RARE COUNTRY 45 ~ GUY CLARK: TEXAS COOKIN’ ~ RCA PROMO ONLY ~ YELLOW VINYL~ LOOK

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RARE COUNTRY 45 ~ GUY CLARK ~ TEXAS COOKIN’ ~ RCA PROMO ONLY ~ YELLOW VINYL
ARTIST:
GUY CLARK
TITLE:
TEXAS COOKIN’
LABEL:
RCA
# JK-13688
PB-13688
RELEASE: 1983 ‘PROMO ONLY’ ~ CLEAR YELLOW VINYL ~ DOUBLE A SIDED 45
CONDITION: EX-
Perfect looking vinyl. A fantastic clean copy.
GENRE: COUNTRY, OUTLAW COUNTRY, TEXAS SINGER/SONGWRITER
This is the title track from Guy Clark's sophomore effort, Texas Cookin’, originally released in 1976. It was the follow up to his classic first release, ‘Old No. 1’. This was released near the beginning, and some say the height, of the ‘Outlaw Country’ movement in Nashville.
It was recorded at Chips Moman's American Studios in Nashville.
This is a ‘Promo Only’ release from RCA, released in 1983, at the time of his ‘Greatest Hits’ LP, and was never released as a commercial single. The only way to get this as a 45 single is on this RCA promo. It’s on clear yellow vinyl, not styrene, and sounds great. It’s a double A side single, in Stereo, having the same tune on both sides. The label is clearly marked ‘Not for Sale’ and has the timings listed for the intro and ending, to help DJ’s work it into their playlists. It also states that it’s from the ‘forthcoming’ album, so it was released ahead of the Greatest Hits LP.
It is performed in that simple, soulful, down-home 70’s Country style, before Nashville started putting shine, polish and glitz on everything.
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Guy Clark was one of the early Texas Outlaw country singer-songwriters, along with Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, and Jerry Jeff Walker, that packed up from Texas, moved to Nashville, and threw a wrench into Country Music in the mid-1970s.
Clark's strength as a songwriter, especially a ballad writer, is almost unequaled among his peers. His songs were so good that they remained powerful even in the hands of other performers. Numerous Country artists have charted with Clark-penned tunes: Johnny Cash, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, and Bobby Bare to name a few.
Clark’s songs are full of deeply personal poetry about his life, his vices and his friends. Clark's songwriting has always focused on the details; memories and moments collected from his hard life.
Guy invited you into his world of colorful characters and tells their stories. Each of his songs is a story, a memory, a chapter, a movie, all written with an Acoustic Guitar.
They're uniquely personal and often autobiographical, yet distill into basic universal truths, such as, on this song, the taste and joys of authentic Texas Cooking. As Clark says in the song, Texas Cooking “Tastes so good it gets you high.”
This song was written in Nashville, but has Guy’s Texas memories all through it.
If you are a fan of Texas singer/songwriters, or 70s Outlaw type country, then you will love this.
A nice, rare, promo-only 45 to add to your collection.
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After high school, Guy moved to Houston and worked in the folk music revival scene there. Arriving in Houston in the early Sixties, he quickly hooked up with fellow troubadours Townes Van Zandt, Mickey Newbury, and Jerry Jeff Walker in that scene.
After a few years, and the tragic suicide of his girlfriend, he moved to Nashville with his girlfriend’s sister Susanna, where he helped create the ‘Americana’ music genre and helped plant the roots of the Outlaw Country movement.
In Nashville, he became a friend and mentor to scrappy expatriate Texans including Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell and Townes, who tagged along to Nashville with Clark and Susanna. Townes actually lived with the Clark’s for extended periods, between tours.
The doors of Clark’s house were always open to songwriters and musicians, and many a night were spent playing, writing, chatting, drinking and hanging around.
The scene at Clark’s place served as the catalyst for a whole new group songwriters, some serious new raw talent, that would go on to change Country music.
Clark’s house is featured in the great Nashville Singer/Songwriter documentary film ‘Heartworn Highways’ (1981) along with songwriters Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, and Clark himself.
Guy and Susanna eventually married in 1972. Townes was the best man. They stayed married for many years and their tumultuous marriage was fuel for many of Clark’s songs. Susanna was a talented artist and songwriter herself. Her paintings were used for several albums made in Nashville, Willie Nelson’s ‘Stardust’ one of the better known ones.
Clark died in 2016. On his passing, the New York Times described him as "a king of the Texas troubadours", declaring his body of work "as indelible as that of anyone working in the Americana idiom in the last decades of the 20th century".
Rest in Peace Guy Clark. Your songs and songwriting will be missed by all your fans.
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