Guy Clark
Guy Clark ( born November 6, 1941 in Monahans, Texas) is an American country musician and singer-songwriter.
Life
Clark's early musical influences were Mexican songs he heard in West Texas.
As a songwriter, he was known as Jerry Jeff Walker recorded his songs LA Freeway and Desperados Waiting For a Train. Artists such as Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell also took on songs from Clarks spring. Emmylou Harris accompanied Clark on several recordings to single out is Clark's own version of Desperados Waiting For a Train on his first album Old No. 1 of 1975.
Clark is known for his "story songs", in which he tells how a modern troubadour stories that he or others experienced. As one of his main influences he called Townes Van Zandt. With the musicians he had a year long friendship. After Van Zandt's death in 1997, Clark has taken on almost every album a song of his friend. In 1995 he recorded a live album with Van Zandt and Steve Earle Together at the Bluebird Cafe, which was released in October 2001. Another live album of Clark 's Keepers.
Musicians such as Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell helping Clark as a mentor. He Earle procured his first job as a songwriter in Nashville. In the 1970s, the home of Clark and his wife Susanna was open to musicians and songwriters in Nashville, which is documented in the film Heart Worn Highway. Susanna Clark, who himself wrote songs and created as a graphic artist albums by Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris, died on June 27, 2012 at the age of 73 years.
Guy Clark was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004. He was also nominated several times for a Grammy Award. For his album My Favourite Picture of You, he received the award for Best Folk Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards 2014.
In addition to his career as a musician Clark works as a luthier.
Discography
- Old No.. 1 RCA ( 1975)
- Texas Cookin ' RCA ( 1976)
- Guy Clark Warner (1978 )
- On the Road Live Warner (1979 ) Promo
- The South Coast of Texas Warner (1981 )
- Better Days Warner (1983 )
- Guy Clark - Greatest Hits RCA ( 1983)
- Old Friends Sugar Hill ( 1988)
- Boats to Build Asylum ( 1992)
- Dublin Blues Asylum ( 1995)
- Keepers Sugar Hill (1997 ) Live
- Cold Dog Soup Sugar Hill ( 1999)
- The Dark Sugar Hill ( 2002)
- Workbench Songs Dualtone (2006)
- Live from Austin, TX New West Records (2007 ) Live
- Somedays the Song Writes You Dualtone (2009)
- Songs and Stories Dualtone (2011)
- My Favourite Picture of You Dualtone (2013 )
Filmography
- Heartworn Highways - Documentary, Snapper / Catfish, 1981/2003, with Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe and Steve Earle