Steve Earle late models get the best in troubadouren.
He paid tribute to Townes Van Zandt on the excellent ’Townes’ in 2009. Now the honors he Guy Clark with not less successful ’Guy’.
Clark’s literary cowboypoesi clothes Earle as his best jeans, and texaneren feel clearly at home in the songs, as if it were his own.
There is no need to tinker with perfection, so Earle is mostly faithful to the originals, which bear the stamp of the, Clark was aware that the eraser is just as important as the pencil.
Sangsnedkeren økonomiserede with the words, but he chose the right, and his picturesque numbers are musical novellefilm, or the sound of John Steinbeck in a brandert.
’Desperados Waiting for a Train’ and ’The Last Gunfighter Ballad’ is dusty westerns, where the Earle obviously enjoying the taste of foregangsmandens vocabulary words, before snorting spits them out between his teeth with great joy.
’Guy’ sounds dented and unadorned as the two men who stand behind, and when the next big songwriter dies, it is comforting that the Earle may well commit yet another emotional hyldestplade.
There is something to live up to him / her, which shall make ’Steve’.
the Cover of Steve Earle’s 60 minutes long, ‘Guy’, recorded in Nashville and produced by the songwriter himself.
