HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS and HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS REVISITED
coming to DVD on April 6th

Exploring the roots of outlaw country music, offering rare insight into the lives of pioneering musicians who set the bar for those to come.

It is said that the best music and the best whiskey come from the same part of the country.

HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS (1975) intimately explores the roots of outlaw country music, offering rare insight into the lives of pioneering musicians who set the bar for those to come.

The film portrays an emotional landscape driven by music and joins these artists in their lives at home, in the studio and on stage, authentically depicting a community rarely entered by outsiders.

This classic documentary features stirring performances from legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Steve Young, Rodney Crowell, Gamble Rogers, Steve Earle, Barefoot Jerry and the Charlie Daniels Band.

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2016 marked the 40th anniversary of the seminal music documentary, HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS ,a film that captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70s. Today, HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS REVISITED explores and celebrates the authenticity and spirit of that legendary film via a community of contemporary musicians creating music in Nashville, Tennessee.

In HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS REVISITED, the filmmakers reunite with Heartworn originals: Guy Clark, Steve Young, and David Allan Coe while focusing on the next generation of "outlaws": John McCauley, Jonny Fritz, Josh Hedley, Justin Townes Earle, Shovels & Rope, Langhorne Slim, Robert Ellis, Andrew Combs, Shelly Colvin, Phil Hummer and others who honor the tradition of their predecessors while forging a highway all their own.