| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Albert Lee, Buddy Emmons, Emory Gordy, Johnny Gimble, Ricky Skaggs, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes
CRAFTSMAN features three early Guy Clark albums--GUY CLARK, THE SOUTH COAST OF TEXAS and BETTER DAYS--in their entirety.
Personnel includes: Guy Clark (vocals, acoustic guitar); Hank DeVito (acoustic, electric & steel guitars); Richard Bennett (acoustic, electric & lap steel guitars, concertina, triangle); Philip Donnelly, Gary Nicholson (acoustic & electric guitars); Jack Hicks (steel guitar, banjo); Mack White (mandolin); Lisa Silver (violin, fiddle); Kris Wilkinson (viola); Byron Bach (cello); Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Wayne Jackson (flugelhorn); David Briggs (piano, organ, harpsichord, Clavinet, keyboards); B. Spears (bass); Jerry Kroon (drums); Farrell Morris (steel drums, shaker); Kay Oslin, Gordon Payne, Don Everly (background vocals); Albert Lee, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Buddy Emmons, Vince Gill, Emory Gordy, Ricky Skaggs, Johnny Gimble.
Engineers: Don Cobb, Donivan Cowart, Bradley Hartman
Principally recorded at Magnolia Sound Studios, North Hollywood, California and Bullet Recording Studio A, Nashville, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Robert K. Oermann.
"Craftsman" may be the perfect word to describe Texas songwriter Guy Clark. He is, after all, an artist who labors over his work until it is solid bedrock. The irony, in Clark's case, is that for all his painstaking attention to detail, his songs roll off with an easy sureness, as if he just knocked them off while waiting for a bus. Make no mistake: Clarke, like John Prine and Townes Van Zandt, knows how difficult it is to create an entire world within two or three minutes.
CRAFTSMAN presents three albums (GUY CLARK, THE SOUTH COAST OF TEXAS, BETTER DAYS) in their entirety. Clark instills the songs with his rough but dignified world-view, where "Comfort and Crazy" sums up the love of his life, where ill-fated smugglers contemplate the weight of their mistakes from jail cells, and where grown men finally learn to mourn their fathers. Clark presents each precise universe with little to no fanfare. The rigors of his world do not suffer superfluousness or window dressing gladly. He simply inhabits them, thereby shifting the tectonic plates ever so slightly in our own day-to-day existence.
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