Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues"

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A while back, there was a thread about this album which contains the song, "The Randall Knife". I recently bought a copy of the album and am enjoying it quite a lot. Clark reminds me a lot of Kris Kristofferson at his prime and his song, more a poem, really, done in Talking Blues style, "The Randall Knife" is particularly good. One verse goes:
"If you've ever held a Randall Knife
Then you know my father well
If a better blade was ever made
It was probably forged in hell"

That is certainly true of the old Randall that I bought in 1961. That knife has been used and abused as only an 18 year old can and has always come back for more.

I recommend this album highly.
 
Big Guy Clark fan here, have been so for years. I always wondered about his mom, a lady savvy enough to buy her old man a Randall to go to war with.

I had a Model 1 Fighting Knife I ordered in 1965, and it got delivered after I got out of the army in 67. Wonderful piece of steel; I regret selling it to this day.
 
Mwerner, did you ever listen to Kris Kristofferson? I have a number of his albums from the '70s on vinyl. I've been thinking of transferring them to tape casettes, but I believe that I will more likely order some in cds. I really like his work. And two lines from his 1970 song, "The Pilgrim-Chapter 33" are how I often feel about myself:
"He's a walking contradiction
Partly truth and partly fiction"
 
Guy Clark is a wonderful Texas singer/songwriter.
His songs have always moved me. The album before Dublin Blues, Boats to Build is also a jewel.

wabi
 
Kristofferson has written some of the best single lines in all of songwriting IMHO.

Interesting fellow, Rhodes scholar turned C&W songwriter and occasional actor.

Here's a few more in the same vein you might enjoy:

Robert Earl Keen
James McMurtry
Tom Russell
Townes VanZandt
Dave Alvin
 
I can't listen to "The Randall Knife" without blubbering like an idiot. That and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (which in my opinion isn't even that great of a song). :o
 
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