![]() As Susanna explains, "Guy and I were married, Guy and Townes were best friends, but Townes and I were soulmates." It would be glib to call what they had a love triangle, so the directors do their best to show the rocky foundations (prior marriages, suicide, murder) because it's important to how they ended up so codependent. That triumvirate is a part of musical history, but Saviano and co-director Paul Whitfield show that infrastructure was sadly rickety. There was his then-girlfriend and future wife, Susanna Talley, and their best friend, Townes Van Zandt. He was stuck in Los Angeles, hating everything about it, but at least he had an emotional support system around him. 1, it was written at a low point in his life. Freeway." Written in 1970, made famous by Jerry Jeff Walker in 1972, and finally recorded by Clark for his 1975 debut album, Old No. ![]() ![]() The documentary (and co-director Tamara Saviano's 2016 Clark biography from which it is adapted) takes its title from the lyrics to his first commercial success, "L.A. Guy Clark may be a certified hall-of-famer now, but as Without Getting Killed or Caught reveals, it was a thorny path for the man called the dean of Texas songwriters, and one he didn't take alone. ![]() The history of country music is filled with legends that Nashville had no clue how to handle. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |