Guy Clark - Country Morning Music

Christmas Eve 1975 At Guy and Susanna's Place.
From the Movie "Heartworn Highways".

[@richwalko81]

Such a gift that this was recorded, it’s such a vibe, I almost feel like I’m sitting at the table with them

[@simonsays-me7eq]

put the head phones on its even closer to being at the table

[@liztourdot6168]

Raising my 16 month old on this out in woods in northern WI. Ya still live on boys 😊

[@omgitzrippinomgcrew8599]

Lol we do this every night sit at the table smoke a few fattys drink a lil whiskey pick and sing all night now we ain't nothing compared to them but cant think of a better way to pass the time than sitting round a table with you best buddys/family playing having a good time fuck social media we need more of this instead of facetime and shit

[@jmpolock5211]

Tis Human mon ami

[@ecrisisx]

....thanks for sharing that....on social media lol

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Can I join ya? Oh thats right, we are under social distancing

[@Bluelightcheaphotel]

Yeah I used to do that shit as kids too. Mandolins and guitars and whatnot.

[@100perdido]

Bunch of old hippies, eh?

[@timhensley1297]

Wish I was 17 again, there drinking wine, with these great guys. What a back woods party. I been to a few. Pass that dubie.

[@ReverendSoupbone]

Unashamedly one of my long time idols. Interesting to hear him playing a Gibson. I much prefer the sound of his own built guitars. JJW introduced me to Guy and many others!

[@rockers2rockers616]

Now that's a Christmas Eve to remember

[@connorwilliamson3]

Or, by the looks of it, not remember 😅

[@urbangorilla33]

@@connorwilliamson3 Parts of it might be a little hazy....

[@fergalohearga9594]

Beautiful ... oh, how I remember Guy at this point in his life, and oh! How old it makes me feel to remember this so well and to know he and Susanna aged and are now gone. What a wonderful bunch of musicians these people were.

[@sammyscotch9945]

Guys bio Without getting killed or caught is good

[@JoSmotherman]

I know exactly what you mean. It reminds me of the Sunny Slopes of Long Ago....and our mortality of now.

[@sans8888]

✌️❤️🎶🎶❤️✌️

[@mairianncullen8753]

I love that Susanna Clark's iconic painting of Guy's blue shirt is hanging on the wall.

[@davidgarza1301]

This a firecracker side of Guy that we didn’t always see in his more restrained performances of his later career. Brilliant stuff.

[@NorthwestPewPew]

watched this hundred times since i was 10 im 19 now. im so lucky to even see this. most people wont

[@michaeldelvalle106]

I'm addicted to this video. Wish the camera was rolling more when this group got together.

[@bigtoelittlefinger6133]

Love them nights in Scotland we call it getting smashed drink coke gutars and friends ooishh

[@karakoima]

I was 59 when I first watched this and I agree, lucky to see it. Never too late.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Guy Clark is the only man who I could listen to singing a song about tomatoes. My liking for music is much more to the most brilliant Thin Lizzy & Rory Gallagher Etc. yet Guy Clark is also right at the top of my list of favorite sing/songwriters

[@winstonrocco1981]

Era that will never be repeated

[@joshuatell]

this is my favorite video on youtube, period.

[@hyppia]

Agreed. I think I have watched it 100 times.

[@SketchingSpot]

same

[@FredVI]

I like your taste.

[@TheLarabennett]

Only better one is Stay All Night

[@JWillM]

You know a good tune my friend

[@jray5363]

High as a kite and he still pulled it off. Nice!

[@jeremytaylor6906]

Haha

[@TheOhLeahChronicles]

Honestly I feel like more musicians need to record music like this.. My grandfather was a bluegrass musician and my mom, as a wedding present to my brothers and uncles and grandma, burned copies of all his old recordings onto a CD for us and it was magical! I never got to meet him so it's amazing that I have a piece of him now.. I love this type of recording better than today's music.. It's just REAL and flows so authentically, bring this back!

[@jakehaga9304]

OhLeahLRae awesome story and you're right,don't make music like they used to

[@TheOhLeahChronicles]

@@jakehaga9304 thank you for the kind words! I agree!

[@wesleyutter5947]

This is an awesome thing to hear 🤙🏿🤙🏿

[@Theweeze100]

Great Idea!!!

[@laurenblainebamartistmgt]

Effron White is carrying some of this forward. Nashville guy from Arkansas.

[@sirchsirchtopher4772]

All the old beercans I used to search the woods for them it was my first hobby I was born in 1969 this is really good stuff and I didn't see the pile of cocaine

[@JoSmotherman]

I don't know the details of these recordings, but the circumstance and quality makes these historical gems. I wish I had been there. I think of.....We Were Young Once.....and Drunk. Cudos to all involved.

[@jonpilgrim7820]

I mostly listen to field recordings of water and Large mouth bass, and brian eno. This is so good.

[@Jamoof]

What impressed me, and I'm LOVING this- it is ringing my bell- is that on the last verse, acapella, when Guy slows down so much... then when he starts playing he immediately brings it back up to the speed it was at earlier. Slick. Don't matter what kind of state he's in!!

[@lafreeway]

Man, I have never seen Guy Clark when he was young. That is a great video.

[@TheLarabennett]

He was a babe

[@frankiefranks3893]

More Poignant than Ever..... RIP Guy, Susanna and Townes....

[@kthstefani]

And Steve Young.

[@danielmorris3687]

Thank you for that Kathy Stefani. Everyone seems to forget Steve Young and that man deserves to be remembered. He was as talented as any of the others seated at that table and his body of work proves that. Steve is and always will be one of my favourites. If anyone reading this isn't familiar with Steve do yourself a favor and listen to his albums. They can be found in their entirety on the web. 'The Right Smarkbuster' is a KZbin channel that has them all.

[@kthstefani]

Hi Daniel, couldn't agree more. Steve is my favorite. Don't know if anyone caught the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony, but when they did the short piece on those who had passed, they showed Guy Clark. Daniel, have you ever heard of Guthrie Thomas? He did two solo LP's on Capitol, and then numerous other releases on his own. He also died in 2016.

[@danielmorris3687]

I had never heard of Guthrie Thomas but thank you for bringing him to my attention. I've just listened to 5 or 6 of his songs and it's good, very good. It's a crappy rainy day here so I'm going to spend the afternoon exploring his music. There is a lot of great music out there and I'm always happy when a like-minded person turns me on to something new. Thanks again Kathy

[@kthstefani]

I don't like everything he did, I prefer his earlier stuff, he worked with some of the best on his first two LP's. I hadn't heard of him until around 84. I was in The Gram Parsons Memorial Foundation, and there was a review in there newsletter for one of his LP's. I really couldn't find any in the record stores, but I went to a record show, and picked up his first two official releases. He was friends with Jack Elliott, Ringo Starr, John Hartford and Hoyt Axton to name a few. He also had a small part in Bound For Glory. If you made a comment on one of his songs, he would usually answer. He answered me twice and I actually put together one if his videos. Just the pictures. I don't know if it is still up there. There's a lot of great talent out there, new people and ones that never really had a lot of exposure or a big audience, but talented none the less.

[@aarona764]

And if that is true then getting to witness these guys playing it drunkenly at guy clarks house like 30'years before it was recorded is about the coolest thing ever

[@frankcorrenti5941]

Like the man said, except I can be a countrymusic fan and this is number 2, Guy Clark hasn't writ a bad song ever. RIP.

[@urbangorilla33]

I love that little rant at the end from Guy.

[@linnkrafjack9502]

oh my goodness Guy where have you been all my life! I Love You

[@christopherneary2315]

drinking from the bottle singing from the heart

[@unclebobunclebob]

Love the way Guy gives the song's author seriously funny shit at the end. He's not there, but you can tell they love the guy..

[@russellcorbin2742]

ah, to have Guy Clark and Co cover one of your songs during Heartworn Highways...

[@greenrivernblueswamp3316]

What a good time. Just makes you feel happy from such an honest place.

[@JoeyandTheNoShows]

GreenRiver n' BlueSwamp Amen

[@alabastardmasterson]

To be young, picking and feeling like sooo good

[@suer6103]

Sometimes you can find amazing vids on KZbin!! Be patient, you're hidden gem will surface eventually!

[@rikelswit1263]

Ahh. That's the Guy I remember from when we were working the North Beach bars. He had, uh, presence.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

North Beach Bars...think Susana and Townes lived there at the time. 3 of em in Berkeley

[@danedonovan5787]

Guy Clark is an american poet. So is this guy Brett McDaniel. He isn't as well known. I think he plays out of Alabama. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIjTqKGBmK-tqLs I'd love to see him live one day.

[@heatherhill1964]

These guys look hammered. Good! That's how we do it in Hawaii. Hang out all day at the beach. Eating, drinking, and playing music. Best times ever!

[@getwhatyougive]

[local folklore says that most of them were hitting the needle with the big H. I’d have to agree after seeing those droopy eyelids here and there.]

[@tabathacole]

🦋The vibe in this room feels like home🦋

[@karmalsd5306]

never heard thing like this , just amazing , love it

[@karmalsd5306]

still here very inspirating playing guitar iike this Clarke Earl and Crowell. from fr

[@TheYamahog12]

I learned of Guy Clark from Jerry Jeff Walker albums back in the 70s. I became a big fan of Clark’s music but, unfortunately, I never got to see him play. Love these old videos.

[@uncle-andy-guitar-herbst]

This is so awesome. I miss the '70's. Jam on!!!!

[@JoeyandTheNoShows]

When I watch this video I feel happy because I’m thankful to watch it. But sad as hell I ain’t at that table plucking with them

[@troyjensen2323]

That's my kinda party. Wish I could have been there. I would have been 3 yrs. old then.

[@weirzonium]

thank you for this...guitar pulls of this caliber make my heart smile.

[@annonymost9318]

" churnin out a melody like a moanin memphis city slicker with the blues"? clever as all hell

[@the-lonely-ous1767]

i`m pretty new in americana. Used to listen to "i dug up a diamond" and a few more. It`s like a rabithole. Townes, Clark, Earle... Wow. What a trip.

[@ib9591]

don't stop at the obvious 'uns... check out Takoma Records and anywhere John Fahey and Charley Patton'll lead ya

[@the-lonely-ous1767]

@@ib9591 thanks! Will check them out!

[@guilhermebahia6050]

"Americana" is just a new way to refer to old time Country music that is not the Nashville crap

[@therosarylady]

Drinking that wine, skippin time...amazing I got to see this!

[@wheelmanstan]

I'ma get drunk this weekend, Guy Clark drunk. RIP

[@Humblemumble7]

GOD Damn you are UGLY AS SHIIIIT!!

[@jackyblue67same10]

@@Humblemumble7 lol u a cutie lol

[@danedonovan5787]

Guy Clark is an american poet. So is this guy Brett McDaniel. He isn't as well known. I think he plays out of Alabama. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIjTqKGBmK-tqLs I'd love to see him live one day.

[@TheVirginianRambler]

I aspire to make a comment as golden as this

[@bobertkallahan4392]

Guy Clark drunk is the best kind of drunk

[@jeffscott8323]

These people just enjoying life not worried about wourlds problems. Need that nowadays. They having fun

[@melliecloninger]

Amen

[@MsFlutterby]

I just love Guy Clark. Love this video clip, can't stop coming back to watch it!💓

[@cfhaze3245]

Wow!! Legendary!! They definitely were in the flow state

[@reallyfunnyanimations5949]

You're in the blow guys state

[@oliverermine967]

Mannnn James is the only guy that I can sit and listen to his guitar playing because he's like the best player to hit tha guitar ! I Too wish I could b in that crowd of talent ! 2021 is here and still playing true music wit true ppl

[@TheVirginianRambler]

What is James’s last name? Ive been trying to track him down

[@liveaboardsailor3787]

This is me every morning ❤

[@rushwb]

Very John Hartford-esque which is a good thing!!!

[@wernman]

THAT was a very merry x-mas eve!

[@GuyDude-hk8uy]

When you're absolutely gone, wasted, sloshed, pisshed, but you somehow manage to pull out the perfect solo/harmony. Best feeling in the world haha. Personified by this video 110%. What makes this even better is Guy shits all over the songwriter lol. In the best kind of way. I love when a songwriter basically forgets about a song entirely, and someone falls in love with it.

[@lukewschneider]

True treasure right here,man o man. Only song I've listened to for a week!! There have so much fun

[@johanmarais3417]

These guys just ooze music, unbelievable. Only discovering this in 2021 happiness is - Johan Marais South Africa

[@shawncovell3953]

Lol. At the end. He says. Somewhere in there. That was ducking perfect! Love it! I think I was conceived when that moment happened. The whole sit time. I hate I can’t find the whole home video or whatever. Without interruption

[@thomasdequincey5811]

I love the bit at the end where he's trying to remember the solo, struggles, and then gives up with a "whatever" and a wave of the hand.

[@armadillotoe]

My God, we were all young then.

[@wthjrtx1]

It was a great time. The years ahead were good to them all. Texas!!!

[@gregmf9427]

He was TWEAKED OUT here. The few times I met him he was Always wired.

[@martinguitar22]

Watch Steve Young's face at 4:10 when Guy nearly spills his wine. Haha!

[@cravinbob]

+martinguitar22 Really! You must be known to have had a drink or two in your life to catch that! Excellent.

[@mdogg1604]

I watch this vid every Friday night while drinking Wild Irish Rose out of a SHORT glass...

[@thethorax1]

I've been there on both sides of that situation.

[@lexandlibbsandbailysandjos5890]

martinguitar22 watched this a thousand times or more never noticed till iv read your comment 👍

[@retrorampage9015]

That’s not Steve Earle. Steve is on the other side of the room. Try again.

[@mairianncullen8753]

Guy might be drunk but his ennunciation is amazing. I can make out all the words - which I couldn't when I watched Keith Sykes himself sing it!

[@adamnicholson1273]

Y'all wanna know what the funny thing is? If this Guy Clark, of all people, walked onto the X Factor stage, they would have all laughed at him and/or boo'd him off the stage.. Goes to show what kind of world we live in.

[@markglasser1789]

Yeah well, different folks ya know. It is what it is. Life.

[@mdogg1604]

Well we get it, and we got to pass it on... keep the torch burnin'....

[@triplesevensix291]

X factor aint fit to wipe this mans ass!! But you know that mate. ;)

[@mdogg1604]

Yep. .we live in a "Barnum and Bailey world, just as phony as it can be..."

[@highjenks3d]

you sho right? my heroes are becoming ghosts and i cry

[@herbyparker8284]

Simply brilliant!

[@GirlGeorgeTVshow]

~ Heartworn Highways.~Playlist Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe,. Rodney Crowell, Gamble Rogers, Steve Young, and The Charlie Daniels Band....Documentary film by James Szalapski whose vision captured some of the founders of the Outlaw Country movement in Texas and Tennessee in the last weeks of 1975 and the first weeks of 1976...The film was not released theatrically until 1981....

[@5150show]

Absolutely brilliant

[@jeffscott8323]

And this folks is how to have fun in the south. Hee haw i love it.

[@thedrammed345]

Presence. Sheer brilliance.

[@jeanbailey3550]

Anyone else wish Mike Judge would make a season 3 of Tales from the Tour Bus: Outlaw Country part 2? Guy Clark, Townes, DAC, Kristofferson...

[@sammyscotch9945]

There was one of townes wife

[@SuperPepzz]

this is music we missing 2022

[@keithrice9253]

i only have one LP of guy clark,

[@shirleyjennings5787]

I love this Guy.

[@jamiebyrne458]

i sure wish i had been around that table all them years ago sure looks like a lot of fun and a lot of fine men there ........

[@scottjones2972]

REAL outlaw country. Not that crap on the radio today, city boys wearing black plastic cowboy hats pretending to be hard. Guy is sitting up there, looking down laughing at them all.

[@langstongrandma]

R.I.P. Guy.

[@foryouarewithme]

Steve Young is cool AF.

[@keithrice9253]

he was one of the best.

[@ethanmontgomery7915]

Still can't believe my great great ant taught guy Clark to play no bs

[@walter2990]

If this is Morning County.., Guy's still rolling from the previous night's escapades..., don't ask how I'd know this.., because I'd just smile& give you a lie.

[@jerrycoleman498]

Love these guys!

[@YourMagicMemories]

I've watched the longer version of this a hundred times or more. Sadly, I believe it's just a matter of a few short year before most all song will be written by AI with very little interaction between AI and the supposedly song creator. Long gone are the nights of sitting at a kitchen table or on a living room floor all night while you hear, " Did I play you what I wrote yesterday?" or maybe "Give me that guitar and let me show you how it's done." Gone are the times of watching those first rays of morning peaking through the window beside an empty bottle of Jack and a full ashtray while wishing it wouldn't, wishing for just one more song, just one more story, just one more.... We'll think back on the days where real genus noncommercial writers the likes of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Steve Goodman John Prine and so many others created masterpieces of love lost, love found, lonely highways or a simple home grown tomato and we'll cry because those day will never come again except in our memories. You simply had to be there to really understand the magic of it all.

[@rockerstorockerstorockers7284]

Awesome performance Great Lyric

[@TheVirginianRambler]

Damn, Guy was drunker than Cooter Brown! Loved this video

[@TheVirginianRambler]

I got to add. I love how honest and excited guy sounds when he yells “ALRIGHT!!!”

[@jeffscott8323]

Like to see that movie i was 19 then 64 now

[@traildoggy]

thanks for this.

[@RyneMurray23]

That's quite the party. Looks fun

[@JP-fe8py]

And it takes Stevie Nicks to share great music! Thank you Stevie! Of course I don't know if it's THE Stevie Nicks.

[@TheVirginianRambler]

What are you talking aboutV

[@GurriFito1]

Joder vaya panda! Hasta borrachos hacen música que ni en mil vidas podría igualar!! Geniales!

[@rogerduchesneau4455]

What A MOMENT !!!

[@aarona764]

@darlincommitme wow that is the most helpful answer I've ever gotten from the Internet! Thanks! This film really changed my life man, musically speaking.

[@hansonmkusa]

RIP Guy Clark

[@russellcorbin2742]

Anyone else totally sing this song with the words all mixed up the Guy Clark way, regardless of knowing the correct lyrics to the Keith Sykes version?? 😂

[@jackyblue67same10]

I do believe Guy is drunk lol.

[@cravinbob]

+Jackyblue67 Same Hey you could have a career as a cop! ; )

[@jackyblue67same10]

No no no thank you Cravinbob u can have that job not for me buddy lol! ;) Have a good 1 peace ;)

[@keithtravers305]

It looks a lot like a heroin face to me,

[@jayree379]

higher than a kite headed downhill

[@kevindrago2164]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[@bradleykey6676]

I can't be the only one that heard that at about 5 sec

[@ZacharyAllen-qm5uo]

Guy Clark seems like he was made a country music protege after he got kicked by a mule

[@jeffscott8323]

When people could get high or drunk and didnt hurt no one good times

[@NorthwestPewPew]

no joke, lets jam i dont care what you do am i right?

[@yemsen555]

Nice howling there. I'm sure the ladies wouldn't mind.

[@Nicole-Antonia-JD]

Guy's so handsome especially when he's singin/playin 'n' he's crunk

[@joshuabixler4738]

Like a Memphis city slicker with the blues. Who wants to talk about some college shit?

[@BigBadBosco]

Friend: Do you think Guy is drunk or high as fuck in this clip? Me: Yes

[@nilradem]

This is the correct answer

[@shanephillips1730]

I've been alot of both, and he is drunk.

[@nilradem]

@@shanephillips1730 High as well. In other shots from this scene he's clearly smoking pot and there are lines of coke on the table.

[@steveames5797]

I'm so excited to have stumbled across this video. That room is filled with musicians that I love (not all of them shown in this vid). I wonder where Townes was? Thanks for posting!!

[@chrisdher65]

Good chance that Townes is under the table playing a little percussion every now and again

[@mairianncullen8753]

It is from the film (available on DVD ) called Heartworn Highways. A treasure of a film, with 'extras' that are even better than the film!

[@danedonovan5787]

Guy Clark is an american poet. So is this guy Brett McDaniel. He isn't as well known. I think he plays out of Alabama. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIjTqKGBmK-tqLs I'd love to see him live one day.

[@TheVirginianRambler]

During this year (1974) townes was living in texas! Thats where he was when they recorded his part for the film. This was in east nashville in Guys basement

[@rsz90182]

I remember someone had a CD of them stamped on another album by mistake.