Guy Clark - Live From Austin, TX [2LP Red]

Guy Clark's Live From Austin, TX album captures the songwriting giant where he belonged: front and center, guitar in hand, distilling harsh truths and subtle humor with effortless grace. Recorded in 1989, this performance feels less like a concert and more like an evening on a porch with one of America's greatest storytellers.

By this point in his career, Clark had already become an iconic figure in Texas songwriting, influencing generations of artists with his simple poetry and strikingly acute details. Backed primarily by acoustic arrangements and his unmistakably weathered vocals, the show focuses on the essentials: songs, stories and the kind of lived wisdom that one can't fake.

“Desperados Waiting For A Train” is performed with all the bittersweet humanity that made it a country-folk standard, while “Texas 1947” moves like a freight train through memory and myth. “Homegrown Tomatoes” adds a welcome dose of wit and warmth, balancing reflective moments with Clark’s signature dry charm. Each performance feels relaxed yet deeply intentional – the mark of a master completely at ease in his art.

This 2LP edition from New West Records is remastered and pressed on striking "Homegrown Tomato" red vinyl, giving the legendary Austin City Limits performance an added collector-worthy shine. This is timeless Texas songwriting at its most honest, humble, and quietly devastating.