This Ones For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark

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2012 two CD collection, released to coincide with Guy Clark's 70th birthday. Artists include Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Shawn Colvin, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylous Harris and John Prine, Patty Griffin, Ron Sexsmith, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, Jerry Jeff Walker and others. The collection was lovingly produced by Grammy-winning producer Tamara Saviano (Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster) and frequent Clark co-writer Shawn Camp ("Sis Draper," "Magnolia Wind"). The tribute includes 30 tracks by 33 Americana artists who are friends and colleagues of Clark or who have been influenced by his remarkable compositions. The collection was mixed and mastered by Austin's Cedar Creek Records principal Fred Remmert.

Title Tracks for This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark

1. That Old Time Feeling (Rodney Crowell)
2. Anyhow I Love You (Lyle Lovett)
3. All He Wants Is You (Shawn Colvin)
4. Homeless (Shawn Camp)
5. Broken Hearted People (Ron Sexsmith)
6. Better Days (Rosanne Cash)
7. Desperadoes Waiting For A Train (Willie Nelson)
8. Baby Took A Limo To Memphis (Rosie Flores)
9. Magdalene (Kevin Welch)
10. Instant Coffee Blues (Suzy Bogguss)
11. Homegrown Tomatoes (Ray Wylie Hubbard)
12. Let Him Roll (John Townes Van Zandt II)
13. The Guitar (Ramblin Jack Elliott)
14. Cold Dog Soup (James McMurtry)
15. Worry B Gone (Hayes Carll)
16. Dublin Blues (Joe Ely)
17. Magnolia Wind (Emmylou Harris & John Prine)
18. The Last Gunfighter Ballad (Steve Earle)
19. All Through Throwing Good Love After Bad (Verlon Thompson)
20. The Dark (Terri Hendrix)
21. LA Freeway (Radney Foster)
22. The Cape (Patty Griffin)
23. Hemingway s Whiskey (Kris Kristofferson)
24. Texas Cookin (Gary Nicholson, Darrell Scott & Tim O Brien)
25. Stuff That Works (Jack Ingram)
26. Randall Knife (Vince Gill)
27. Texas 1947 (Robert Earl Keen)
28. Old Friends (Terry Allen)
29. She Ain t Goin Nowhere (The Trishas)
30. My Favorite Picture of You (Jerry Jeff Walker)

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189 of 190 people found the following review helpful

The best CD of 2011, November 29, 2011

Terry Mathews (a small town in east Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Audio CD)

I review music for a living, so I hear a lot of good tunes all the time. For my money, "This One's For Him" is the best CD of 2011. The artists who contributed to this collaboration brought their A-games to the studio to honor Clark, the dean of Texas music, who turned 70 last month.

Sorry this review is so long, but since everyone did such a good job, I think they should each get a mention.

Fellow Texan Rodney Crowell kicks things off with a solid cover of "That Old Time Feeling," followed by Lyle Lovett's brilliant turn on the 3/4 time "Anyhow I Love You." Both Crowell and Lovett gave smooth and polished performances at the tribute show in Austin on Nov. 2, with Lovett taking time to credit Clark with jumpstarting his career.

"Without Guy Clark, there would have been no Lyle Lovett," he said. "Before he even met me, he was telling everyone about my demo tape."

Shawn Colvin's sly "All He Wants is You" will make you rethink Clark's crusty...Read more

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful

Fitting tribute to one of country's finest songwriters, December 5, 2011

DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Audio CD)

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"THIS ONE'S FOR HIM: A TRIBUTE TO GUY CLARK"
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It's hard to imagine anyone more deserving of a top-flight tribute album than country-folk composer Guy Clark, who started his career in the early 1970s as one of the young turks of the Texas outlaw-folkie scene and has stood for decades as one of Americana's leading lights.

The wealth of this talent on this 2-CD set is nothing short of astounding, folks like Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle Joe Ely, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, and Willie Nelson, just to name a few. The roster is impressive, but so is the fact that so many of these artists are longtime friends and fans of Clark and his songs; leading this list is Jerry Jeff Walker, another Texas-indie icon whose version of "LA Freeway" was a signature song of the Americana scene before it had a...Read more

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful

The Cosmopolitan Down Home Best, December 31, 2011

Paul S. Illick "Corinthiano" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Audio CD)

Is there anyone anywhere who's a better songwriter than Guy Clark? This is music that's fundamentally human, will strike chords with anyone anywhere, by artists who are the all the best at what they do. Down home in sentiment, cosmopolitan in universality. Thanks Guy.