I didn't know that; nice! I knew of the film before the song, because I started listening to Hank Williams a few years after having already seen most of David Lynch's work, and always assumed that the two titles are unrelated. The irony is that Lost Highway, one of Hank Williams' signature songs, was not actually written by him, but by Leon Payne, so it is a cover.JackwithOneEye wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 3:10 pm whenever David Lynch talks about the origins of Lost Highway,
he mentions the words Lost Highway in Barry Gifford's Night People being an inspiration,
but just about never mentions that when Gifford used it in Night People, it was in reference to Hank Williams' song on the radio.
As Colin Escott writes in his book about Hank Williams (a quote from Wikipedia): "In recent years, 'Lost Highway' has been the title of several books, a stage show, a record label, and a television series. In 1997, director David Lynch used it as a film title. It's seen as one of Hank's defining records, if not a defining moment in country music, which makes it ironic that it barely dented the charts on release and doubly ironic that it's not even one of Hank's songs."