Revered songwriter Guy Clark is set to release his first studio album in four years, My Favorite Picture Of You, on July 23 via Dualtone Records. The album’s title track was written as an homage to Clark’s wife of 40 years, Susanna Clark, who passed away in the summer of 2012. The photo of Susanna [...]

Ashley Monroe, perhaps best known for her work with the  country trio Pistol Annies, returns this spring with a stellar new solo album, Like A Rose, which is being released on Warner Nashville. Here, Monroe performs the record’s title track, an autobiographical song she co-wrote with Guy Clark and Jon Randall in her late teens. [...]

Emmylou Harris, one of God’s own singers, will release a duets album with Rodney Crowell this year. We spoke with the iconic chanteuse about the new record, the abiding influence of Gram Parsons, and eulogizing her father in song. A good duet: You get two voices that are unique and then you create a third [...]

Here’s links to our ongoing coverage of the Americana Music Festival, Nashville’s annual celebration of roots music in all it’s permutations. The Festival wraps this Saturday with a series of shows, featuring Buddy Miller and LeeAnn Womack, Kasey Anderson, The Trishas, and Rodney Crowell and many more. Gillian Welch, Alabama Shakes, Jason Isbell Take Home [...]

As part of the Americana Festival, Guy Clark and long-time compadre Rodney Crowell discussed the legacy of Woody Guthrie at a panel on Thursday. The two songwriters played a few Woody songs, too. Clark performed “1913 Massacre” (a song he called “spine-tingling”) and Crowell contributed “Oklahoma Hills,” which he said was the first Guthrie song [...]

Guy Clark’s wife, Susanna Clark, passed away on Wednesday, June 24. Susanna Clark was a painter and songwriter, penning songs for Emmylou Harris, Jerry Jeff Walker and others. Read the Tennessean’s obit here. Watch Guy Clark perform a song he wrote for her, “My Favorite Picture Of You,” and hear the story about what inspired it [...]

This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark Various Artists (Icehouse) Rating: At the Austin lovefest staged in November for Guy Clark’s 70th birthday, more than half of the 30-some artists included on the album This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark showed up to pay homage to their songwriting hero. “I’ve [...]

Guy Clark, the iconic songwriter who turns 70 this November, recently invited American Songwriter into his lair, where he discussed Hemingway and the natural high that comes with making art. Guitar 101: Writing songs is so cerebral, staring out the window for two days. But building guitars is real hand-eye stuff, so it’s right-brain versus [...]

Guy Clark performs “My Favorite Picture Of You” and discusses writing the song.

Guy Clark discusses his evolution as a songwriter.

  Guy Clark, the iconic songwriter who turns 70 this November, recently invited American Songwriter into his workshop, a smoke-filled sanctuary where he spends his days writing songs and building guitars. Filmmaker John Ritchie was on hand to document Clark’s performance of the never-before-heard song “My Favorite Picture Of You,” a tune he wrote about [...]

The veteran songwriter takes us inside his Nashville home.