Guy Clark and I look almost exactly alike. People are always coming up
to me in folk music clubs and asking for my autograph.
Sounds like a great show, only lacking Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch
Hancock/
Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Recently, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt, & Lyle Lovett played town
> (I'm not sure we've mentioned any of them!?), in a little concert I
> missed. I did like one comment from the reviewer, though: "The
> songwriting prowess onstage was staggering indeed, but also telling.
> Between the four of them, you saw a range of roots music that barely
> makes a blip on the commercial radar. Hiatt and Lovett have had
> intermittent success; Clark and Ely function as cult artists -- the
> direct line between high record sales and poor quality wouldn't be
> more apparent if Tim McGraw showed up for a songwriting showdown
> followed by a public flogging."
>
> Ah yes,....
>
> Doug
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
>
> You've got to find some way of saying it
> without sayng it.
>
> Duke Ellington
>
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