This was the year that all discussion of Guy Clark, standard-bearer of narrative-unfurling Texas songwriting, slipped from present tense into past. After his death in May came innumerable published ...

When Guy Clark was writing his “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” he was sharing the story about the man he considered his grandfather, Jack Prigg. The boyfriend of Clark’s paternal grandmother, Rossie ...

Clark, who died this week, moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, and couldn’t wait to get out — that’s where he wrote "L.A. Freeway." This week’s song of the week is “L.A. Freeway” by Guy Clark, ...

To celebrate his 70th birthday, a group of Guy Clark’s friends and admirers came together to pay tribute to the master songwriter on the double album This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark. They ...

Ten years ago, Steve Earle took a break from recording original material to make Townes, a tribute to his longtime friend and colleague Townes Van Zandt. To Earle, Van Zandt was his Bob Dylan — or his ...

With the deaths of such prominent artists as Prince and Leonard Cohen making headlines in 2016, you may have missed the fact that we also lost the great Guy Clark, who passed away in May. He crafted ...

Shortly before Guy Clark released his last album, My Favorite Picture of You, in July 2013, the magazine asked me to write a short music column about him. The prospect wasn’t thrilling. The record was ...

Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, two of the godfathers of the Texas singer-songwriter tradition, continue to influence a younger generation of tunesmiths. And while Van Zandt has the cult status that ...

Townes Van Zandt, Susanna Clark and Guy Clark are at the center of the love triangle depicted in the movie "Without Getting Killed or Caught." For Tamara Saviano, a gifted author and filmmaker, ...