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:

Dublin Blues
L.A. Freeway
Texas 1947
Desperados Waiting For A Train
Rita Ballou
The Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint
The Randall Knife
Anyhow I Love You
That Old Time Feeling
Heartbroke
The Last Gunfighter Ballad
Out In The Parking Lot
She Aint Going Nowhere
Sis Draper
New Cut Road
Old Friends

UPC: 607396645527
Label: New West Records
Release Date: 3.29.19
Format: CD

Steve Earle & The Dukes - Guy (CD)