Heartworn Highways and Georgia's Backroads
Larry Jon in film and on TV
Heartworn Highways
... has been hailed by critics as a spot-on documentary on some of the key figures of the mid-70s Nashville Country Outlaw movement. It features a number of young talents who had just started out in Music City, singing the songs they themselves had written: Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Earl, Rodney Crowell, John Hiatt, David Allan Coe - and Larry Jon Wilson.
Larry Jon in Heartworn Highways, 1975
Larry Jon is shown in the studio re-recording the funky Country-Soul-Rocker Ohoopee River Bottomland from his first Monument LP New Beginnings especially for the movie, apparently after a very short night.
Taken from the liner notes by Philip Schopper from the re-issue on Hacktone Records:
"Jim and Graham were in love with the deep, corrugated voice of Larry Jon Wilson. Knowing it would be at its deepest in the morning, Jim wanted to record the session as early as possible, before Larry Jon had much of a chance to use his voice at all. He wanted it deep and rusty with unuse.
The session turned into a bit of a lesson in "be careful what you wish for".
... This song was the first thing we were going to shoot for the movie, which Jim had been envisioning for months, and we worked like late-season beavers lighting and setting up for the arrival of Larry Jon Wilson. Then we waited. And we waited.
After an hour of standing around in the bitter cold ... finally Graham jumped in a car and went to the motel in which Larry Jon was staying and, quite literally, dragged him out of bed. The night before, it turned out, Larry Jon had a gig that rolled happily into a party, which ended some fuzzy moments before dawn.
Going to work in a studio was not his idea of post-party fun. But Graham cajoled and implored, and Jim got his wish.
Larry Jon came to the studio having said nothing much more all morning than "What? Now?" and "Yeah, yeah, I'm coming". Somehow, the whole thing just worked - his performance was amazing and now we felt like we just might be on to something great after all."
Filmed from Dec 22nd, 1975 to Jan 14, 1976, the movie wasn't released until 1981.
Georgia's Backroads
Larry Jon hosted this Georgia Public Broadcasting two episodes program on Georgia's backroads. He wrote the title song Georgia's Backroads and he can be heard playing guitar versions of some of his songs in the background in both episodes. Let Me Sing My Song To You, Broomstraw Philosophers and Scuppernong Wine, Poor Children's Treasures can be heard in episode one.
In episode two they actually filmed him doing some songs and he can be seen standing next to an old farm house singing and playing a verse of Ohoopee River Bottomland and in another scene he sings The Ballad of Handy Mackey. A he also sings a verse of a song (maybe called) Close To Home.
Georgia's Backroads, GPB 1998
Inspired by the New Georgia Guide, Georgia's Backroads travels from the mountains of the north to the orchards and vineyards of middle Georgia. Along the way, Georgia's Backroads guide, singer/songwriter Larry Jon Wilson shares historical anecdotes and original songs.
More Georgia Backroads, GPS 2005
Georgia backroads promise an adventure around every curve, as you'll see in GPB’s latest Georgia Legacy series production, More Georgia Backroads. Hosted by singer/song-writer Larry Jon Wilson, More Georgia Backroads is the follow-up to the highly popular program Georgia Backroads. From the scenic beauty of a southwest Georgia cotton field to the story of Rock Eagle.
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