![]() ![]() “As I was leaving, he said, ‘Hey, Tamara, there’s two boxes at the door for you.’ I opened them and saw all these handwritten journals and a shoebox full of cassette tapes. “Two days after Susanna died, I was at Guy’s house,” Saviano says. ![]() ![]() On Spacek’s 1983 album, Hangin’ Up My Heart, she included a song written by Susanna Clark. The Oscar-winning actress grew up in Quitman, less than 100 miles from Susanna’s hometown of Atlanta. As he wrote in a song about his father: “My hand burned for the Randall knife/There in the bottom drawer/And I found a tear for my father’s life/And all that it stood for.”Ĭlark could write, but so could Susanna, whose journal entries underpin Saviano’s film, with a lyrical narrative voiced by Sissy Spacek. Susanna was also a gifted visual artist, painting the covers for Willie Nelson’s Stardust album and Emmylou Harris’ dreamy Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town.Ĭlark loathed what he considered the crass commercial country spawned by Nashville, preferring the serenity and poetry of folk music. Kathy Mattea recorded Susanna’s “Come from the Heart” and took it to No. Susanna reveled in Van Zandt’s mysticism and wrote songs, Saviano says, that enjoyed greater commercial success than those written by Clark and Van Zandt. ![]()
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