Earle,Steve & The Dukes Guy CD

Steve Earle was nineteen and had just hitchhiked from San Antonio to Nashville in 1974. Back then if you wanted to be where the best songwriters were you had to be in there. Guy Clark had moved to Nashville and if you were from Texas, Guy Clark was king. Flash forward more than forty years. In the fall of 2018, Steve and The Dukes went into House Of Blues studio in Nashville and recorded GUY in six days. '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.' Earle and his current, perhaps best-ever Dukes lineup, take on these songs with a spirit of reverent glee and invention. But in the end Guy leads the listener back to it's beginning, namely Guy Clark, which is what any good 'tribute' should do. Guy is a saga of friendship, it's ups and downs, what endures. We are lucky that Earle remembers and honors these things, because like old friends, Guy is a diamond.

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 Aint Going Nowhere 14. Sis Draper 15. New Cut Road 16. Old Friends