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Like most "tribute" type albums, this will probably be more greatly appreciated by fans of the musician playing the songs than by fans of the original artist, but I'll be honest: I was never particularly a massive fan of Guy Clarke (though I like his better known hits like those on Heartworn Highways and Together at the Bluebird Cafe). However, I do love almost everything Steve Earle does, including this, so it was kind of a "must buy" just for that reason.
Favorite track: The Randall Knife.
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A few weeks after Guy Charles Clark left this world, his many compadres and acolytes gathered in Jim McGuire’s photography studio in Nashville to cry a little, laugh a lot, and swap stories and songs.
Our host was one of Guy’s closest friends and his photographer of choice whenever he was forced to endure a photo shoot. Before the rest of us arrived, Senor McGuire had pulled some prints and laid them out on his pool table. Arranged out at odd angles, artfully overlapping, the images formed a photo collage chronicling the life and career of a master storyteller. My eyes naturally gravitated towards the older photos that captured moments I was, literally, marginally a part of, In fact, I could almost see my 20 yr old self slouching just out of the frame.
Then it struck me, like a bolt of Texas hill country lightning, how young he was; his face unlined except at the corners of his eyes, hair dark brown, dangerously near to black, his features as finely chiseled as the guitars he fashioned on his work bench or the songs that he etched onto lined yellow paper and deep into the heart of Texas with a no 2 pencil and by his own admission, a big eraser..
Guy was only 33 when we met but he had always seemed to me, from that day until the last time I saw him alive, above and beyond any such worldly contrivance as time. I could go a year without seeing him and find him utterly un-changed. I fantasized once that, maybe, Guy was like Merlin in the Arthurian legends; born backwards in time, ancient and venerable and growing younger and younger at such a glacial pace that he would one day become the 8 year boy learning how to drive old Jack Prigg’s car down a dusty West Texas road but by that time, all of us would be long ago dead and gone.
But I was wrong. And now he’s gone and when I follow him (because I always have) I’ll leave this world with only one regret and that is that I never wrote a song with Guy Clark.
Steve Earle
New York City
Nov 2018
credits
released March 29, 2019
Steve Earle - guitar, mandolin, vocals
The Dukes
Chris Masterson - guitar, vocals
Eleanor Whitmore - fiddle, mandolin, tenor guitar, vocals
Ricky Ray Jackson - pedal steel guitar, vocals
Kelley Looney - bass
Brad Pemberton - drums, percussion
With
Shawn Camp - acoustic guitar on “New Cut Road” and “Sis Draper,” mandolin and vocals on “Old Friends”
Verlon Thompson - acoustic guitar and vocals on “Old Friends”
Mickey Raphael - harmonica on “Old Friends”
Jim McGuire - dobro on “Old Friends”
Gary Nicholson - acoustic guitar and vocals on “Old Friends”
Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Jo Harvey Allen - vocals on “Old Friends”
Dukes Crew: Todd Burman, Brian Denny, Kevin Varnado, Tyler Porch, and Reggie Winston
Management: Danny Goldberg and Jesse Bauer, Gold Village Entertainment
Business Management: Butch Gage and Dan Goscombe at Cal Financial Group
A&R: Kim Buie
European Booking: Paul Fenn for ASGARD LTD
North America Booking: Lance Roberts for UTA
Legal: Rosemary Carroll for Carroll, Guido and Groffman
North America Publicity: Brady Brock
UK Radio & TV: Richard Wootton for Richard Wootton Publicity
UK Publicity: Claire Horton for Claire Horton PR
Cover Art: Tony Fitzpatrick
Back Cover Art: Terry Allen
Emmylou Harris appears courtesy of Nonesuch Records.
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SPECIAL THANKS
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VERY SPECIAL THANKS
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1. Dublin Blues
(Guy Clark) EMI April Music Inc. / GSC Music (ASCAP)
2. L.A. Freeway
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
3. Texas 1947
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
4. Desperados Waiting For A Train
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
5. Rita Ballou
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
6. The Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
7. The Randall Knife
(Guy Clark) EMI April Music Inc. / GSC Music (ASCAP)
8. Anyhow I Love You
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
9. That Old Time Feeling
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. / Royal Oak Music (ASCAP)
10. Heartbroke
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
11. The Last Gunfighter Ballad
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
12. Out In The Parking Lot
(Guy Clark / James Scott) EMI April Music Inc. / GSC Music / Chuck Wagon Gourmet Music / Sony ATV Harmony (ASCAP)
13. She Ain't Going Nowhere
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
14. Sis Draper
(Guy Clark / Shawn Camp) EMI April Music Inc. (ASCAP) / International Dog Music (BMI) / Travelin Arkansawyer Music (BMI)
15. New Cut Road
(Guy Clark) World Song Publishing Inc. (ASCAP)
16. Old Friends
(Guy Clark / Susanna Clark / Richard Dobson) EMI April Music Inc (ASCAP) / Salty Songs (BMI)
Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation, a worthy heir to Townes Van Zandt and Guy
Clark, his two musical mentors. Earle has distinguished himself as a master storyteller, and his songs have been recorded by a vast array of artists, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, the Pretenders, and more....more
1st time i heard DeathWish, i turned it off.
felt rushed, not the Isbell i've come to admire. really grab'd me when i took time to listen on the 2nd try. the writing on these songs stopped me in my tracks more than once. raw talent with just enough polish in the delivery.
thankyou Jason + 400 for another keeper swirlingmadness
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