Steve Earle & The Dukes – GUY (CD)
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Steve Earle learned to write songs by sitting at Guy Clark's kitchen table, absorbing a master class in craft, economy, and the Texas storytelling tradition that Clark helped define. Clark died in May 2016, and the loss left a real hole in Nashville's soul; this is Earle settling that long debt in the most direct way he knows how.
Steve Earle was nineteen and had just hitchhiked from San Antonio to Nashville in 1974. Back then if you wanted to be where the best songwriters were you had to be in there. Guy Clark had moved to Nashville and if you were from Texas, Guy Clark was king.
Flash forward more than forty years. In the fall of 2018, Steve and The Dukes went into House Of Blues studio in Nashville and recorded GUY in six days. 'I wanted it to sound live...When you've got a catalog like Guy's and you're only doing sixteen tracks, you know each one is going to be strong.'
Earle and his current, perhaps best-ever Dukes lineup, take on these songs with a spirit of reverent glee and invention. But in the end GUY leads the listener back to its beginning, namely Guy Clark, which is what any good 'tribute' should do. GUY is a saga of friendship, its ups and downs, what endures. We are lucky that Earle remembers and honors these things, because like old friends, GUY is a diamond.
Tracklist
UPC: 607396645527
Label: New West Records
Release Date: 3.29.19
Format: CD