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Heartworn Highways (Original Soundtrack)

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Marcus David The country-music analogue to spending a night at Birdland in '54 or CBGB in '78. Favorite track: Pancho and Lefty.

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1.	LA Freeway 04:32	buy track
2.	...That's A Lightnin' Lick... 01:34	buy track
3.	Ohoopee River Bottomland 03:21	buy track
4.	That Old Time Feeling 04:51	buy track
5.	…people condemn whiskey… 00:55	buy track
6.	Waitin’ Round To Die 02:35	buy track
7.	I Still Sing The Old Songs 03:41	buy track
8.	Intro 00:16	buy track
9.	Desperadoes Waiting for a Train 04:34	buy track
10.	Bluebird Wine 04:11	buy track
11.	Alabama Highway 05:03	buy track
12.	Intro II 00:13	buy track
13.	Pancho and Lefty 04:13	buy track
14.	Texas Cookin’ 03:29	buy track
15.	Charlie’s Place (Gamble’s Story) 04:32	buy track
16.	The Black Label Blues 02:43	buy track
17.	…these guards all drive Cadillacs! 00:30	buy track
18.	River 02:13	buy track
19.	One for the One 04:18	buy track
20.	Darlin’ Commit Me 03:19	buy track
21.	Ballad of Laverne and Captain Flint 03:28	buy track
22.	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry 03:31	buy track
23.	Mercenary Song 02:43	buy track
24.	…would you do Elijah’s Church? 00:12	buy track
25.	Elijah's Church 04:23	buy track
26.	Silent Night 03:55	buy track

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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 played out on screen as we visit Van Zandt’s Austin trailer, see Coe play in Tennessee State Prison, join the gang in Nashville’s notorious Wig Wam Tavern and witness a liquor-fuelled Christmas at Clark’s house. No wonder the film’s original tagline read: “The best music and the best whiskey come from the same part of the country”.

Outside of a couple festival screenings, the movie remained unreleased for five years after its completion, finally hitting screens in 1981 and finding a cult audience ever since.

First released in 2006 by Hacktone Records, we are proud to re-release the film’s stunning soundtrack on double vinyl and CD.

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released June 17, 2016

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