Guy Clark - Looking For the Words (2025) [Hi-Res]

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Title: Looking For the Words
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: 2025 Truly Handmade Records
Genre: Country, Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-44.1kHz FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:13:32
Total Size: 279 / 656 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Susanna (3:02)
2. Frankie and Johnny (3:14)
3. Rye Whiskey (3:57)
4. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (6:58)
5. Raggedy Ann (3:50)
6. Spring Thing (3:55)
7. Step Inside My House (5:20)
8. The Gypsy Boy (4:28)
9. Rain Brings Me Down (3:25)
10. Corina Corina (5:22)
11. Wine and Cigarettes (2:17)
12. It May Come As News (3:13)
13. These Days (4:39)
14. Hill Country Blues (3:31)
15. Looking For The Words (4:55)
16. Hold On Brother (3:24)
17. San Francisco Bay Blues (3:43)
18. Headed Back to California (4:29)

Looking For The Words: Live at the U of H Coffee House features Guy Clark performing solo acoustic versions of early originals and illuminating covers

Let’s travel back to October 30, 1970: A week before his 29th birthday, Guy Clark is performing on the University of Houston campus. Back in his home state after a short stint in California, Clark is still a couple years away from moving to Nashville, where his career as a songwriter would flourish. On this night, he delights a small coffeehouse audience with 12 original songs plus a half-dozen covers. And, as it happens, a reel-to-reel tape recorder is running. The tape was lost until 2021 when the opening act for that night, John Kunz, found the tape stuck in a cavity behind a storage tray.

Cover art is courtesy of Guy’s friend, renowned artist Mel Chin.

Eight of the Guy Clark originals on this album have never been heard before. In addition, there are rare Guy songs and interesting covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, and Jesse Fuller.