Without Getting Killed or Caught

Without Getting Killed or Caught

95 mins | Documentary, Music | March 18, 2021

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.

Without Getting Killed or Caught

95 mins | Documentary, Music | March 18, 2021

Without Getting Killed or Caught
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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Slow Uvalde Films
Original title Without Getting Killed or Caught
Directors Paul Whitfield, Tamara Saviano
Writers Bart Knaggs, Tamara Saviano, Sandra Adair

Cast

Guy Clark

as Himself (archive footage)

Susanna Clark

as Herself (archive footage)

Townes Van Zandt

as Himself (archive footage)

Rodney Crowell

as Himself

Steve Earle

as Himself

Terry Allen

as Himself

Sissy Spacek

as Narrator

Jo Harvey Allen

as Herself

Vince Gill

as Himself

Verlon Thompson

as Himself

Barry Poss

as Himself - Sugar Hill Records Founder