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On a cold Wednesday night in Austin, Texas, Jon Dee Graham nestles into a floral print sofa with his son, William, performing with him. Hugging a guitar, he thanks the few dozen Facebook Live viewers whoâve been listening. He shouts, he laughs, and he sings of moonlit skies and Amsterdam sunshine âsweeter than Van Gogh yellow.â But itâs all bittersweet.
The past year has been a shadow of the musicianâs normal life. He starts his livestream at 7 p.m. every Wednesday. Thatâs when, for almost 25 years, heâs taken the stage at The Continental Club â the same stage where, for $2, he would hear Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Heartworn Highways Remains a Powerful Document of Country Musicâs Outlaw Movement A restored version of the classic documentary is available Friday via the Belcourtâs virtual cinema Tweet Share
Country musicâs outlaw movement has been mythologized, valorized and criticized time and time again. An essential artifact and document of that scene and sound is filmmaker James Szalapskiâs long-inaccessible documentary
Heartworn Highways, a film with as much of a devoted cult as the music itself. Most of the more canonized names are just a whisper on the wind here â you wonât find Willie, Waylon or Merle in the doc, nor the faces of the recently departed Jerry Jeff Walker and Billy Joe Shaver. But that allows for a perhaps more honest and authentic depiction of a musical movement, examining not from the top down but from the true underground of the time. Unavailable or only accessible in low quality for many years, this country musi
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Editor’s Note: The Saxon Pub in Austin celebrated its 30th anniversary in March. This story, written just prior to the pandemic, was scheduled to run in our Spring 2000 issue, but COVID prevented publication of that issue. We’re running the piece now so readers can appreciate the venue’s history and longevity. The Saxon Pub has been closed to audiences since mid-March but has hosted some of its artist friends for livestream performances. Follow them on for updates on how you can support the venue and the Austin music community.
It’s a cool February afternoon at Austin’s Saxon Pub, and all is quiet, save for the venue’s founder and manager, Joe Ables, pawing through a large storage case. In that container sit three decades worth of Saxon-related documents he’s saved for reasons he’s never quite been able to articulate.