Old Friends (Guy Clark album)

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Old Friends
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Studio album by
Released1988
Recorded Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length28:12
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Miles Wilkinson
Guy Clark chronology
Guy Clark – Greatest Hits
(1983)
Old Friends
(1988)
Boats to Build
(1992)

Old Friends is an album by the American musician Guy Clark, released in 1988 on Sugar Hill Records. [1] [2] Clark wrote or cowrote seven of the album's ten songs. [3] Rosanne Cash and Emmylou Harris were among the backing vocalists. [4] The album was recorded in Nashville, using an 8-track. [5]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Sun-Sentinel wrote that "Clark's half-sung/half-spoken delivery, gentle finger-picking and the songs that are the stars." [7] The Washington Post noted that "when he stops being portentous and settles for warm, Clark's still a fine songcrafter." [8]

Track listing

  1. "Old Friends" (Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Richard Dobson) – 3:12
  2. "Hands" (Clark, Joe Henry, Verlon Thompson) – 2:22
  3. "All Through Throwin' Good Love After Bad" (Clark, Richard Leigh) – 2:46
  4. "Immigrant Eyes" (Clark, Jim Murragh) – 3:37
  5. "Heavy Metal" (Clark, Jim McBride) – 3:02
  6. "Come From the Heart" (Susanna Clark, Richard Leigh) – 3:18
  7. "The Indian Cowboy" (Joe Ely) – 2:21
  8. "To Live Is to Fly" (Townes Van Zandt) – 3:15
  9. "Watermelon Dream" (Clark) – 3:23
  10. "Doctor Good Doctor" (Clark) – 2:33

Personnel

Production notes

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  4. Beyer, Susan (April 28, 1989). "Laid-back Clark has a winner". Ottawa Citizen. p. D6.
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  7. "County Homey Feeling of Guy Clark". Sun-Sentinel. January 8, 1989. p. 3F.
  8. Zibart, Eve (January 13, 1989). "Texas Troubadors Still Hookin' 'Em". The Washington Post. p. N21.