Townes Van Zandt is one of favorite singer-songwriters of all time and a landmark in the classic country music scene. This also happens to be one of the most depressing songs ever written. Footage is from a 1975 documentary, Heartworn Highways, about the back-to-basics movement in country music happening in Austin and Nashville at the time.
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