Guy Clark | Artist

Guy Clark was an American folk and country singer-songwriter and luthier, born 1941 in Monahans Texas. He released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. In the late 1960's he and his wife Susanna Clark settled in Nashville where he helped create the Americana music genre. His songs "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting for a Train" helped launch his career and were covered by numerous performers. Clark had been a mentor to such other singers as Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell, including organising Earle's first job as a writer in Nashville. In the 1970s, the Clarks' home in Nashville was an open house for songwriters and musicians and it features in the film Heartworn Highways, an evocation of the songwriter scene at that time. Clark's recording career is marked by many fine releases, kicking of with his magnificent 1975 debut album Old No 1. Other standouts include Boats to Build, Dublin Blues, The Dark, Some Days the Song Writes You, and the archival album Live From Austin TX. He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album with his final album My Favourite Picture of You. On his passing in May 2016, aged 74, the New York Times described him as "a king of the Texas troubadours", declaring his body of work "as indelible as that of anyone working in the Americana idiom in the last decades of the 20th century".

Artist Website: wikipedia/Guy_Clark

Featured Albums: Guy Clark

Related Artists: Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris

Video Clips: LA Freeway, Old Friends, Dublin Blues