'Guy Clark's songs were like Peckinpah movies – that powerful'

Friends and peers pay tribute to the late country star whose songs, which brought a literary gravitas to the genre, were covered by the best in the businessGuy Clark, a songwriter who elevated American popular song by infusing it with literary depth, died in Nashville on Tuesday after suffering from cancer. He was 74.Clark influenced not just younger generations for songs that had the storytelling gravity of a serious novelist, but he also raised the artistic stakes for his peers. A displaced Te...

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