Guy Clark
Guy Clark
Guy Charles Clarkwas an American Texas country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer. He released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell. He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture of You...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth6 November 1941
CityMonahans, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.
We're gonna play you some songs we know and some we don't. But we're pretty good at it. We have no set list, no agenda and no fear.
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.
Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.
All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
If there is a moratorium, I think there will be tremendous pressure from both sides to get something done,
In a town where there are some pretty good writers, he really is our poet laureate.
I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.