An Interview With Songwriting Legend Guy Clark

November 02, 2007
Songwriting Legend Guy Clark On His Own Guitars

For those of you unfamiliar with Guy Clark, he's a number of things: a folk musician, a guitar designer, and most of all, a songwriter. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Foundation's Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004, earned Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in 2005, and received the honor of being named the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's 2006 Artist-In-Residence.

Gearwire's Patrick Ogle had the great opportunity to sit down with the songwriting legend in Clark's guitar studio in Nashville. Guy shows off a guitar that he not only crafted himself but also prefers to play over acoustics with famous names.

Check out Guy Clark's guitar and hear what he has to say about it by watching this video, and be sure to stick around for more conversation with Clark.

Presenter: Patrick Ogle, Gearwire
Location: Nashville, TN

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a great interview, thank you

By: tim
a great interview, thank you gearwire.
Sat, 2007-11-10 19:51

interesting

By: Anonymous Coward
good stuff. thanks
Tue, 2007-11-13 02:27

Great Interview

By: Victoria
As always, Patrick is the awesome storyteller:)
Tue, 2007-11-13 17:35

alas these were not

By: patrick
My stories...but I will take Guy Clark's over MINE any day!
Fri, 2007-11-16 14:47

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