WITHOUT GETTING KILLED OR CAUGHT
ON DEMAND
Remembering a wise, wry alt.country originator.
By Andrew Mueller
Country folk: (l–r) Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Susan Walker and Jerry Jeff Walker
GUY CLARK FAMILY
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GUY CLARK’s death in 2016, aged 74, was widely and correctly mourned not merely as the passing of a titan of modern country music, but as something like the end of an era. Though Clark had never become massively famous, he’d written a lot of songs that had, while those who knew of him revered him as a flame-keeper of a particular sort of country – literary and wry, with gentle iconoclastic tendencies. Clark may, more than anyone else, have invented what we now think of as Americana and alt.country.