Guy Clark - Workbench Songs
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Artist: Guy ClarkEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Dualtone Music Group
Soundtracks:
- Walking Man
- Magdalene
- Tornado Time in Texas
- Funny Bone
- Expos?
- Out in the Parkin' Lot
- No Lonesome Tune
- Cinco de Mayo in Memphis
- Analog Girl
- Worry B Gone
- Diamond Joe - Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson
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I saw Mr. Clark on a PBS special and loved the songs he performed. This cd was my first purchase of his work and I was blown away. It's still on my cd player. The songs are crafted as works of art. Lyrics that will blow you and way and Mr. Clarks singing is unique and beautiful. It sounds like he's lived the songs he's wrote. I took a chance on this and was rewarded with a new, exciting discovery.
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The title of this album would seem a tad precious applied to the releases of the majority of Nashville musicians. But Guy Clark--song craftsman, guitar builder--has been doing such finely measured work for all of his storied career that "Workbench Songs" aptly sums up the pride and precision he brings to these 11 offerings. Joined by cowriters Darrell Scott, Rodney Crowell, Gary Nicholson, Lee Roy Parnell, and Verlon Thompson, Clark is at turns wry and poignant in chronicling human acts great and small. And, as usual with his albums, a number of these songs resonate long after first listen. "Walkin' Man," a Celtic-flavored demo recording which kicks off the set, pays homage to the pilgrims and searchers--Gandhi and Woody Guthrie--who had the courage to make their own path. "Out in the Parkin' Lot," the Darrell Scott collaboration which Clark recorded on 1997's live Keepers, has a more lived-in feel here, and better captures the novelistic scene of roadhouse rowdiness. ("Now there's a couple of cowpokes puttin' up their dukes / There wasn't much to it after both of 'em puked.") Clark knows how to deliver these gems with optimum emotional impact: His cover of Townes Van Zandt's aching "No Lonesome Tune" goes bone-deep despite its underplayed pathos, as does "The Randall Knife"-ish "Funny Bone," about a rodeo clown brought down by faithless love. But he's no less affecting on "Tornado Time in Texas," a jaunty country-blues tune spiked with a shuffle chorus ("Blow the tattoo off of your arm"), or on "Cinco De Mayo in Memphis," a wildly surrealistic snapshot of Mexican deckhands in the blue-suede-shoes territory of Graceland. Last year, the Americana Music Association honored Clark with its Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriter. This album is further proof that he deserved it. --Alanna NashCountry Music CDs
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