“Now, I am a terrible bass player…but I was the kid, and that was what the kid did. A few months later he was playing bass in Guy’s band. While it was a pretty cool hat, Earle remembers, “worn in just right with some beads I fixed up around it,” Clark did eventually hear his songs. I was doing some of my earliest songs, ‘Ben McCullough’ and ‘The Mercenary Song.’ But he was in the pool room and when I go in there the first thing he says to me is `I like your hat.’” “So I was pretty excited when I went into the club and the bartender, a friend of mine says, ‘Guy’s here.’ I wanted him to hear me play.
Everyone knew his songs, ‘Desperados Waiting For A Train,’ ‘LA Freeway,’ he’d been singing them before they came out on Old No. “If you were from Texas, and serious, Guy Clark was a king. They let you have two drafts, or pass the hat, but you couldn’t do both. There were a couple of places where you could get on stage, play your songs. “Back then if you wanted to be where the best songwriters were, you had to go to Nashville. “It was 1974, I was 19 and I had just hitch-hiked from San Antonio to Nashville,” Earle said in mid-Texas-cum-Greenwich Village drawl. Steve Earle, a man who doesn’t mind telling a story, was talking about the first thing Guy Clark ever said to him. Come into Cactus Music and purchase your copy of Steve Earle & The Duke’s new album, “Guy” on CD or LP and receive a wristband to Steve’s ONLY Houston performance that evening.
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