''Cold Dog Soup'' is an album by the American singer-songwriter
Guy Clark
Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter and luthier. He released more than 20 albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffet ...
, released in 1999.
Production
The album was recorded in Nashville, with Clark's touring musicians;
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including ...
added vocal overdubs.
Critical reception
AllMusic
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wrote that "the tragedy 'Water Under the Bridge' feels a lot like the folk-blues of Bob Dylan's 'Ballad of Hollis Brown', and in its own way is just as harrowing, with the mandolin fills floating around the guitar lines."
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No Depression'' thought that "the title track paints a scene at a Los Angeles bar where Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Tom Waits played gigs in the late ’60s—a delicately surreal portrait of literary ferment a la 1920s Paris or Secessionist Vienna set in Mission Beach." The ''
Chicago Tribune
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'' stated that "the album features finely detailed story songs such as 'Sis Draper', about an Arkansas fiddler, and 'Red River', which details the Clarks' ancestors move from Kentucky to West Texas."
Track listing
# "Cold Dog Soup" (Guy Clark, Mark Sanders) – 3:32
# "Fort Worth Blues" (
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain Earle (; born January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author, and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. Initially working in the country music g ...
) – 4:31
# "Sis Draper" (Shawn Camp, Clark) – 3:41
# "Ain't No Trouble to Me" (Clark, Jon Stewart) – 2:58
# "Water Under the Bridge" (Clark) – 3:10
# "Forever, for Always, for Certain" (
Richard Dobson
Richard James Joseph Dobson II (March 19, 1942 – December 16, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and author. Dobson was part of the outlaw country movement and spent time in the 1970s with Townes Van Zandt, Mickey White, Rex "Wrecks" B ...
) – 3:14
# "Men Will Be Boys" (Clark,
) – 3:27
# "Indian Head Penny" (Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 3:29
# "Bunkhouse Blues" (Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 3:05
# "Red River" (Clark) – 3:02
# "Die Tryin'" (Clark, Jon Stewart) – 2:46
# "Be Gone Forever" (
Anna McGarrigle
Anna McGarrigle, CM (born December 4, 1944) is a Canadian folk music singer and songwriter who recorded and performed with her sister, Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010.
Early life
Anna McGarrigle studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréa ...
, Keith Sykes) – 3:11
Personnel
*Guy Clark – vocals, guitar
*
Shawn Camp – guitar, fiddle, harmony vocals
*
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including ...
– harmony vocals
*
Darrell Scott
James Darrell Scott, known as Darrell Scott (born August 6, 1959), is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The son of musician Wayne Scott, he moved as a child to East Gary, Indiana (known today as Lake Station, Indiana). ...
– guitar, mandolin, accordion, autoharp, bass, harmony vocals, mandocello
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– guitar, banjo, harmonica, harmony vocals
Production notes
*Verlon Thompson – producer
*Darrell Scott - producer
*J.D. Andrew – mixing
*Chris Latham – producer, engineer, mixing
*Randy LeRoy – mastering
*Senor McGuire – photography
*Sue Meyer – design
References
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1999 albums
Guy Clark albums
Sugar Hill Records albums