{"id":12168,"date":"2016-05-17T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=12168"},"modified":"2016-05-17T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T17:57:08","slug":"guy-clark-another-good-man-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/05\/guy-clark-another-good-man-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Clark: Another good man gone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guy Clark<\/p><\/div>\n

First Merle, then Prince and now comes the news that Guy Clark<\/a> is gone, too.<\/p>\n

Clark was a songwriter’s songwriter, one of those funny, literate, hardboiled, authentic masters who\u00a0showed the way to so many others. It didn’t hurt that he was a good guitar player with an affecting, whiskey-soaked voice.<\/p>\n

I didn’t start listening to Clark until about 15 years ago, and I came at him backward, through listening to Steve Earle and then turning to Clark, who was a mentor to Earle.\u00a0Clark played at the Texas-heavy 2011 edition of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival<\/a> in White Sulphur Springs. I can’t remember where I was, but I know I couldn’t make the festival that year. I now regret that even more.<\/p>\n

Here’s a good article on Clark<\/a> from Texas Monthly, though the headline, “He Ain’t Going Nowhere,” doesn’t quite fit anymore. And here’s a quote from the article: “Bob Dylan lists Guy among his handful of favorite songwriters, and most of Nashville does too.”<\/p>\n

On top of all that, Clark was just one hell of a character. Here’s a clip from “Be There to Love Me,” a documentary about Townes Van Zandt, another Texas troubadour. It consists of three clips of Clark talking about Van Zandt. Make sure you watch the last one. It’s priceless.<\/p>\n