Video: Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around To Die (full intro).

From an article in American Songwriter "Waiting Around To Die" "I was driving through Southern Vermont," recalls jam goddess/rocker Grace Potter, who's been cited for her own allegorical and deeply personal writing. "It was the summer I got my driver's license, so this was a total freedom drive. I didn't need to be anywhere and I was just driving. "There was a cassette in this pile that said 'Townes,' and I had no idea. I didn't know whose it was… just figured it [...]

Townes Van Zandt was one of the greatest songwriters ever. While there are now tons of audio recordings of Townes' work, thanks to many reissues and releases after his tragic death, there is very little video of him, especially in his prime from the early to mid 1970s. Townes' best moments on film were captured in the 1975 documentary Heartworn Highways (which was released in 1981). This excellent movie looks at the lives of Texas country singers such as Charlie Daniels, David Allen Coe, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, and Rodney Crowell. The documentary is on DVD [...]

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