Howdy Pardner! This Saturday mosey on down to the Fairfax district in good old LA and check out The Cinefamily Country Christmas Party!
The night will be far from silent! After a screening of James Szalapski’s outlaw country classic Heartworn Highways we will be graced by live sets from renegade picker Steve Young and I See Hawks in L.A.!
God bless James Szalapski for craftingHeartworn Highways (shot in ’75, released in ’81) because today’s audience is more receptive than the one that existed during its bleak, brief original theatrical release. Heartworn is for music lovers that like to jam tunes, get wasted and watch dogs bark and trucks pass by, for people who like hyper-analyze Charlie Daniels’ wardrobe. Check out Steve Earle (just past being a teenager) rail on “Mercenary Song”, follow Townes Van Zandt on a guided shotgun tour of the gargantuan rabbit holes on his property, then pay attention as David Allen Coe chews out some prisoners and delivers them gospel. At the time Heartworn Highways was released, the music was labeled New Country, but the reality is that this is country music at its finest, teetering on the edge of relevancy and engaging the audience on their terms, dixie-fried, southbound and down.
