Craftsman (album)

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Craftsman
Craftsmanguyclark.jpg
Compilation album by
Released1995
Genre Country
Length99:09
Label Rounder/Philo
Guy Clark chronology
Dublin Blues
(1995)
Craftsman
(1995)
Keepers
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Craftsman is an album by American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1995. It is a 30-song double-CD collection that includes all of Clark's late-1970s and 1980s recordings for Warner Bros. Guy Clark, The South Coast of Texas, and Better Days . The album was reviewed as being a collection of "some of Clark's finest work", containing "tales of drifters, smuggles, old-fiddle players, wild-eyed girls in cowboy bars, life on the south coast of Texas, waitresses in cheap hotels, the joys of homegrown tomatoes, carpenters and lots of finely crafted, highly original love songs". [2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Guy Clark unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Fool on the Roof" – 4:09
  2. "Fools for Each Other" – 4:15
  3. "Shade of All Greens" – 3:13
  4. "Voilà, An American Dream" – 3:46
  5. "One Paper Kid" (Walter Cowart) – 3:24
  6. "In the Jailhouse Now" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:47
  7. "Comfort and Crazy" – 3:06
  8. "Don't You Take It Too Bad" (Townes Van Zandt) – 4:02
  9. "The Houston Kid" – 3:59
  10. "Fool on the Roof" – 2:33
  11. "Who Do You Think You Are" – 3:24
  12. "Crystelle" – 3:02
  13. "New Cut Road" – 3:42
  14. "Rita Ballou " – 3:10
  15. "South Coast of Texas" – 3:45
  16. "Heartbroke" – 3:00
  17. "The Partner Nobody Chose" (Clark, Crowell) – 3:06
  18. "She's Crazy for Leavin'" (Clark, Crowell) – 2:52
  19. "Calf-Rope" – 2:33
  20. "Lone Star Hotel" – 3:20
  21. "Blowin' Like a Bandit" – 2:37
  22. "Better Days" – 3:00
  23. "Homegrown Tomatoes" – 2:56
  24. "Supply and Demand" – 3:12
  25. "Randall Knife" [1983 version] – 4:08
  26. "The Carpenter" – 3:11
  27. "Uncertain Texas" (Crowell, Dobson) – 2:25
  28. "No Deal" (Van Zandt) – 3:16
  29. "Tears" – 2:46
  30. "Fool in the Mirror" – 3:30

Personnel

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References

  1. Jurek, Thom. Craftsman at AllMusic
  2. "Guy Clark: Craftsman", The Sydney Morning Herald (June 5, 1995), p. 13s.