Guy Clark
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Biography
[Edit]Guy Clark doesn't just write songs, he crafts them with the kind of hands-on care and respect that a master carpenter (a favorite image of his) would have when faced with a stack of rare hardwood. Clark works slowly and with strict attention to detail — his output has been sparse since he first signed to RCA in the early '70s — but he has produced an impressive collection of timeless gems, leaving very little waste behind. His albums have never met much commercial success, but the emotional level of his work consistently transcends sales figures and musical genres. He remains the kind of songwriter whom young artists study and seasoned writers (and listeners) admire.
Clark was born in the West Texas town of Monahans, where he was raised mostly by his grandmother (his mother worked and his father was in the Army), who ran the town hotel. One of her residents was an oil well driller who would later end up the subject of one of Clark's most moving and stunningly beautiful songs, "Desperados Waiting for a Train." Many of Clark's songs, in fact, have centered around his days growing up in West Texas, including "Texas 1947" (from his debut album) and the 1992 song "Boats to Build," which harked back to a summer job he once had as a teenager on the Gulf Coast.
The first songs Clark learned were mostly in Spanish. Later, when he moved to Houston and began working the folk music circuit, he met fellow songwriter Townes Van Zandt (the two often toured together until Van Zandt's death in 1997) and blues singers Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. It was here that Clark began playing and writing his sturdy brand of folk- and blues-influenced country music.
In the late '60s, Clark moved to California, living first in San Francisco (where he met and married his wife Susanna, a painter and songwriter) and then in Los Angeles, where he worked in the Dopyera brothers' Dobro factory. Tiring quickly of Southern California (sentiments he expressed in another of his classics, "L.A. Freeway"), he and Susanna packed up and headed for Nashville in 1971, where he picked up work as a writer with publishing companies and, eventually, a recording contract with RCA. Clark's first album, Old No. 1, came out in 1975, a few years after Jerry Jeff Walker had turned "L.A. Freeway" into a minor hit. By this time Clark was considered one of the most promising young writers in country music, and while he didn't live in Texas anymore, the state's influence still ran thick in his blood.
Clark recorded one more album for RCA, Texas Cookin', in 1976 before switching to Warner Bros. for his next three albums, released between 1978 and 1983. Three of his songs from these albums cracked the Top 100. By the mid-'80s, however, a number of his songs had been made into hits by country stars such as Johnny Cash, David Allan Coe, Ricky Skaggs (who took "Heartbroke" to number one), George Strait, Vince Gill, and the Highwaymen. Clark continued to work as a writer but didn't record again until 1988's Old Friends, released by Sugar Hill. He then switched labels once more, this time to Asylum, which released his 1992 album Boats to Build as part of their acclaimed American Explorer series.
His eighth album, Dublin Blues, came out in 1995, and among its finely crafted moments is a rereading of one of his most enduring songs, "Randall Knife," about the death of his father. Cold Dog Soup followed in 1999. Clark released Dark in 2002, followed by Workbench Songs in 2006. The DVD Live from Austin TX arrived the following year. A much needed survey of Clark's key songs covering the years 1975 to 1995 called Hindsight 21-20 appeared from Raven Records late in 2007. His 11th studio album, Somedays the Song Writes You, arrived in 2009. The year 2011 found Clark releasing Songs and Stories (recorded live at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville), an intimate recap of his 40 years as a singer, songwriter, and storyteller. Clark's wife Susanna passed in 2012. A year later in 2013, Clark's first new studio album in four years, My Favorite Picture of You, was released, an intimate set of songs showing that Clark at the age of 71 was still a master songwriter, as good and as elegantly moving as ever. ~ Kurt Wolff & Steve Leggett, Rovi
Title: Guy Clark: The Platinum Collection
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Outlaw Country
Title: The Essential Guy Clark
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Outlaw Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Great American Music Hall San Francisco 1988
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Better Days
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Outlaw Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Workbench Songs
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Songs and Stories
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Boats to Build
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Outlaw Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Americana Master Series: Best of the Sugar Hill Years
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country
Title: My Favorite Picture of You
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The South Coast of Texas
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Outlaw Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Dublin Blues
Artist: Guy Clark
Genre: New Age, Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Outlaw Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Together At the Bluebird Café / Together At the Bluebird Cafe
Artist: Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Guy Clark
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country
Title: FolkScene, Los Angeles (Live, November 13, 1988)
Artist: Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark
Genre: World Music, Alternative Country, Folk
Title: Let Me Take You Down (Live, California '88)
Artist: Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Collections
Title: Precious Child - The Story of Christmas
Genre: Gospel, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Great Gentlemen Sing Folk and Roots
Genre:
Title: Cool As Folk
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Chill Out Singer Songwriter
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Golden Alternative Country
Genre: Country
Title: Country Truckin'
Genre: Country
Title: Alternative Country Masterpieces
Genre: Country
Title: Coffee House Classics - Alt Country
Genre: Country
Title: American Roots Singers and Songs
Genre: Country
Title: Sugar Hill 50
Genre: Country
Title: Hits of Alternative Country
Genre: Country
Title: Country America
Genre: Country
Title: Live from the Old Town School, Vol. 2
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Classic Country - Critics Hall of Fame
Genre: Country
Title: Poet - A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
Genre: Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Ride That Train
Genre: Country
Title: Texas Fed, Texas Bred
Genre: Country
Title: Classic Country - Sounds of the Deep South
Genre: Country
Title: Country Hits of the 80s
Genre: Country
Title: Texas Fed, Texas Bred, Vol. 2
Genre: Country
Title: Country Heartbreakers
Genre: Country
Title: Classic Country For the Workplace
Genre: Country
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1: Volume One
Genre: World Music
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1: Volume Two
Genre: World Music
Title: Brewed In Texas, Vol. 2
Genre: Country
Title: Let's Step Outside
Genre: Country
Title: Texans Live from Mountain Stage
Genre: Country
Title: Southern Songs - Bluegrass
Genre: Country
Title: The Darkest Classic Country
Genre: Country
Title: Traditional Bluegrass
Genre: Country
Title: Classic Country - Love Songs
Genre: Country
Title: Six Strings Twanging: Country Guitar and Dobro
Genre: Country
Title: Bluegrass Mandolin
Genre: Country
Title: Country Kitchen
Genre: Country
Title: Bluegrass Ballads
Genre: Country
Title: Hits of Outlaw Country
Genre: Country
Title: Bluegrass Royalty
Genre: Country
Title: Amazing Folk for the Family
Genre: Folk
Title: Bluegrass Cowboy Songs
Genre: Country
Title: Country Music USA
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Prairie Noir
Genre: New Age
Title: The Rookie
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: 500 Song Country Collection (CD 2)
Genre: Country
Title: 500 Song Country Collection (CD 6)
Genre: Country
Title: Country Tonight Songs 50
Title: 100 Hits Country (CD2)
Genre: Country
Title: 100 Hits Country (CD3)
Genre: Country
Title: Haynes Ultimate Guide To Country (CD2)
Genre: Country
Title: Texans: Live From Mountain Stage
Genre: Blues
Title: The Oxford American Southern Music Issue 2014
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: 100 Hits: Country
Genre: Country
Title: Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: In Case You Missed It 15 Years Of Dualtone
Genre: Soul, World Music, Country, Indie, Folk
Title: Heartworn Highways (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Blues, Country, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: My Only Friend Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: '70s Country Essentials (CD2)
Genre: Country
Title: Outlaw Country Essentials (CD1)
Genre: Country
Title: Outlaw Country Essentials (CD2)
Genre: Country
Title: Hoodoo Dark Blues (CD1)
Featuring albums
Title: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver - Live
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Alternative Country
Title: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 1: Volume Three
Genre: World Music
Title: Texans Live from Mountain Stage
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Country, Alternative Country
Title: Heartworn Highways (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Country, Alternative Country
Title: In Case You Missed It: 15 Years of Dualtone
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Singin' With Emmylou 1
Artist: Emmylou Harris
Genre: World Music, Country, Country Rock, Alternative Country, Folk
Title: Country Music - A Film by Ken Burns (The Soundtrack) [Deluxe]
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country