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The Dark

Guy Clark

Album · 2002 · Sugar Hill Records

The Dark is Guy Clark’s 2002 album for Sugar Hill Records (SUG-CD-1070). Clark produced it with Verlon Thompson, Darrell Scott and the engineer Chris Latham, who recorded and mixed it. Clark sings and plays guitar. Thompson plays guitar, harmonica, djembe and percussion and sings, and Scott plays baritone guitar, dobro, mandolin, banjo, mandocello, accordion, marimbula and bass.

Eleven of the twelve songs are credited to Clark with co-writers: Buddy Mondlock on “Mud” and the title song, Rich Alves on “Arizona Star,” Shawn Camp on “Magnolia Wind” and “Soldier’s Joy, 1864,” and Terry Allen on “Queenie’s Song,” among others. The remaining song is Townes Van Zandt’s “Rex’s Blues.” Camp plays fiddle on “Magnolia Wind” and, with Tim O’Brien, on “Soldier’s Joy, 1864,” and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings sing harmony on “Arizona Star.” The album reached number 46 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Mud 3:45
  2. 2 Arizona Star 3:25
  3. 3 Magnolia Wind 3:49
  4. 4 Soldier’s Joy, 1864 Source Recording Guy Clark, Shawn Camp · key B · 85 bpm 3:38
  5. 5 Dancin' Days 3:27
  6. 6 Homeless 4:24
  7. 7 Off The Map 3:44
  8. 8 Bag Of Bones 3:28
  9. 9 She Loves To Ride Horses 3:33
  10. 10 Rex's Blues 3:11
  11. 11 Queenie's Song 2:38
  12. 12 The Dark 3:49

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