Raven [Australia]
2007
Hindsight 20-20 Anthology 1975-95
About This Album
If Guy Clark isn't the greatest of all Texas singer/songwriters (that honor would doubtless belong to Clark's friend Townes Van Zandt), he typifies the style as well as anyone you could name, and the subtle literacy and novelist's detail that mark his best work typify what made the Texas "outlaw" scene important without succumbing to its excesses. Clark also knows enough to make records when he's good and ready, and no sooner, and for someone who's been recording since 1975 he's produced a relatively small body of work, eleven studio albums in 32 years, but Clark's lack of enthusiasm for the conventional wisdom of the music business may well be one of the reasons his albums have been so consistently strong. Hindsight 21-20: Anthology 1975-1995 is the first multi-label anthology that's attempted to present a concise overview of Clark's career, though significantly it covers his first two decades of record-making before he left the major labels for the more comfortable pace of independent record making. Given that Clark has had little in the way of hits, this sampling from seven albums leans more towards great songs that were well-served in the studio rather than familiar tunes, though his best-known compositions do make the cut, including "L.
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