Daniel Antopolsky: the drifter who swapped country music for chickens

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 heardDaniel 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 ne...

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