He earned his rep and royalties penning classics like "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting for a Train." Freeway”. Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter and luthier. There exists no one-stop collection spanning Clark’s 40-year career, but The Best of the Dualtone Years provides a useful account of his final period, collecting songs from the four albums (three studio, one live) he recorded for that label during the last decade of his life. It’s a rare Guy Clark song that doesn’t contain at least one killer line that can stop listeners in their tracks with a shock of recognition or just plain awe and this collection is full of such examples. Those lucky enough to be warped by these 15 classic horror films, now available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection and Kino Lorber, never got over them. Joe Wong, the composer behind Netflix's Russian Doll and Master of None, articulates personal grief and grappling with artistic fulfillment into a sweeping debut album. Most of the time, he's alone with his guitar and a haunting mellotron. Given the turmoil of the era, you might expect Lydia Loveless to lean into the anger, amplifying the electric guitar side of her cowpunk. Best of the Sugar Hill Years captures Clark between the mid-'90s and the early 2000s, comfortable in his craft and joined by a number of fine pickers including multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott. Instead, she created a personal record with a full range of moods, still full of her typical wit. / I’ll take all you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.". Like so many of his fellow songwriters, however, Clark's quiet observational style never quite jibed with major-label status, eventually leading him to join Sugar Hill's roster. Complete your Guy Clark collection. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Guy Clark - The Best Of The Dualtone Years at Discogs. / How much is a sack of it? From creating the title role in The Wiz to winning an Emmy for Ain't Misbehavin', André De Shields reflects on his roles in more than four decades of iconic musicals, including the GRAMMY and Tony Award-winning Hadestown. Patrick Cowley's Some Funkettes sports instrumental renditions from between 1975-1977 of songs previously made popular by Donna Summer, Herbie Hancock, the Temptations, and others. “Just to Watch Maria Dance” and “Time” are classic Clark, his cracking voice and spare solo guitar work resonate quiet confidence here. Sofia Coppola's domestic malaise comedy On the Rocks doesn't drown in its sorrows -- it simply pours another round, to which we raise our glass. Canadian singer-songwriter Helena Deland's first full-length release Someone New reveals her considerable creative talents. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Guy Clark - The Best Of Guy Clark at Discogs. We hope the beta will be up sometime late next week. As a country artist, Clark’s is not a household name, his plain-spoken, road-weary Romanticism lacking the flashiness (and vapidity) required by the Nashville music machine. The tracks from Songs and Stories find the mature Clark to revisiting some among his earlier classics, like “Randall Knife” and “L.A. Then there’s “You never left, but your bags were packed just in case” (“My Favorite Picture of You”) or “Only two things that money can’t buy / And that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes” (“Homegrown Tomatoes”). He never scored a top-ten record himself, though others took his songs to higher chart positions. Guy Clark – Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark. Here then, are a dozen of Guy Clark’s best, immortal songs that reflect that wise and worldly view. Track listing All songs written by Guy Clark except where noted. Where Van Zandt was the self-destructive genius, Waylon Jennings was the hard-living sage, and Kris Kristofferson was the free spirited sex symbol, Clark’s role in the scene was, simply, as the dutiful troubadour, in it for the sake of the song. Aussie indie rockers, Floodlights' debut From a View is a very cleanly, crisply-produced and mixed collection of shambolic, do-it-yourself indie guitar music. © 1999-2020 PopMatters.com. One somewhat odd aspect to this collection is that it was pulled from only three albums, Keepers (1997), Cold Dog Soup (1999), and The Dark (2002), and the first of these is live. PopMatters have been informed by our current technology and hosting provider that we have less than a month, until November 6, to move PopMatters off their service or we will be shut down. But I’d recommend keeping that six inches of space on the CD shelf open; once introduced to this master songwriter, you’re probably going to want to fill it.