I first came across Guy Clark courtesy of Robert Forster, who sang – on his Danger in the Past album – about “Wondering who sounds better in the dark / Is it Townes van Zandt or Guy Clark?” All told, I’m inclined to believe it’s the former, but it would be a close-run thing … Anyway, the sad news is that Guy Clark died today, aged 74. My favourite track of his is Desperadoes Waiting for a Train:
I played the Red River Valley
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin’
And wonder, “Lord, why has every well I’ve drilled gone dry?”
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