Archives for July 2025

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If you haven’t seen the old outlaw country music documentary Heartworn Highway, you have a lot in common with me, last week: You’re bereft.

See the whole thing: I will, again, once each with every music friend I have and every drug I dare to take.

Meanwhile, here’s one of the many great scenes, where Townes Van Zandt sings the first song he ever wrote, and brings a knowing old man to tears.

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Writing Boots is off on a lil summer sabbatical next week. Back here July 14.