Guy Clark News

Most mornings, Rocks Off wakes up to Elizabeth Cook's country-as-cornbread drawl on her Outlaw Country satellite-radio program, "Apron Strings" . On her 2007 LP Balls - produced by the Houston Kid himself, Rodney Crowell - Cook was as frank and charming on songs like "Times Are Tough In Rock and Roll" and "Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be a Woman." ...

Haslett's Sam Corbin issued his debut CD, 'Goodnight Candlelight,' in 2006, an introspective, darkly folky album of original songs - but his latest, this fall's 'Michigan Waltz,' is evidence that he's come out of the basement and gotten around some since then.

It's hard to believe A Friend of a Friend is David Rawlings' first album under his own name.

"Got to find me another" opponent, Thompson says. "I've worn this one out." "I was worn out already," responds Charles Thomas, laughing softly.

Actress Sally Field is 63. Director Mike Nichols is 78. Country singer Stonewall Jackson is 77.

Tom Russell One of singer-songwriter Tom Russell's distinctions has been his creation of character-study cameos that populate many of his songs.

A A By GREG HAYMES A A Special to the Times Union A A ALBANY - Texas troubadour Guy Clark is an absolute master.

Recording artist Lyle Lovett can talk for hours about the musicians he respects and attempts to emulate; men like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark.

Lucinda Williams, seen here performing at the 2003 Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn., is headed to Cleveland for an American Music Masters salute to Janis Joplin.

Mobile native Tyler Reeve didn't seriously start playing music until he'd left home for college.

Robert Earl Keen practices two very different kinds of Texas music. On one hand, he has a gift for the kind of understated, skeptical, literary songwriting pursued by his mentors Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, and friend and neighbor Lyle Lovett.

Editor's note: With Chet Flippo out of town on a news assignment, we're revisiting one of his most popular columns -- the one featuring the recipe for Chet's Tennessee Velvet Chili.

Legendary Nashville photographer Jim McGuire remembers falling in love with music, and country in particular, after hearing Hank Snow's distinctive "Spanish Fireball" as a 12-year-old. Though he later played in a high school band and even served as a concert and album reviewer for The Village Voice in the late '60s and early '70s, it was McGuire's ...

In case you haven't heard, Kenny Chesney has joined fellow country superstars Brooks & Dunn in calling it quits.

Guy Clark 's spooky new song, "The Guitar," freaks me out. When he played it last night at a sold-out record release show for Somedays the Song Writes You , you could hear the audience gasp at the story's revelation, which I won't spoil here.

For many Nashville songwriters, hearing a great Guy Clark song is alternately inspirational and infuriating.

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There's a wistful, yet lighthearted self-awareness to Charlie Robison's "Middle of the Night" that echoes the tone of Texas country artists like Terry Allen and Guy Clark.

John Fogerty will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at the Americana Music Association's 8th Annual Honors and Awards ceremony, slated for Thursday, September 17 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Jerry Jeff Walker is strongly associated with the progressive country scene that centered around Austin, Texas, in the 1970s and included such figures as Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, the Lost Gonzo Band, Waylon Jennings,and Townes Van Zandt.