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7 unusual facts about Heartworn Highways


Barefoot Jerry

Wayne Moss appears as "Barefoot Jerry" along with Charlie Daniels, Guy Clark and David Allan Coe in the 1981 music documentary, Heartworn Highways.

Catfish Records

The company also handled DVD releases for projects including Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey, and the award winning alt country documentary, Heartworn Highways.

Heartworn Highways

The end of the movie shows a drinking party that starts Christmas Eve and ends sometime Christmas Day at Guy Clark's house in Nashville with Guy, Susanna Clark, Steve Young, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Jim McGuire (playing the dobro), along with several other guests.

Then the camera man, sound recorder and director join David Allan Coe and film him playing a gig at the Tennessee State Prison where he admits to being a former inmate and tells a story of being there and seems to bring out friends of his onto the stage who still are inmates there and they perform a gospel number "Thank You Jesus" that they used to sing in the yard.

Larry Jon Wilson

Wilson appears in the documentary film Heartworn Highways recorded 1975-1976, where he is filmed recording the song "Ohoopee River Bottomland".

Ohoopee River

Wilson also sings the song in the 1980 documentary, Heartworn Highways.

Waiting 'Round to Die

The song appears on the classic documentary of 1970's outlaw country music, Heartworn Highways, where Van Zandt is seen performing in his Austin, Texas home with his girlfriend Cindy, who later became his second wife, and his good friend the "Walking Blacksmith" Seymore Washington.


Gamble Rogers

He appeared in James Szalapski's 1976 country music documentary film Heartworn Highways, performing an onstage comic monologue followed by "Black Label Blues."


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