Guy Charles Clark Dies at Age 74.

Guy Charles Clark Dies at Age 74.

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Guy Clark with the original name of Guy Charles Clark adalahmemenangkan Grammy awards Americans in Texas, Guy Clark in addition to the singer, who was born 6 november 1941, is also a songwriter, record producer who has released 20 albums and his songs have been recorded over the NII many singers like Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell. in 2014 and then, a Grammy Award Nomination for Best Album by album My Favorite Picture Of You.

Born: November 6, 1941, Monahans, Texas, United StatesDied: May 17, 2016, Austin, Texas, United States

Some albums Guy Clark.

1975 Old No. 1

1976 Texas Cookin'

1981 The South Coast of Texas

1983 Better Days 48

1988 Old Friends

1992 Boats to Build

1995 Dublin Blues

1999 Cold Dog Sou

2002 The Dark 46

2006 Workbench Songs

2009 Somedays the Song Writes You

2011 Songs and Stories

2013 My Favorite Picture of You

Clark's youth spanned the width of Texas, from Monahans out west, where his grandmother ran a boarding house, to Rockport on the Gulf Coast, where his father had his own law practice.

Clark worked summers at the shipyard in Rockport and didn't pick up a guitar until he was well into his teens. But he said he was always attuned to the stories of people he encountered, even as a kid. Years later they would populate some of his songs.

The characters were "mostly drawn from someone I knew or a lot of times something you'd hear about secondhand," he said. "It all has to ring true."

Clark moved to Houston in the 1960s, working a series of jobs during the day, including a stint as art director for Channels 11 and 13.

At night he found a coffeehouse/folk scene that included players like Van Zandt and Mickey Newbury , who admired local blues greats like Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb.

Clark and Van Zandt became figureheads of sorts, two stylistically different founts of songwriting genius, whose careers would inspire admiration and invite comparison for years.

"He was nine years older than me, and he had such presence," said songwriter Eric Taylor , a friend who Clark mentored. "Guy Charles (his middle name) just took my breath away."

Clark and Van Zandt were a study in contrasts. Van Zandt was electrocuted by the divine fire, to use William Faulkner 's description of James Joyce , whereas Clark learned to harness it. Where Van Zandt looked into the abyss, Clark was more focused on life, particularly the slow passage of time, which he conveyed with masterful ease.

A decade could pass in a Clark song without seeming like a narrative contrivance. Though he hadn't made a record at that point, Clark's songs caught the ear of Jerry Jeff Walker, another singer-songwriter who would soon become one of Clark's earliest champions.

By 1970 Clark ditched Houston for Los Angeles with his wife, Susanna, a painter and songwriter. Dark-eyed, dark-haired and handsome, the pair looked like a couple of actors. Clark hoped to find a song publishing deal, but instead he found a job in a dobro factory in a city that never suited him.

To his credit, Clark came out of Los Angeles with a classic song. "LA Freeway" takes a simple feeling of alienation and infuses it with a sense of conspiratorial grandiosity. "If I could just get off of this LA freeway without getting killed or caught," he sang, "I'd be down that road in a cloud of smoke for some land that I ain't bought."

That land ended up being in Nashville, where Clark finally got a publishing deal. Walker helped establish him as a major songwriting voice when he included two of Clark's songs - "That Old Time Feeling" and "LA Freeway" - on his self-titled 1972 album.

In Nashville, Clark and his wife set up an open-doored home that became an epicenter for songwriters making music that fell to the left of Nashville's comfort zone.

They housed, fed and nurtured young talents, many of them souls like Steve Earle and Crowell who were hungry for food, drink and writing lessons. Read More