This year's annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured a track dedicated to Lone Star heritage. "Texas: A Celebration of Music, Food, and Wine" proved invigorating for Roger Wood, the Houston-based professor and co-author of Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues.Wood recaps a string of wonderul cross-cultural concerts in yesterday's Houston Chronicle, adding that even after the finale he wasn't ...
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As Guy Clark sang: Well the sky was blacker than a funeral suit; hotter than a depot stove…Well it ain’t Texas, but there be tornadoes here. A group of massive storms hit my area of Maryland yesterday as I was about to set off for work, which included a tornado that ripped off the roof of a nearby restaurant which is about a ½ mile from my restaurant. Luckily we had no damage. So it’s funny
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The songwriter's craft of juxtaposing words to describe a person, scene or situation or to communicate a feeling is only the surface of a process that starts deep within. The ability to step outside one's own moment to describe what's happening or happened, to [...]Original Story
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As John T. Davis wrote yesterday, the collected works of Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt, and Lyle Lovett come about as close to a modern American songbook as any other combination of songwriters. Last night, the four long-time friends closed out a brief stand at the Paramount Theatre with a two-and-a-half-hour performance that was part songswap, part standup, and wholly certain to remain a life...
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Guy ClarkSomedays the Song Writes You(Dualtone)Releasing: 22 September (US)Guy Clark has long been one of those artists greatly beloved by other respected artists. Bob Dylan recently told the...
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Guy Clark is a name I feel like I should know better than I do, and looking at what he’s done, only reinforces that feeling. He has written for Johnny Cash and Bobby Bare, among others, has a dozen studio albums to his credit that include great songs like “Desperadoes Waiting for a Train” and [...]
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"Broken Hearted People" has been one of those songs from which particular lines seem to come to mind all the time in my own life. In the last few years this has been more true for me than eever before for reasons much as the album description here describes. I believe the reason this has been true for me is because so much Guy Clark's music, be it happy or sad, upbeat or melancholy, is haunti...
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I was asked to pull down the Guy Clark post because Dual Tone is actually planning to release a proper pro mixed version of that show at some point. Can't wait for that to come out, and hopefully it will have a DVD with it!The other day I mentioned that Scott Miller was going to be releasing a new song on his site to help fund his new album (similar to what he did with Appalachian Refugee Demo...
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51 songs featuring Greg Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Lonnie Johnson, Golden Smog...
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