Heartworn Highways

Guy Clark tunes his guitar in a lamplit living room as a Texas evening deepens outside. David Allan Coe rasps "Jealousy" with a whiskey bottle for accompaniment. A baby-faced Steve Earle is just beginning, while Larry Jon Wilson knows the weight of every note. The camera drifts from Nashville's smoke-filled bars to quiet porches where songs are born. There's no host, no staged interviews—just music rising from the soil like oil, and people who don't perform these songs so much as breathe them.