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Guy Clark is the eponymous third studio album by the Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1978.[4] It was his first on the Warner Bros. label.[5]

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Guy Clark
Studio album by Guy Clark
Released	1978
Genre	Country
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Guy Clark
Guy Clark chronology
Texas Cookin' (1976) Guy Clark (1978) The South Coast of Texas (1981)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide	[2]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Seventies Music	[3]

Critical reception

Record Collector wrote: "More experimental than the straight country of its predecessors, on which cellos and harpsichords dovetailed with more traditional Nashville instrumentation, Clark’s sly wit is in abundance on 'Comfort And Crazy' and 'Shade Of All Greens.'"[6]

Track listing

All songs written by Guy Clark except as noted.

1. "Fool on the Roof"
2. "Fools for Each Other"
3. "Shade of All Greens"
4. "Voilà, An American Dream" (Rodney Crowell)
5. "One Paper Kid" (Walter Cowart)
6. "In the Jailhouse Now" (Jimmie Rodgers)
7. "Comfort and Crazy"
8. "Don't You Take It Too Bad" (Townes Van Zandt)
9. "Houston Kid"
10. "Fool on the Roof Blues"

Personnel

• Guy Clark – vocals, guitar
• Bee Spears – bass guitar
• Mickey Raphael – harmonica
• Lea Jane Berinati – keyboards, background vocals
• David Briggs – keyboards, background vocals
• Buck White – mandolin
• Don Brooks – harmonica
• Philip Donnelly – guitar
• Jack Hicks – banjo
• Jerry Kroon – drums
• Albert Lee – guitar
• John Goldthwaite – guitar
• Don Everly – background vocals
• Gordon Payne – background vocals
• Sharon Hicks – background vocals
• Rodney Crowell – background vocals
• Frank Davis – background vocals
• Cheryl White – background vocals
• Byron Bach – cello

Singles

"Fools for Each Other" reached No. 96 in the Billboard country singles chart.^{[citation needed]}

References

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