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Hall of Fame Songwriter Releases Live Album August 16 Two Months Before 70th BirthdayJust months prior to his 70th birthday, Guy Clark remains a national treasure and folk icon -- using everyday language to construct masterful and extraordinary songs for more than 35 years. A member of Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and a recipient of The Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, Clark is releasing Songs And Stories August 16 on Dualtone Music Group.
Recorded live in Nashville, not only are there the beloved songs, “The Randall Knife,” “The Cape,” “Homegrown Tomatoes,” and “Stuff That Works,” but also the essential asides and insights that can only be experienced from a seat in the audience. The album is available today only for $3.99 on Amazon.com.
Songs And Stories was recorded at the Belcourt Theatre, Clark warmly surrounded by his current musical family -- his longtime sidekick and co-writer Verlon Thompson, along with Shawn Camp, Bryn Davies and Kenny Malone. It feels like a peek into the famed 3am guitar pulls at the Driskill Hotel, or the egalitarianism of Clark's dining room table where troupes of greats including Steve Earle, Shaver, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Kristofferson and more, gathered for show-and-tell song swapping sessions.
He kicks off the album with “L.A. Freeway,” a hit for Jerry Jeff Walker in the early 70s, that was been said by many to have set the tone for a musical revolution that, like the Bakersfield sound of the 1960s, the was a reaction to the formulaic rigidity and paternalism of Nashville's record producers and label executives. At the tail end of the song he pauses to share a memory from that time decades ago, about a landlord and a grapefruit tree that might have added to the final push to say, “Adios to all this concrete. Gonna get me some dirt road back street.”
Before beginning the song “If I Needed You,” written by his longtime friend Townes Van Zandt, Clark shares the story about the surprising ease Townes had writing the popular song when living with Clark and his wife in Texas in 1972. “Townes came in for coffee one morning, picked up his guitar and laid this piece of paper on his leg and sang this song…and I said ‘where did that come from?’ and he said ‘I wrote it last night in my sleep, I just rolled over and wrote it down and turned over and went back to sleep.’” Clark laughs, adding, “Suspicion confirmed.”
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum named Guy Clark as its prestigious Artist-In-Residence in 2006, and Clark released Workbench Songs the following year to universal critical acclaim, and was nominated for the 2007 Grammy award as Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album -- as was his most recent studio albumSomedays The Song Writes You.
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