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.
Guy Clark
as Self (archive footage)
Susanna Clark
as Self (archive footage)
Townes Van Zandt
as Self (archive footage)
Rodney Crowell
as Self
Steve Earle
as Self
Terry Allen
as Self
Sissy Spacek
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
Jo Harvey Allen
as Self
Vince Gill
as Self
Verlon Thompson
as Self
Barry Poss
as Self - Sugar Hill Records Founder
