Townes Van Zandt
This is Townes Van Zandt in “Heartworn Highway”, directed by James Szalapski. The song “Waitin’ Around To Die” from “For the Sake of the Song” album.”
“Sometimes I don’t know where this dirty road is taking me // Sometimes I can’t even see the reason why // I guess I keep on gamblin’, lots of booze and lots of ramblin’ // It’s easier than just a-waitin’ ’round to die.”
Fellow country outlaw musician Steve Earle called once called Townes Van Zandt: “the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.”
