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Guy Clark
Guy Clark was a singer-songwriter from Monahans, Texas. He wrote songs like 'The Guitar' and 'She Ain't Goin' Nowhere' that felt like stories told plainly,...
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Carpenter
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Better Days
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Crystelle
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A Nickel For The Fiddler
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Ain't no trouble to me
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Anyhow I Love You
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Baby Took a Limo To Memphis
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Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint
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Baton Rouge
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Be Gone Forever
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Black Diamond Strings
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Blowin' Like a Bandit
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Boats To Build
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Broken Hearted People
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Coat From The Cold
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Desperados Waiting For The Train
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Guy Clark was a singer-songwriter from Monahans, Texas. He wrote songs like 'The Guitar' and 'She Ain't Goin' Nowhere' that felt like stories told plainly, without much fuss. His first album came out in 1975, and he kept making records for decades, including 'Old No. 1' in 1978 and 'My Favorite Picture of You' in 2009.
He mostly worked alone with his guitar, preferring small venues where the songs could stand on their own. The writing was what mattered, not the production or a big band sound. You can hear that in tracks like 'A Nickel For The Fiddler' and 'All Through Throwin' Good Love After Bad'.
In 2009, he received the National Medal of Arts. The songs hold up because they're specific and unadorned, more like conversations set to music than anthems.
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