Songwriting legend Guy Clark has produced an impressive collection of timeless gems that consistently transcend sales figures and musical genres. He continues to be the type of songwriter whom young artists study and seasoned writers (as well as discriminating listeners) revere. Born in the West Texas town of Monahans, where he was raised mostly by his grandmother (his mother worked and his father was in the Army), many of Clark's songs have centered around his days growing up, including "Texas 1947" (from his debut album) and the 1992 song, "Boats to Build," which hearkened back to a summer job he once had as a teenager on the Gulf Coast.

Later in his life he moved to Houston and began working the folk-music circuit, where he met fellow songwriter Townes Van Zandt (the two often toured together until Van Zandt's death in 1997) and blues singers Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. It was there that Guy began playing and writing his sturdy brand of folk- and blues-influenced country music. Tough, bare-boned and dryly sentimental, his beautiful songs reflect the man himself and display an old-fashioned masculinity that emphasizes honesty, integrity, and carefully chosen words, rather than bluster and pomp. His recordings are full of craggy, wistful story-songs, and his plainspoken delivery lends itself to his persona.

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