Without Getting Killed or Caught

Townes is her soul. Guy is her heart.

Without Getting Killed or Caught — Plot

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.

• Release date
• July 23, 2021
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Music
• Director
• Paul Whitfield

Without Getting Killed or Caught — Cast

Guy Clark Self (archive footage)

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Susanna Clark Self (archive footage) Townes Van Zandt Self (archive footage) Rodney Crowell Self Steve Earle Self

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Terry Allen Self Sissy Spacek Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice) Jo Harvey Allen Self