RIP Guy Clark

[EStreetJoe]

Country music's Texas-born troubadour has passed.
A legendary singer-songwriter who will be missed.
Guy Clark dead at 74

 

[Big Circus]

 

[micropolitan guy]

Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin
And watched em all go to Texas in a covered wagon
He pulled out his fiddle and rosined up his bow
And played a little tune called the New Cut Road

One of my favorites.

 

[YankeeFan]

Great song writer. He'd been sick for a while.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

A very great loss for country music. I knew he'd been ill.

 

[YankeeFan]

Lyle always plays this one on his acoustic shows.

Nice tribute to Guy in the intro:

 

[YankeeFan]

Love this one:

 

[Neutral Corner]

**** you, 2016.

 

[YankeeFan]

**** you, 2016.

How great is music?

I found something to like about Neutral Corner!

The shows he did with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and (E Street Joe favorite) Joe Ely were always fabulous, and a lot of fun.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I love that whole bunch of Texas singer-songwriters. I've seen Ely dozens of times around Houston. The Flatlanders (Joe Ely, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock). Lovett, for certain. Jerry Jeff. Robert Earl Keen. Willie, of course. Billy Joe Shaver. Townes Van Zandt. Stevie Ray. Hell, Buddy Holly.

I got onto Ely when "Musta Notta Gotta Lotta" came out. I walked into a record shop that I liked, and the guy behind the counter said "You'll buy this record" and dropped the needle.

He was right.

 

[Big Circus]

I love that whole bunch of Texas singer-songwriters. I've seen Ely dozens of times around Houston. The Flatlanders (Joe Ely, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock). Lovett, for certain. Jerry Jeff. Robert Earl Keen. Willie, of course. Billy Joe Shaver. Townes Van Zandt. Stevie Ray. Hell, Buddy Holly.

I got onto Ely when "Musta Notta Gotta Lotta" came out. I walked into a record shop that I liked, and the guy behind the counter said "You'll buy this record" and dropped the needle.

He was right.

You need to check out Willis Alan Ramsey. Only one album, but it was a doozy.

 

[Huggy]

Love this song....and Joe Ely is a guy I have got to see one of these days....

 

[swingline]

Eat that Texas cookin' in the afterlife, Guy. Keep your belly and backbone from bumpin'.

 

[Neutral Corner]

You need to check out Willis Alan Ramsey. Only one album, but it was a doozy.

Will do. Thanks!

 

[Football_Bat]

These Texas guys are a pretty tight brotherhood. I know they write songs for each other and cover each other's stuff. Jerry Jeff did a version of "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting For a Train," but I don't know which wrote which.

 

[YankeeFan]

 

[EStreetJoe]

I love that whole bunch of Texas singer-songwriters. I've seen Ely dozens of times around Houston. The Flatlanders (Joe Ely, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock). Lovett, for certain. Jerry Jeff. Robert Earl Keen. Willie, of course. Billy Joe Shaver. Townes Van Zandt. Stevie Ray. Hell, Buddy Holly.

I got onto Ely when "Musta Notta Gotta Lotta" came out. I walked into a record shop that I liked, and the guy behind the counter said "You'll buy this record" and dropped the needle.

He was right.

How can you mention all those great Texas songwriters and not mention Ray Wylie Hubbard?
Love Joe Ely - got into him in '93 when he joined Springsteen at back-to-back shows and played "Settle for Love". Bought the Love & Danger album a week or two later and never looked back. Got my dad into him with the next album (Letter to Laredo). I've seen Ely 2 or 3 times, but its been at least 10 years or more since I last caught him in concert.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I caught him in Birmingham a few years back at City Stages, a now defunct downtown street festival. He was doing a regular set on Friday night, but the festival opened at lunch on Friday with a couple of acts doing acoustic sets. One of them was Joe, unplugged, and I sat on the steps maybe fifteen feet in front of him. Great show. Funny memory... he had a guitarist who played with him who was all duded up in the Spanish Flamenco suit like Stevie Ray Vaughn used to wear, and I made a snide comment about his copycat wardrobe to my wife. Then Joe introduces him as "Taya, this fabulous flamenco guitarist from Seville". The wife just gave me the look, you know the one...

Ely was dynamite back in the '80s when Jesse Taylor was still in the band, with Flaco Jimenez. That's probably my favorite band of his, they really laid down the roadhouse Texas music, but it's all good, man.

Somehow I never got started on Ray Wylie, dunno why. So now I get to start on him and track down the Willis Allen Ramsey. Hope it's on Rhapsody or Spotify.

What I wouldn't do for a chicken fried steak and cream gravy along about now. Sigh.

 

[Neutral Corner]

"Hard Livin'" off of Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, solo. Good stuff.



"There ain't no cure for the honky tonk blues, and if they come up with something, I'll have built up an immunity".

 

[Dick Whitman]

These Texas guys are a pretty tight brotherhood. I know they write songs for each other and cover each other's stuff. Jerry Jeff did a version of "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting For a Train," but I don't know which wrote which.

Jerry Jeff wrote it.