Live from Austin, TX

Guy Clark

Overview

Texas troubadour Guy Glark performs for an appreciate Austin crowd in this release of a 1990 concert originally aired as an installment of the PBS series Austin City Limits. Fans will no double be pleased to note that this release features the entire ninety-minute performance as opposed to the abbreviated, thirty-minute version aired on Austin City Limits, and that additions to the set list include such fan favorites as "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train", "L.A. Freeway".

Product Details

Release Date:	04/17/2007
UPC:	0607396802821
Original Release:	2007
Source:	New West Records
Sound:	[stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:05:00
Sales rank:	54,316

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Guy Clark	Performer,Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Edgar Meyer	Bass
Stuart Duncan	Fiddle

Technical Credits

Jay Woods	Audio Production
Cameron Strang	Audio Production,Producer
Billy Lee Myers, Jr.	Audio Engineer
Gary Briggs	Audio Production,Mixing,Producer
David Hough	Audio Engineer,Engineer
Roger Murrah	Composer
Richard Leigh	Composer
Guy Clark	Composer
Clare Surgeson	Associate Producer
Townes Van Zandt	Composer
Richard Dobson	Composer
Scott Newton	Photography
Katherine Delaney	Package Design
Mary Jurey	Project Coordinator
Jerry Tubb	Mastering
Chet Himes	Mixing
Lee Myers Jr.	Engineer
Terry Lickona	Liner Notes
Susanna Clark	Composer

Editorial Reviews

Guy Clark is a fine singer and a masterful live performer, but he's a songwriter first and foremost, and the best thing about seeing the man on-stage is hearing him wrap his vocal chords around his beautifully crafted stories, which he relates with a sense of depth and detail no one else can quite match. Live from Austin, TX isn't the first or the best live disc from Guy Clark (that honor in both categories goes to 1997's Keepers), but it does capture about an hour of Clark delivering 14 of his songs for an appreciative audience in his home state, with low-key but effective backing from violinist Stuart Duncan and bassist Edgar Meyer, and it documents Clark in great form. On this set, recorded during a taping of the television show Austin City Limits, Clark is a smart enough showman to throw in a few crowd-pleasers, such as his minor hit "Homegrown Tomatoes" and its sibling "Texas Cookin'," but for the most part he doesn't shy away from the deeper and more personal material in his catalog, such as "Randall Knife," "Immigrant Eyes" or "Texas 1947," and here you can hear the common thread between them. Clark's songs are made of the stuff of human lives and whether they aim for laughter or tears, they speak of emotions that most everyone has confronted at one time or another, and in language that is both artful and straightforward. There aren't a lot of artists who can write like Clark, and fewer still who can share their songs with the same simple eloquence; if the opportunity to see him work his magic in person doesn't present itself often enough for you, this disc will serve as a fine reminder until he arrives in your town again, and it's a welcome souvenir for those who do get to hear him in person on a regular basis. ~ Mark Deming