Music was my voice I was introverted and I grew up in Austin Texas during the days of the Armadillo World Headquarters,Soap Creek Saloon, Antone's,One Nite, The music scene at the beginning,and that time can't be better

It's OK. Your not alone, I too have been too stupid to know how good I had it. It's life for some of us! Just go from here, today. It's all we've got!

ditto, xo

Sometimes when you're right in the middle of a Texas twister, it's hard to step back and take it all in. You just catch what you can as it goes flying by, or duck if you're sober enough to remember to do that. Hell, when you start up the aftenoon at Shultz's beer garden just to beat the heat and see what might wander in from all the government offices at quittin' time, and get caught up in a conversation with some beauty from the Governor's office, eat more of those nachos than any sane man would, and have to chase that all down with another ice cold Pearl, or two, which is three or four more than you should have had, realizing you should have left 45 minutes ago if you were gonna get to The Spoke or The Rail and get unloaded and then set up to play, and the last thing you remember was playing your flattop on the Street about 3 or 4 or, well it was still dark and trying to recall if it was 6th or Pecan after arguing with somebody from Georgia about whether Guadalupe is pronounced Gwa day loo pay or Gawd loop and don't have any recollection of getting on 35 or getting off on FR 2001, but you must have because the truck's out in the yard and you're home in Buda but before you can even begin to head back up to the cafe for coffee and food you discover your guitars and amps are cooking in the truck and it's already 1:30 in the afternoon. Thank God days like that only happened a few times...a month,...or was it a week. And dont get me started about the gigs in San Mucus. Yeah life. That shit goes by in a hurry. Might have been easier with cellphones with cameras.

You are so lucky to have such talent pass through Austin over the years. From an Australian

From Australia, never been to Houston. I just Googlemapped that street, now I know where he got Magnolia Wind from. The google van must have gone down there when it was all in flower, how pretty the street, how pretty the song.

Holly Smith Dang !! Lucky you !!!!!!

Can’t even begin to imagine how wonderful it must of been to know and live next door to such an incredible singer songwriter. He’s always been my favorite and I sure miss him not being with us anymore. But his music will live on forever.❤️

To live next door to Guy & Susanna, Emmylou or even John Prine in Chicago.....what a blessing of God. It's for sure Susanna was waitin' on Guy when he showed up to the Heavenly Band practice, I bet his soul was happy again.

How blessed was you guys

+Kevins Best: Subscribe There out there. Hillary supporters mostly.

+swimmer706 Really? How disrespectful to bring politics into a discussion of Guy Clark at this time.

Some folks just have terrible taste in music.

The answer is simple...."Father, forgive them...they know no what they do......" (Jesus Christ)

swimmer706 Politics has nothing to do with this.

Are you a wino?

Why you say "are you a wino?!! Don't have to be a wino to love this man!!! Guy Clark is one of the greatest song writers of all time!!!!!!!! Know what you are talking about when you speak of these legendary poets!!!!! GC.....,JJW.....JP.....JL!!! GUY, JERRY ,PRINE, LENNON.... YES,I HAD TO ADD LENNON!!!!!! "IMAGINE" THAT!!!!!!!

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He's new to me & I'm 66 lol

@@rickallen6378 lol.

He wrote some of my favorite songs and I didn't know it was his song. Jerry Jeff Walker did LA Freeway and Desperados Waiting for a Train and I thought both were his songs, maybe the best he did. I went to college during the heyday of the Austin Country movement. I met a gal who was a Clark fan and she turned me onto much of his collection. The early stuff is still the best.

Steve Goodman

Wet change on a bar....that really mad me laugh. You should try your hand at songwriting. Guy is most certainly the real deal. He's all about telling a story, not selling albums or concert tickets.

RevWillieG I do write.. Just look up "Leaving My Blues At The Border" and let me know what you think! I've been writing for a long time and had a little, but very little, success. Hope you like it....

mouse man Love it! I hope Ryan Bingham keeps it goin'. That man has lived one hell of a life.

but of course we all love Guy, but wait til Luke and Kenny have lived their lives..They will have the country stories

Barb Young Barb, I hate to bust your bubble, but there are no more guys around today like there were when Guy Clark was honing his trade. Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff, Nelson, Jimmy Gilmer and the rest of the Texas writers and performers. It's hard to learn a country life's lesson when you are doing more rap than you are country. These new guys do the "safe" stuff and they will have hit records and make lots of money but they will never be legends in the music business. Maybe in the public's mind, but never in the minds of the people inside the business. They will just be another country singer who made a lot of money and that's about it..

A talented man .

Jerry Sullivan Jerry, I just discovered Guy Clark in the last year or so...... I was around 45 years ago, but maybe got distracted along the way...but I'm here now...

Jerry Sullivan I am just discovering Guy ,too! I am 66 years, now I have time to discover artists--Thank God for the computer and YT!

matt zehentner Glad ya made it !! Enjoy the rest of the ride... :-)

Noel B. Owens hey, 1949 was a good year!! :-) Glad you arrived safely...

+Jerry Sullivan WOW. It took you that long to find out who Guy Clark was?

yep! third coast music started me on his dope back in 1996!

My mother had fed me (since I had only a womb with a view) watermelon dreams, front porch ice cream, home grown tomatoes and all the other great foods, thoughts and songs of Guy Clark and co... I can remember as a child listening to this music with my mother because it was fun/irenic (a little silly... so it seemed as a child)... Yet, being a teenager and all... I whilst with my friends, listened to anything but what my parents had in the "#DodgeSupervan's" tapedeck. I remember in 1997 I was a junior in high school and my family had gone to Taos New Mexico for vacation. While driving into town one evening my mom and dad noticed a marquis at some little"hole in the wall" (The Taos Inn I believe) that must have said something like LIVE tonight... Guy Clark... one night only... YOU DONT WANT TO MISS THIS... YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A CHANCE LIKE THIS AGAIN...Etc. my mother insisted and gently pleaded with me but I opted to stay at the room so that I could sneak a few cigarettes in and have time to get the smell off of my clothes, breath, and fingers (yes, she left no loose ends) before they returned. My mother who never met a stranger and always spoke her mind, stayed out until about 4 in the morning with my father and her new friend... Anywho I think about missing that evening almost every time I hear Guy Clark sing. And absolutely every time that I hear his voice I am reminded of my mom and all that she said that I didn't understand while she was still down here with me/us/you/him/her/them---US. "we're all in this together now even if we all fall apart". So, rest in peace Mom Dad and Guy! I promise to continue to learn/understand from the beautiful legacy that you have left upon this world.

Kitty West

I feel like I lost family.

guy and W 2016

Amen

so natural, a come easy lyrical genius. such a gift to turn something so natural into the lofty supernatural. adios guy, and Suzanna don't you cry. together forever now bye and bye.

A well crafted song by an American legend ! Poet and good Texan !!!!

Aww I like that. Let him roll

Yeah let him roll. What a song!

Bruce I've had the pleasure to "Jam" with Verlon on several occasions. He is one of the kindest and most talented people I've ever known. A very old and gentle soul. Verlon is so "non assuming and humble" that he has no idea of the pleasure of his company. If it hadn't been for Verlon, Guy (and I love Guy) would have had a very incomplete finish to his career. God smiled down on Guy and let him borrow one of his angels for a short time. Thanks to all of them for making my musical life much fuller and complete.

Bruce Dalrymple Yeah that guy is talented as hell

At this point playing with Guy was like playing with John Lee Hooker, timing changed continuously even within one bar.

When you have played for years with the same folks, you don't need a set list. You probably know this.

Yes indeed brother, he is the most Dub of all the great country singers imo. If you could rhyme La Freeway with Red Cow Roundabout you could have a fuckin' great tribute band ;)

I remember those two venues well. Do you remember the Old Quarter?

I do not remember that. Do you remember the Cactus Club and the club in the apartments, the Arlington Square Club?

Are you kidding…..lol. I went to the Cactus Club a lot. We also would go to Arlington Square Apartments to the club there. Do you remember the Orbit Room on Telephone Road or Uncle Sams. W also di the Nesedel Club than Gilleys. Some times we would cruise down to Galveston to hit the bamboo Club or the Ballinese Room. Great Times but i LOVEED the Cactus Club.

and the Texas Opry House - Houston - 1975..

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Then we lost Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker close together. Damn near as bad.

Now you can add Billy Joe Shaver to the list. Kristofferson and Willie are about the only two left.

@@holeemolee8323 and John Prine . RIP

you are correct Sir

The luckiest man on the planet is the man who wakes up next to her in the mornings.

Texas Sam Hinton?

Marion, you forgot that there were a few before Holly came along and a heck of a lot of singer-songwriters that were writing country or (Texas country) at the time Holly was trying to find a "new sound". What about Sonny Curtis, Red Stegall, Sammy Allred, Billy Joe Shaver, Whitey Shafer, and on and on and on?? You must be young and never been to Texas in the 40's and 50's!! Holly could have been Bob Wills' or Tommy Duncan's son!!! Change your strings and Tune up young man. Find you a roadhouse to pick in for a few years and you will learn a lot about Texas music...

Ernest Tubb the Texas Troubadour

+TheJdarnold I liked it for you. I don't usually click like on any KZfaq video