Guy Clark - Best of the Sugar Hill Years

Title: Best of the Sugar Hill Years Artist: Guy Clark Release Date: 3/13/2007 Label: Sugar Hill Records Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 015891402420 Genre: Country Styles: Progressive Country, Country-Folk, Alt-Country, Alternative/Indie Rock Moods: Bittersweet, Earthy, Melancholy, Reflective, Relaxed, Soothing, Warm, Amiable/Good-Natured, Gentle, Laid-Back/Mellow, Light, Literate, Poignant, Rousing, Sad, Self-Conscious, Sentimental, Sophisticated, Wry, Autumnal, Earnest, Intimate Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 4 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Magnolia Wind
2. Cold Dog Soup
3. Soldier's Joy, 1864
4. South Coast of Texas [Live]
5. Sis Draper
6. Mud
7. Ain't No Trouble to Me
8. A Little of Both [Live]
9. Dancin Days
10. Fort Worth Blues
11. Red River
12. Arizona Star
13. Bunkhouse Blues
14. Queenie's Song
15. Out in the Parking Lot [Live]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Sugar Hill Records 4024

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Guy Clark is considered one of the best songwriters to come out of the Texas scene during the '70s (or any other scene). He earned his rep and royalties penning classics like "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting for a Train." Like so many of his fellow songwriters, however, Clark's quiet observational style never quite jibed with major-label status, eventually leading him to join Sugar Hill's roster. Best of the Sugar Hill Years captures Clark between the mid-'90s and the early 2000s, comfortable in his craft and joined by a number of fine pickers including multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott. There are a number of solid selections on Best of the Sugar Hill Years, including the sardonic title track from Cold Dog Soup and the jaunty "Sis Draper." One somewhat odd aspect to this collection is that it was pulled from only three albums, Keepers (1997), Cold Dog Soup (1999), and The Dark (2002), and the first of these is live. This is an around-about way of saying that the collection is a rather narrow one, concentrating on a six-year period from someone who's been in the business for over 30 years. The collection works best, then, as a companion piece to Rounder Records' earlier two-set disc from 1995, Craftsman. Best of the Sugar Hill Years will nonetheless provide a solid overview for those unfamiliar with Clark's later accomplishments. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide

Name Credits Chris Latham Producer Darrell Scott Guitar (Baritone), Producer, Dobro, Mandolin, Banjo, Marimbula, Vocal Harmony, Guitar, Guitar (Nylon String), Mandocello, Accordion David Rawlings Vocal Harmony Emmylou Harris Vocal Harmony Fred Jasper Compilation Producer Gillian Welch Vocal Harmony Guy Clark Producer, Vocals, Guitar Jim McGuire Photography Miles Wilkinson Producer Shawn Camp Vocals, Fiddle, Guitar Sue Meyer Design Suzy Ragsdale Vocal Harmony, Accordion Tim O'Brien Fiddle Travis Clark Bass Verlon Thompson Mandolin, Guitar (Nylon String), Guitar, Vocal Harmony, Harmonica, National Steel Guitar, Producer, Banjo, Percussion