s Let’s Get Lost, and it happened with 1976’s Heartworn Highways.

The iconic performance documentary saw filmmaker James Szalapski travel to Texas and Tennessee to capture the radical country artists reclaiming the genre via an appreciation for its heritage in folk and bluegrass and a rejection of the mainstream Nashville machine. Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Young, David Allan Coe, Steve Earle and many others appeared on both screen and soundtrack, where musical highlights include Clark’s brilliant “Desperados Waiting For A Train”, Young’s stirring “Alabama Highways” and Van Zandt’s emotional “Waiting Around To Die”.

The hard living – and hard partying – lifestyles of outlaw country’s figureheads are...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 L.A. Freeway
    4:33
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  • 2 Lightnin' Lick
    1:34
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  • 3 Ohoopee River Bottomland
    3:21
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  • 4 That Old Time Feeling
    4:51
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  • 5 Whiskey
    0:56
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  • 6 Waitin' Round to Die
    2:35
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  • 7 I Still Sing the Old Songs
    3:41
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  • 8 Intro (to Desperadoes Waiting for a Train)
    0:16
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  • 9 Desperadoes Waiting for a Train
    4:35
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  • 10 Bluebird Wine
    4:11
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  • 11 Alabama Highway
    5:04
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  • 12 Intro (to Pancho and Lefty)
    0:13
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  • 13 Pancho and Lefty
    4:14
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  • 14 Texas Cookin'
    3:29
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  • 15 Charlie's Place (Gamble's Story)
    4:33
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  • 16 The Black Label Blues
    2:44
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  • 17 All these Guards All Drive Cadillacs!
    0:31
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  • 18 River
    2:14
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  • 19 One for the One
    4:19
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  • 20 Darlin' Commit Me
    3:20
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  • 21 Ballad of Laverne and Captain Flint
    3:28
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  • 22 I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry
    3:32
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  • 23 Mercenary Song
    2:43
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  • 24 Intro (to Elija's Church)
    0:13
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  • 25 Elijah's Church
    4:24
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  • 26 Silent Night
    3:56
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