Best of Guy Clark

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Best of Guy Clark
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Greatest hits album by Guy Clark
Released 1982
Genre Country
Label RCA
Guy Clark chronology
The South Coast of Texas
(1981)		Best of Guy Clark
(1982)		 Better Days
(1983)
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Best of Guy Clark is an album by American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1982.

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Singer-songwriter musician who writes, composes and sings

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Guy Clark American singer-songwriter

Guy Charles Clark was an American folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer. He released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell. He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture of You.

Contents

Except for four tracks, it includes all of the songs released by Clark on his two albums on RCA. Both Old No. 1 and Texas Cookin' were re-issued on CD on the Camden label in 2001. [2]

<i>Old No. 1</i> 1975 studio album by Guy Clark

Old No. 1 is the highly influential 1975 debut album by Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark.

<i>Texas Cookin</i> album by Guy Clark

Texas Cookin' is the second studio album by Texas Outlaw country singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1976.

RCA Camden was a budget record label of RCA Victor, created by 1953 to reissue recordings from earlier 78-RPM releases.

Track listing

All songs by Guy Clark unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Rita Ballou"
  2. "L.A. Freeway"
  3. "She Ain't Goin' Nowhere"
  4. "That Old Time Feeling"
  5. "Texas, 1947"
  6. "Desperados Waiting for a Train"
  7. "Instant Coffee Blues"
  8. "A Nickel for the Fiddler"
  9. "Texas Cookin' "
  10. "Anyhow, I Love You"
  11. "Virginia's Real"
  12. "Broken Hearted People"
  13. "Black Haired Boy" (Guy Clark, Susanna Clark)
  14. "The Last Gunfighter Ballad "
  15. "Let Him Roll"
  16. "Like a Coat from the Cold"

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Allmusic entry for Old No. 1 and Texas Cookin' re-release.


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