Entertainment – Singer Guy Clark dies at 74

Singer-songwriter Guy Clark died Tuesday in Nashville at age 74 after a long illness, according to his publicist. Clark was well known in the Nashville music community, and wrote songs for other artists as well as recording albums for almost 40 years. Numerous popular artists, including Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and many others, recorded Clark’s songs over the course of his career. “It’s what I enjoy,” he once said, speaking of songwriting. “It gets harder, all the time. It doesn’t fall out of the sky, you know. But I have joy doing the work, I enjoy the creative process. I write and build guitars in the same space, and I find that one is right brain and one is left brain, and they kind of feed off of one another. But, I don’t know. It’s just a way to while away the time until you die.”