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Hey Gang,

I hate to say it, but I recieved the new Guy Clark album "Workbench Songs" in the mail on the same day that I bought the new Buffett album. Guy's new album is incredible!! I haven't really even listened to "Take the Weather With You" yet. I said awhile back in another post that 2006 was going to be a great year for new music. In my opinion Clark's latest is by far the best new release of the year. I am listening to it as I type this thread. The only problem that I have found is trying to find a copy of the album at a store. They keep pushing back the release date, but with that being said if you order it from GuyClark.com you will have it in a few days.
Also for those interested Guy is going out on the road in support of the new album. Here is a list of his tour dates. Tickets are around $35.00 at most venues. I have already got my tickets for the Pittsburgh show!!!!!!!

10/22/06 7:00 PM Charleston, WV Cultural Center Theatre details
10/24/06 7:30 PM New York, NY Joe's Pub details
11/4/06 8:00 PM Pomeroy, OH Fur Peace Ranch details
12/9/06 8:00 PM Dallas, TX. Granada Theatre details
12/11/06 7:30 PM Austin, TX. The Cactus Cafe details
12/12/06 7:30 PM Austin, TX. The Cactus Cafe details
1/13/07 8:00 PM Cincinnati, OH Aronoff Center for Performing Arts details
1/14/07 7:30 PM Indianapolis, IN Clowes Memorial Hall details
1/17/07 7:30 PM Wausau, WI Grand Theatre details
1/18/07 8:00 PM Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater details
1/19/07 8:00 PM Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre details
1/20/07 7:30 PM Cleveland, OH Cleveland Palace Theatre details
1/21/07 8:00 PM Louisville, KY Kentucky Center for the Arts details
1/22/07 7:30 PM Greenville, SC Peace Concert Hall details
1/25/07 8:00 PM Charlotte, SC Ovens Auditorium details
1/26/07 8:00 PM North Charleston, SC North Charleston Perf Arts Center details
1/27/07 8:00 PM Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle details
2/6/07 8:00 PM Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center details
2/8/07 7:30 PM Colorado Springs, CO Pikes Peak Center details
2/9/07 8:00 PM Denver, CO Paramount Theatre details
2/11/07 8:00 PM Nashville, TN Schermerhorn Symphony Center details
2/17/07 8:00 PM Meridan, MS Riley Center for Performing Arts details
2/18/07 7:30 PM Birmingham, AL Alabama Theatre details
2/28/07 8:00 PM Alpine, CA Viejas Casino/Dreamcatcher Room details
3/2/07 8:00 PM Redwood City, CA Redwood CityThe Fox Theatre details
3/6/07 8:00 PM Arcata, CA Van Duzer Theatre details
3/7/07 8:00 PM Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Auditorium details
3/9/07 8:00 PM Bellingham, WA Mount Baker Theatre details
3/10/07 8:00 PM Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre details
3/12/07 8:00 PM Vancouver, BC Centre in Vancouver for Perf Arts details
3/13/07 8:00 PM Victoria, BC University Hall details
3/15/07 8:00 PM Edmonton, ALB Francis Winspear Centre details
3/16/07 8:00 PM Calgary, ALB Knox United Church details
3/19/07 8:00 PM Winnipeg, MAN Manitoba Centennial Centre details
3/29/07 7:30 PM Owings Mills, MD Gordon Center for Perf. Arts details
3/30/07 7:30 PM Harrisburg, PA Whitaker Center details
3/31/07 8:00 PM Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Lecture Hall details
4/10/07 11:45 AM New York, NY B.B. King Blues Club details
4/11/07 8:00 PM Bay Shore, NY Boulton Center for the Performing Arts details
4/13/07 8:00 PM Irvington, NY Irvington Town Hall details
4/14/07 8:00 PM Homer, NY Center for the Arts details
4/20/07 7:30 PM Lewisburg, WV Carnegie Hall details
5/12/07 8:00 PM Pittsfield, MA The Colonial Theatre

Take care everyone.

CJ

I forgot to mention that the original version of "Cinco De Mayo in Memphis" appears on this album.

It is a great CD. With most of my listening time spent on Buffett I have listened to this one a bit too...a lot less than Jimmy.

I had to order from his web site and pay a PRIMO price for it. That's ok...I wanted to have it bad.

YES, Cactus Cafe in December. Love that place. Woo hooo!

Yeah, Guy's Cinco de Mayo is super, but Jimmy's cover is really special too.

Just a note......
all the shows from Jan 13th thru Mar 19th are with Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, & Joe Ely. These will be great shows but will only feature about 6 Guy Clark songs.

I am really enjoying this CD as well

We have tickets for the Vancouver show, as much as I
would enjoy seeing Guy solo again I know that this is
going to be a fantastic night hearing the four of them
live in a great venue.
Don't pass up the chance to see these guys if the
tour comes to your area

Awesome CD!

Guy has been a favorite for many many years.....

conched wrote:It is a great CD. With most of my listening time spent on Buffett I have listened to this one a bit too...a lot less than Jimmy.

I had to order from his web site and pay a PRIMO price for it. That's ok...I wanted to have it bad.

YES, Cactus Cafe in December. Love that place. Woo hooo!

Yeah, Guy's Cinco de Mayo is super, but Jimmy's cover is really special too.

I could have got you one pre sale..
Guy Had them for sale when I saw him..

At the show Saturday night, Jimmy did Cinco de Mayo in Memphis for the first time in concert.

He also said it was written by a Houston native, Guy Clark.

Just reading up on Guy and find that although he spent time in Houston in the 60s, he is a native of Monahans out in West Texas and grew up in Rockport, TX.

His father was an attorney in Rockport and Guy learned to play guitar at age 16.

http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/s ... x?cid=1648

Born in Monahans, Texas, on November 6, 1941, and raised in Rockport near the Texas Gulf Coast, Clark grew up in a home where the gift of a pocketknife was a rite of passage and poetry was read aloud. At age 16, instructed by his father’s law partner, he learned to play on a $12 flamenco guitar, which he also completely dissected and put back together. Teen pursuits included sneaking into the local VFW Hall to watch Roy Orbison rehearse.

I also read he worked a summer in the shipyards.

From CMT
http://www.cmt.com/news/articles/154043 ... _guy.jhtml

He said two experiences early in his life had a profound effect on how he approaches music, as well as life.

In high school, he worked a summer as a carpenter's helper at a shipyard on the Texas Gulf Coast.

"That was one of the best things that ever happened to me," Clark said. "Working for guys who built 80-foot wooden workboats on the Gulf Coast. These were serious working boats, not yachts. And to watch those guys work was ... well, especially with building boats, everything's got to be square with the world. It's not like you can just go up and put a square on the wall. It's got to be square with the world. You have to think like that. Just to watch these guys work and to just see the real beauty with which they did this carpentry on boats. And I had always had a love of working with wood. Growing up in West Texas, you get a pocketknife and a whetstone first thing and make your own toys out of fruit boxes. I always took to that. I loved that, working at the shipyard.

"Working with those carpenters was a wonderful thing. It was tough to tell my parents," Clark said, pausing to laugh heartily at the memory.

"My father was a lawyer. He asked me in my senior year if I had decided what I wanted to do," Clark laughed again. "And I told him, 'I wanna be a boat carpenter! I wanna build boats!'"

http://www.buffettnews.com/song265.html

It's time for a change
I'm tired of that same ol same
The same ol words the same ol lines
The same ol tricks and the same ol rhymes

Days precious days
Roll in and out like waves
I got boards to bend I got planks to nail
I got charts to make I got seas to sail

I'm gonna build me a boat
With these two hands
It’ll be a fair curve
From a noble plan
Let the chips fall where they will
Cause I've got boats to build

Sails are just like wings
The wind can make em sing
Songs of life songs of hope
Songs to keep your dreams afloat
I'm gonna build me a boat
With these two hands
It’ll be a fair curve
From a noble plan
Let the chips fall where they will
Cause I've got boats to build

Shores distant shores
There’s where I'm headed for
Got the stars to guide my way
Sail into the light of day

I'm gonna build me a boat
With these two hands
It’ll be a fair curve
From a noble plan
Let the chips fall where they will
Cause I've got boats to build

(Although Jimmy's version is great, you should all listen to Guy's version of this beautiful song.)

South Coast of Texas

Oh, the south coast of Texas is a thin slice of life
It' s salty and hard it is stern as a knife
Where the wind is for blowin' up hurricanes for showin'
Snakes how to swim and the trees how to lean

Chorus
The shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints
Drinkin' em down for they sail with the dawn
They're bound for the Mexican Bay of Campeche
And the deck hands are singin' adios Jole Blon

Now there's snowbirds in search of that sunshine and night life
And fond of greasin' palms down the beach as they're goin'
All this livin' on the edge of the waters of the world
Demands the dignity of whooping cranes and
The likes of Gilbert Roland

Chorus
In the cars of my youth how I tore thru those sand dunes
And cut up my tires on them oyster shell roads
But nothin' is forever say the old men in the shipyards
Turnin' trees into shrimp boats Hell I guess they ought to know

Chorus



http://www.lpdiscography.com/c/Clarkg/c ... hcoast.htm