Mandatory viewing for any country music fan. Featuring early performances by Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, The Charlie Daniels Band, David Allan Coe, and several other members of the “Outlaw Country” movement, this previously hard-to-find documentary chronicles intimate moments with the musicians who changed the sound of Nashville forever.

From glimpses of their hard-partying, friendly-pickin' ways to seeing Van Zandt bring the legendary Uncle Seymour Washington to tears with a heartfelt rendition of “Waiting Around to Die,” Szalapski’s camera captures every facet of this important cultural moment just before it broke.

Reviews

"An essential artifact and document of that scene and sound is filmmaker James Szalapski's long-inaccessible documentary Heartworn Highways, a film with as much of a devoted cult as the music itself." - Nashville Scene

"Heartworn Highways fell in line with the great hangout movies of the past 50 years when authority started to lose its power and a few moments of creativity were worth more than its weight in gold." - Fresh Fiction