Steve Earle latest album ‘Guy’ is a 16-track tribute to country legend Guy Clark.
Earle has recruited an army of his mates including Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff Walker and Mickey Raphael to contribute to the album.
This is the second tribute album from Steve. The first ‘Townes’ was released 10 years ago. “Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark were like Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to me,” Steve said in a statement.
“When it comes to mentors, I’m glad I had both,” says Earle. “If you asked Townes what it’s all about, he’d hand you a copy of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. If you asked Guy the same question, he’d take out a piece of paper and teach you how to diagram a song, what goes where. Townes was one of the all-time great writers, but he only finished three songs during the last fifteen years of his life. Guy had cancer and wrote songs until the day he died…he painted, he built instruments, he owned a guitar shop in the Bay Area where the young Bobby Weir hung out. He was older and wiser. You hung around with him and knew why they call what artists do disciplines. Because he was disciplined.”
He said ‘Guy’ was an easy album for him to make. “GUY wasn’t really a hard record to make,” Earle says. “We did it fast, five or six days with almost no overdubbing. 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.
GUY Track Listing:
1. Dublin Blues
2. L.A. Freeway
3. Texas 1947
4. Desperados Waiting For A Train
5. Rita Ballou
6. The Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint
7. The Randall Knife
8. Anyhow I Love You
9. That Old Time Feeling
10. Heartbroke
11. The Last Gunfighter Ballad
12. Out In The Parking Lot
13. She Ain’t Going Nowhere
14. Sis Draper
15. New Cut Road
16. Old Friends
Steve Earle On Tour:
February 10th – Boston, MA City Winery
February 11th – New York, NY City Winery
February 12th – Washington, DC City Winery
February 13th – Washington, DC City Winery
February 15th – Atlanta, GA City Winery
February 16th – Nashville, TN City Winery
February 17th – Cincinnati, OH Ludlow Garage
February 19th – Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
February 21st – Dallas, TX Kessler Theater
February 22nd – Houston, TX The Heights Theater
February 23rd – Austin, TX The Paramount (Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame)
February 25th – Chicago, IL City Winery
February 26th – Chicago, IL City Winery
February 28th – Albany, NY The Egg
March 1st – Rockport, MA Shalin Liu Performance Center
March 2nd – Ithaca, NY Hangar Theatre
March 11th-17th – Austin, TX SXSW Music Festival
April 27th – New Orleans, LA New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival * with the Dukes
June 29th – Owensboro, KY Romp Festival * with the Dukes
July 18th – Bala, ONT Kee To Bala * with the Dukes
July 19th – Kemptville, Canada Kemptville Live Music Festival * with the Dukes
August 8th – Challis, ID Braun Brothers Reunion
September 3rd – 6th – Big Indian, NY (Steve Earle’s Camp Copperhead)
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