tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454101023481599661.post9067725454346136744..comments2023-11-25T07:37:16.161-05:00Comments on Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif: Guy Clark – The Best of the Dualtone YearsMike Regenstreifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12721500918572707338noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454101023481599661.post-56896671726132848982017-03-03T12:40:48.452-05:002017-03-03T12:40:48.452-05:00Love your reviews and have been a Guy Clark fan fo...Love your reviews and have been a Guy Clark fan for as long as you have, perhaps even a bit longer. Growing up in Texas, his music was the soundtrack of my life and family. The characters in his songs were my friends and family. The "drifter, a driller of oil wells" of "Desperados Waiting for a Train" was my grandfather to me. I drove past the Green Frog Cafe with some regularity, even stopped in on occasion. Guy Clark was the poet laureate of Texas in my estimation as so many of his songs are inextricably linked to the state. Reading this review, I also sensed that you and I were living parallel lives as fans of folk/traditional music. While you were discovering my local troupadours, I was entralled with music from Quebec. I wore the grooves out of multiple copies of Kate and Anna McGarrigle's early album, titled simply by their names. As much as I loved "Heart Like a Wheel" by Linda Ronstadt, I found that rendition difficult to listen to once I heard it from the angelic voices of the authors. It seems almost fateful that find myself here in Quebec, and loving it, I might add. My wife and I had the wonderful good fortune to see Kate and Anna McGarrigle at an impromptu performance accompanied by Emilylou Harris at Theatre St. Denis only about a year before Kate's passing. Thanks for the review. I must purchase a copy of this wonderful retrospective of the late, great Guy Clark's work. Baie-d'Urfe Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17903990892700279139noreply@blogger.com