Without Getting Killed or Caught

Jul 23, 2021

1h 35m

★ 0.0

Townes is her soul. Guy is her heart.

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Music

Production Companies

Slow Uvalde Films

Without Getting Killed or Caught Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

Guy Clark

Self (archive footage)

Susanna Clark

Self (archive footage)

Townes Van Zandt

Self

Rodney Crowell

Self

Steve Earle

Self

Terry Allen

Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)

Sissy Spacek

Self

Jo Harvey Allen

Self

Vince Gill

Self

Verlon Thompson

Self - Sugar Hill Records Founder

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