Guy Clark ~ Similar Artists

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Townes Van Zandt - 100% match to Guy Clark

John Townes Van Zandt, 7 March 1944, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, d. 1 January 1997, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, USA. A country and folk blues singer and guitarist, Van Zandt was a native Texan and great-grandson of one of the original settlers who founded Fort Worth in the mid-nineteenth... Read more

Jerry Jeff Walker - 83% match to Guy Clark

Ronald Clyde Crosby, 16 March 1942, Oneonta, New York, USA. Although Walker initially pursued a career as a folk-singer in New York's Greenwich Village, he first forged his reputation as a member of Circus Maximus. He left this promising group following their debut album, when a... Read more

Rodney Crowell - 83% match to Guy Clark

7 August 1950, Houston, Texas, USA. Combining careers as a country songwriter, producer and artist, Crowell rose to fame in the 80s as an influential figure in Nashville's new breed of country traditionalists, along with Emmylou Harris, in whose Hot Band he worked for three... Read more

Joe Ely - 80% match to Guy Clark

9 February 1947, Amarillo, Texas, USA. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Ely is one of the most completely realized artists in contemporary country music, especially in the live situation where he excels. His work for MCA Records in the late 70s is latterly regarded as the link... Read more

Steve Earle - 73% match to Guy Clark

Stephen Fain Earle, 17 January 1955, Fort Monroe, Virginia, USA. Earle's father was an air-traffic controller and the family was raised in Schertz, near San Antonio, Texas. Earle played an acoustic guitar from the age of 11, but he also terrorized his school friends with a... Read more

Robert Earl Keen - 69% match to Guy Clark

11 January 1956, Houston, Texas, USA. In the mid-70s, Keen befriended Lyle Lovett at Texas A&M University, an establishment that combined academic and military activities. They often sang and played guitar together and they wrote "This Old Porch", which appeared on Lovett's... Read more

Lyle Lovett - 60% match to Guy Clark

Lyle Pearce Lovett, 1 November 1957, Klein, Texas, USA. Singer-songwriter Lovett grew up 25 miles north of Houston in the rural Klein community (an area largely populated by farmers of German extraction), which was named after his grandfather, Adam Klein. During his teenage... Read more

Lucinda Williams - 59% match to Guy Clark

26 January 1953, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Her father, Miller Williams, is a professor of literature and a professional poet, but it was her mother, a music graduate, who influenced Lucinda the most. After a period spent travelling in the early 70s, Williams concentrated on... Read more

Gram Parsons - 57% match to Guy Clark

Ingram Cecil Connor III, 5 November 1946, Winter Haven, Florida, USA, d. 19 September 1973, Joshua Tree, California, USA. Parsons' brief but influential career ended in his untimely death in 1973. His solo recordings and his work with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds... Read more

John Prine - 57% match to Guy Clark

10 October 1946, Maywood, Illinois, USA. His grandfather had played with Merle Travis, and Prine himself started playing guitar at the age of 14. He then spent time in college, worked as a postman for five years, and spent two years in the army. He began his musical career... Read more