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Background -

Release Notes:
• 20 page booklet with essay by Sam Sweet interviewing artists and documentary creators and crew
• 2 x LP on black vinyl
• Produced for re-release 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.

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.

Heartworn Highways is the sonic companion to the classic 1981 documentary of the same name. David Gorman goes out of his way to tell listeners/purchasers that this disc is not the soundtrack to the film because there never was one. The label "had to go back to the original film elements and Nagra tapes with the film's editor and producer to create one," according to Gorman. They "spent months working between them and an audio restoration engineer in New York to make a stand-alone album out of audio that works perfectly well while watching the film but would sound horribly disjointed otherwise. In fact, most of the performances in the film are edited down to about 1/4 their original length." This is key because it must have been a very painful process at time--especially during the 'round table' recordings on Christmas Eve at the end of the album. The microphone was literally in motion during the entire evening, trying to capture whoever was singing lead; but you'd never know it by listening to the CD. The breathtaking sound quality is a credit to restoration engineer Alan Silverman. A number of performances were left off in order to make this fit onto a single disc. What is here is a vintage treasure trove of the then-emerging singer/songwriter movement from the (mostly) American South. What is most important to note is that these performances were recorded for the documentary; they are not licensed recordings from a catalog. Some of the artists included here are no longer with us, but their performances (e.g., Townes Van Zandt's "Waitin' 'Round to Die" and "Pancho and Lefty," Gamble Rogers' "Charlie's Place" and "The Black Label Blues") are chilling and top-notch. Yet, they are in context because these informal performances are stunning throughout. Some of the truly notable ones are by song writers who are not well known even now among the general populus -- for example, the great Steve Young, who decided on deeply moving covers of Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" along with his own "Alabama Highway". Youngis the guy who wrote "Seven Bridges Road," "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" (the anthem of Waylon's outlaw movement that didn't include him--though, who was an outlaw long before it became a marketing concept) --and his "Montgomery in the Rain." is also here. Larry Jon Wilson makes an appearance with his deep backwoods "Ohoopee River Bottomland," which is equal parts Tony Joe White and Lightnin' Hopkins, all of it wrapped in Young's swampy Georgia voice and guitar playing. Guy Clark is heard on five cuts, 3 of them well known, but "Ballad of Laverne and Captain Flint" makes it too. Other writers here include David Allan Coe and John Hiatt, both of whom originally hailed from the Midwest. Hearing Coe in this setting is very rewarding, almost separated from his bullshit image, just playing and singing his utterly moving songs, especially "I Still Sing the Old Songs," done with only an acoustic guitar. The glimpses listeners get of Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle apart from the slick Nashville production on their own records is especially refreshing. This is a timeless collection that truly stands on its own whether or not you saw the film in 1981 (it is available on DVD thank goodness). It's a no-jive set of songwriters doing what they do best away from the hype, the myth-making, and the self-destructive impulses that have plagued many of them. - Thomas Jurek LPs made by LIGHT IN THE ATTIC RECORDS (LITA) Records, in the USA
LPs released in 2016 (Remastered Issue - comes complete)
LPs are recorded in STEREO Record Catalog Number: LITA 146 This listing is for a super rare, out of print 2-LP title - a FACTORY SEALED and assumed in mint overall condition title PRESSED and ISSUED by LIGHT IN THE ATTIC Records of a highly collectible title from their catalog - a superb title featuring -

Various Artists (see below for details)

2-LP Title -

Heartworn Highways

Track Listing -

A1. Guy Clark - L.A. Freeway
A2. No Artist - "...That's A Lightnin' Lick...”
A3. Larry Jon Wilson - Ohoopee River Bottomland
A4. Guy Clark - That Old Time Feeling
A5. No Artist - "...People Condemn Whiskey...”
A6. Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' 'Round To Die
B1. David Allan Coe - I Still Sing The Old Songs
B2. No Artist - Intro
B3. Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting For A Train
B4. Rodney Crowell - Bluebird Wine
B5. Steve Young - Alabama Highway
C1. No Artist - Intro
C2. Townes Van Zandt - Pancho And Lefty
C3. Guy Clark - Texas Cookin’
C4. Gamble Rogers - Charlie's Place (Gamble's Story)
C5. Gamble Rogers - The Black Label Blues
C6. No Artist - "...These Guards All Drive Cadillacs!”
C7. David Allan Coe - River
C8. John Hiatt - One For The Road
D1. Steve Earle - Darlin' Commit Me
D2. Guy Clark  - Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint
D3. Steve Young - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
D4. Steve Earle - Mercenary Song
D5. No Artist - "...Would You Do Elijah's Church?”
D6. Steve Earle - Elijah's Church
D7. Rodney Crowell - Silent Night
Performers / Credits / Other Information -
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sealion Films
• Copyright (c) – Light In The Attic Records & Distribution, LLC
Two LPs in double-wide single sleeve. 
Includes 20 page, LP-sized booklet with essay on making of the film, credits, and bibliography.
Hype stickers with info about film and soundtrack.
Reissued for the 40th Anniversary
• Barcode (On hype sticker): 826853014618
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A (Etched)): LITA-146-A 251271(2)
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B (Etched)): LITA-146-B 251272(2)
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side C (Etched)): LITA-146-C 251273(2)
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side D (Etched)): LITA-146-D 251274(2)
CONDITION Details: The LP jacket is in mint overall condition. No cut out marks, No seam splits, No discoloration - even the plastic outer wrap is in perfect shape. The jacket has 2 hype stickers on the front cover. FACTORY SEALED - pictures with this listing are of the ACTUAL ITEM. The LPs are assumed to be in mint overall condition as this item is FACTORY SEALED!
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