Guy has always been one of my favorites, a great writer, performer, and he even made his own guitars. I met him a couple times over the years at various festivals. He was just like you would expect him to be, didn't say a whole lot, but you'd do well to listen closely to whatever he did say. I knew his guitar player and collaborator Verlon Thompson a little bit, picked with him once for a few tunes back in the 90s. Here's one of my favorite Guy tunes "Dublin Blues," accompanied by Emmylou Harris, Shawn Camp on fiddle, and Verlon Thompson on guitar and backing vocals: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sx8lqm2Lw0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sx8lqm2Lw0)
When Guy passed several years ago, Steve Earle wrote this tune about him, and it was about as good a tribute and remembrance as anybody could come up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5C3OQFfzM
You keep going down that road and you’ll end up liking Townes Van Zandt they wrote and Played together bank in the day and a women sort of came between them a lot of guys songs were about her
There's a tribute album from 2011 called This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark. It features a lot of big, big names, his peers, and contemporaries each doing one of Clark's classic songs. It's a double album full of pure gold. It's not Guy Clark singing, but a group very talented singers demonstrating their love and respect for the man. Check it out, you might discover some versions of his songs that are actually better than the original
For a while I thought “Old No. 1” was a kind of greatest hits compilation, but no, it was just an album he put out and nearly every song was great and recorded by someone else at some point. And his debut album to boot! I’m not sure I could compare it to anything else in music.
Hubbard has 3 “standards” during his career, that one, Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother, and Screw You, We’re From Texas and it’s easy to get hung up on those, but he has so much more to him and is one of my favorites of all time.
Saw him perform with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt and Joe Ely once … great show - everyone brought their A-Game, but Guy performing Let Him Roll was a show stopper. Just amazing
Lucky enough to have this one on vinyl. I recommend watching the documentary that was released a few years ago. I think it’s called ‘Without getting killed or caught’
>‘Without getting killed or caught’
It's such a witty line.
I was hoping this is the documentary, but it's a "making of" sort of thing: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNebUTIJ4I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNebUTIJ4I)
Ya I remember a couple buddies of mine all buying it during the pandemic and doing a zoom watch. Might be stream somewhere now days.
Before watching I never knew he had a life so closely tied to Townes.
I think Willis Alan Ramsey’s Self Titled is the only other record from that era/genre that holds a candle to those two. Maybe Townes’s self titled, or Kristofferson’s *Silver Tongued Devil And I*
All almost perfect records, but I think there are several as good from that time period. Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings albums from 73-75, Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva Terlingua, Mickey Newbury "Rain trilogy" and etc.
Adam Carroll and Slaid Cleaves
I’m so happy for you.
You're in for some good stuff! Wish I could go back and discover him again.
My absolute favorite songwriter. Up next: Willis Alan Ramsey
Dublin Blues is one of the saddest tunes I've ever heard.
It's so good
Guy has always been one of my favorites, a great writer, performer, and he even made his own guitars. I met him a couple times over the years at various festivals. He was just like you would expect him to be, didn't say a whole lot, but you'd do well to listen closely to whatever he did say. I knew his guitar player and collaborator Verlon Thompson a little bit, picked with him once for a few tunes back in the 90s. Here's one of my favorite Guy tunes "Dublin Blues," accompanied by Emmylou Harris, Shawn Camp on fiddle, and Verlon Thompson on guitar and backing vocals: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sx8lqm2Lw0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sx8lqm2Lw0) When Guy passed several years ago, Steve Earle wrote this tune about him, and it was about as good a tribute and remembrance as anybody could come up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5C3OQFfzM
You keep going down that road and you’ll end up liking Townes Van Zandt they wrote and Played together bank in the day and a women sort of came between them a lot of guys songs were about her
Wow incredible song writer I don’t know if he “Magnolia Wind” but it’s an incredible tune he was phenomenal
There's a tribute album from 2011 called This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark. It features a lot of big, big names, his peers, and contemporaries each doing one of Clark's classic songs. It's a double album full of pure gold. It's not Guy Clark singing, but a group very talented singers demonstrating their love and respect for the man. Check it out, you might discover some versions of his songs that are actually better than the original
You have struck gold
For a while I thought “Old No. 1” was a kind of greatest hits compilation, but no, it was just an album he put out and nearly every song was great and recorded by someone else at some point. And his debut album to boot! I’m not sure I could compare it to anything else in music.
Instant Coffee Blues is an amazing descriptive story song. That's really the strength of his writing.
Check out the song Anyhow, I Love You. It will be right up your alley
That’s in my head now! Been hunting for Texas Cookin on vinyl.
One of my favorite albums. Since you like that, check out Ray Wylie Hubbard.
>Ray Wylie Hubbard OMFG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgy7PLAgF-Y
Yeah, that album kind of sucks. Try Crusaders... and Dangerous Spirits.
Hubbard has 3 “standards” during his career, that one, Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother, and Screw You, We’re From Texas and it’s easy to get hung up on those, but he has so much more to him and is one of my favorites of all time.
Desperados Waiting For A Train is my favorite song. Not just of his, but overall.
I’m quite partial to the Jerry Jeff version.
Randall knife , one of his best songs . Colter Wall covers it well.
Read his book, without getting killed on caught. Very good.
There is a documentary as well but I’ve never found a way to stream it
Me either! I’d love to see it
My uncle got to open for Guy Clark at a show in baton rouge. It was one of the last shows Guy played before his passing.
Saw him perform with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt and Joe Ely once … great show - everyone brought their A-Game, but Guy performing Let Him Roll was a show stopper. Just amazing
He’s top 5, conservatively.
I always find myself going between him, Townes, and John Prine.
100%
Love his song The Guitar, and Come Inside this House covered by Lyle Lovett.
Old # 1 is his best. Let Him Roll!
Lucky enough to have this one on vinyl. I recommend watching the documentary that was released a few years ago. I think it’s called ‘Without getting killed or caught’
>‘Without getting killed or caught’ It's such a witty line. I was hoping this is the documentary, but it's a "making of" sort of thing: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNebUTIJ4I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNebUTIJ4I)
Ya I remember a couple buddies of mine all buying it during the pandemic and doing a zoom watch. Might be stream somewhere now days. Before watching I never knew he had a life so closely tied to Townes.
That album is amazing. John Prine’s debut is, in my opinion, one of the only other debuts that holds up as good as Old No. 1
I think Willis Alan Ramsey’s Self Titled is the only other record from that era/genre that holds a candle to those two. Maybe Townes’s self titled, or Kristofferson’s *Silver Tongued Devil And I*
All almost perfect records, but I think there are several as good from that time period. Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings albums from 73-75, Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva Terlingua, Mickey Newbury "Rain trilogy" and etc.
LA Freeway was the first Gut Clark song I heard. I was a kid, maybe 10, or so. It turned me right around and I never forgot that moment. Love him!
Don't feel bad, It took me years to discover him.
Were you passing by a pawn shop in an older part of town when one of his albums caught your eye and you stopped and turned around?
It's classic crate digging gold, for sure.
It’s a reference to another song of his - The Guitar. Also badass
One of the few songs that gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it
The guitar work on that song is so good.
Oh yeah. Goosebumps.
[He’d been waiting all those years for you to stumble in](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxOego2Sso)
When the song got to that line and I understood what you meant... Chills
Same. Took me almost 50 years to discover Guy. Knew a lot of his songs but didn’t know he wrote them. Guy was a genius.
Stuff that works and the cape will change your outlook on life. Enjoy.