Once just a mysterious figure pictured alongside Townes Van Zandt, the ‘outlaw country’ musician has been holed up writing hundreds of songs on a Bordeaux farm – and they’re only just being heard
Daniel Antopolsky wasn’t afraid of drugs. “We had this great psilocybin mushroom that was growing in Athens,” he recalls of his time at the University of Georgia, 50 years ago. He would snort anything, swallow anything, smoke anything, but he was afraid of needles, so he wouldn’t inject anything. That saved his life, he thinks.
Back in the early 70s, Antopolsky was a longhair, floating around the fringes of the deep south’s singer-songwriter scene. There’s a famous picture, taken on Guy Clark’s front porch, that shows Townes Van Zandt playing a fiddle, Clark playing guitar, his wife Susanna singing, and on the far right a young man, the only one paying attention to the camera. That’s Antopolsky, the picture taken during a short period in 1972 – “it wasn’t that long, maybe five or six weeks; I’m a little fuzzy on memory” – when he was travelling around the US with Van Zandt.
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