Without Getting Killed or Caught
“Townes is her soul. Guy is her heart.”
2021•1h 35m•5.5•Released
DocumentaryMusic
Follow Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy, the Pancho to Van Zandt’s Lefty, struggling to establish himself as the Dylan Thomas of American music, while Susanna pens hit songs and paints album covers for top artists, and Townes spirals in self-destruction after writing some of Americana music’s most enduring and influential ballads.
Director
Tamara Saviano
Writer
Tamara Saviano, Bart Knaggs
Languages
English
Studio
Slow Uvalde Films
Cast
Guy Clark
Self (archive footage)
Susanna Clark
Self (archive footage)
Townes Van Zandt
Self (archive footage)
Rodney Crowell
Self
Steve Earle
Self
Terry Allen
Self
Sissy Spacek
Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
Jo Harvey Allen
Self
Vince Gill
Self
Verlon Thompson
Self
Barry Poss
Self - Sugar Hill Records Founder
Production
Company
Slow Uvalde Films
Producer
Tamara Saviano
Producer
Paul Whitfield
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