

Also available is a $35 package that includes three days of streaming plus access to interviews with filmmakers Tamara Saviano and Paul Whitfield as well as artists including Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle and Sarah Jarosz. That's the day the movie will begin streaming at, at $20 for one-day access or $25 for three days. Guy Clark, who died in May 2016 at age 74, would have turned 80 on Nov. AND, for signing up we will send you a rare early recording of Guy singing “Step Inside My House,” the first song he wrote in Houston in the mid 1960s.The long and winding journey of "Without Getting Killed or Caught," a documentary about the lives and music of legendary Texas songwriters Guy and Susanna Clark, finally reaches an endpoint this weekend when the film becomes available for on-demand streaming worldwide. Sign up for the email newsletter for updates. The real emotional zing, however, comes from Susanna’s pained remembrances, culled from her private journals and secret audio diaries, as well as taped conversations that Susanna made of the trio and of the “salon” that regularly gathered around them-all serving as witnesses to this seemingly fated intersection of love, art, and tragedy. The film, partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign, makes good use of Clark’s songs, family photographs and archives, vintage film footage, and radio talk shows on which Clark appeared solo and in tandem with Van Zandt. Freeway”) also offers poignant reflections from Clark’s closest friends and musical allies, most prominently Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, Verlon Thompson, and Terry and Jo Harvey Allen, as well as record executive Barry Poss. Without Getting Killed or Caught (the title comes from Clark’s song, “L.A. Saviano, a longtime figure on the Americana scene as a journalist, artist manager, and Grammy-winning producer, had the complete cooperation of Clark, who sat for interviews on and off camera. Based on the diaries of Susanna Clark and Saviano’s 2016 book Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark, the film tells the saga from Susanna’s point of view, with Academy Award- winner Sissy Spacek voicing Susanna’s narration.


This 95-minute documentary follows 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.
