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Guy Clark
As Nashville became an ever more slick and commercial industry in the 1970s, Guy
Clark was part of a gang of Texan singer songwriters regarded as too wild and
ragged for country music's glitzy new image. Raised by his grandmother in a
hotel she ran in the small town of Monahans in the west of the state, Clark was
inspired by blues singers Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb and started
writing and performing in Houston, where he struck up a deep, long-lasting
friendship with fellow country folk troubadour Townes Van Zandt. He came to
recognition when Jerry Jeff Walker recorded h...
