View basket “Sleepless Nights” has been added to your basket. Guy (Indies Only) Steve Earle And The Dukes SKU: NW5297LP Barcode: 607396529711 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West Released Date: 26th March 2019 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Steve Earle was nineteen and had just hitchhiked from San Antonio to Nashville in 1974. Back then if you wanted to be where the best songwriters were, you had to be there. Guy Clark had moved to Nashville and if you were from Texas, Guy Clark was king. Years later, Steve would be playing bass guitar in Guy’s band and flying high on what would become an indelible friendship of likeminded musicians who bonded in a kinship of stories told through song. Flash forward more than forty years to May 2016. Guy Clark had just succumbed to cancer after a long battle with Lymphoma. Guy had lived with his disease and had continued to write songs until the day he died. He also painted, built instruments and owned a guitar shop in the Bay Area. According to Earle, “You hung around with him [Guy] and knew why they call what artists do disciplines. Because he was disciplined.” The same can be said of Earle. In the fall of 2018, Steve and The Dukes went into House Of Blues studio in Nashville and recorded ‘Guy’ in six days. “I wanted it to sound live… When you’ve got a catalog like Guy’s and you’re only doing sixteen tracks, you know each one is going to be strong.” Earle and his current, perhaps best-ever, Dukes line up take on these songs with a spirit of reverent glee and invention. The tunes are all over the place and so is the band, offering max energy on such disparate entries as the bluegrass raveup ‘Sis Draper’ and the talking blues memoir of ‘Texas 1947’. Earle’s raw vocal on the sweet, sad ‘That Old Time Feeling’ is heartbreaking, sounding close enough to the grave as to be doing a duet with his late friend and mentor. You can hear little hints of where Earle came from. The stark ‘Randall Knife’ has the line “a better blade that was ever made was probably forged in Hell,” which wouldn’t be out of place in a Steve Earle original. Also hard to beat is ‘The Last Gunfighter’, a sardonic Western saga to which Earle offers a bravura reading of the chorus: “the smell of the black powder smoke and the stand in the street at the turn of joke.” In the end, however, ‘Guy’ leads the listener back to its beginning, namely Guy Clark, which is what any good ‘tribute’ should do. ‘Guy’ is a saga of friendship, its ups and downs, what endures. We are lucky that Earle remembers and honours these things, because like old friends, ‘Guy’ is a diamond. Gatefold double LP on 150g vinyl. Digital download album. Also available to independent retailers on gatefold double LP on 150g blue coloured vinyl. Artist Steve Earle And The Dukes Genre Americana / Country Label New West Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Dublin Blues L.A. Freeway Texas 1947 Desperados Waiting for a Train Rita Ballou The Ballad of Laverne and Captain Flint The Randall Knife Anyhow I Love You That Old Time Feeling Heartbroke The Last Gunfighter Ballad Out in the Parking Lot She Ain’t Going Nowhere Sis Draper New Cut Road Old Friends Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Steve Earle And The Dukes and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Steve Earle And The Dukes Guy Americana / Country | New West | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 29th March 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steve Earle And The Dukes Guy £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: NW5296LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Woodpigeon Thumbtacks And Glue Americana / Country | Fierce Panda | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th February 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Woodpigeon Thumbtacks And Glue £14.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Fierce Panda SKU: NONG81LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lie Down in the Night Americana / Country | Domino | Miscellaneous Released 27th May 2008 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lie Down in the Night £14.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP222 Formats: Miscellaneous Released Date: 27th May 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Todd Snider Crank It, We’re Doomed Americana / Country | Aimless Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th November 2023 £23.00 Select options Todd Snider Crank It, We’re Doomed £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Aimless Records Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th November 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Calexico Hot Rail Americana / Country | City Slang | 2LP Released 11th November 2010 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Calexico Hot Rail £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50042LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 11th November 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kris Kristofferson Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends: Demos 68-72 Americana / Country | Light In The Attic | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd July 2010 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kris Kristofferson Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends: Demos 68-72 £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA050LP Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd July 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl Americana / Country | Nonesuch | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th February 2021 £39.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl £39.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597917581 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Calexico and Iron & Wine Years to Burn (Coloured Vinyl) Americana / Country | City Slang | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th June 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Calexico and Iron & Wine Years to Burn (Coloured Vinyl) £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50224X Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steve Earle Just an American Boy (Remastered) Americana / Country | Warner Bros | 3LP Released 13th October 2017 £50.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steve Earle Just an American Boy (Remastered) £50.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Warner Bros SKU: AWAR562332 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 13th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jim James Uniform Clarity Americana / Country | ATO | 1LP Released 5th October 2018 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jim James Uniform Clarity £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: ATO SKU: ATO0435 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Devil Makes Three, The Chains Are Broken (Indies Only) Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th August 2018 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Devil Makes Three, The Chains Are Broken (Indies Only) £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: NW5264 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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