Passed today. No statement yet from Guy. She always seemed like a fantastic lady

I just started reading To Live is to Fly and it's going on about her and Townes' special relationship. She sounded cool as hell. RIP.

RIP. Anyone who could deal with Guy and that crowd for so long was made of special stuff.

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i think highlife is made of special stuff.

real special.

Her name is actually spelled "Susanna". For those unfamiliar with her she painted the cover of Emmylou's A Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town album. She also wrote "Come From the Heart" which appears on Guy's Old Friends record from 1988. Unfortunately some of the lyrics from that song (as well as the song itself) were often attributed to other artists when it was actually Susanna that wrote them.

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balv, everyone here knows I'm made of cigarettes, alcohol, and seething hate.

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Not true. I thought you were made of gourmet peanuts and sunshine.

sorry about the misspell....I noticed it right away after I posted

Fuck this place for not allowing youtube videos to be posted anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seONAflxevI

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Posted on June 28, 2012 by Peter Cooper

Susanna Clark, the former art teacher who went on to pen songs recorded by Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Miranda Lambert, Rosanne Cash, Jerry Jeff Walker, husband Guy Clark and many more, died Wednesday, June 27 in Nashville. She was 73, and had been in poor health in recent years.

Mrs. Clark was a vital figure in Nashville’s close-knit singer-songwriter community beginning in the early 1970s. She was a close friend and inspiration to Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell and others, and her lyrics, her music and her visual art were enjoyed by millions: Her evocative paintings graced the covers of Willie Nelson’s Stardust, Emmylou Harris’ Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Guy Clark’s Old No. 1, Nanci Griffith’s Dust Bowl Symphony and other acclaimed albums.

Mrs. Clark was instrumental in convincing her husband to quit his work at a Houston television station and to focus on songwriting. The couple moved to Nashville together in 1971, and Guy Clark would go on to become a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

“I just asked him what he wanted to do, and he said, ‘Music,’” she once told a Journal of Country Music reporter. “I said, ‘Well, let’s do it.’ And he said, ‘That’s the first time a woman has ever asked me to quit a job.’”

The Clarks’ household was a gathering place, a hive of activity for songwriters in the mid 1970s. Mrs. Clark was the first of those writers to pen a hit, and she did it with the first song she ever wrote, “I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose.”

“Even with Guy alone, I mean….. It’s very hard to write songs in the presence of someone I consider one of the two best songwriters in the world, the other being Townes,” she told The Tennessean in 2001. “But I’d taken some guitar lessons and I’d always written poetry, and, as I watched these people come through our house and play, I began to combine those talents.”

“I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose” was a Top 20 country hit for singer Dottsy in 1975, the same year Mrs. Clark was name-checked in her husband’s now-classic recording, “L.A. Freeway.” In 1978, she penned (with Carlene Carter) the lead track of Harris’ Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, and she painted the album cover: A moon-sliver hanging above a tiny town that could well have been Mrs. Clark’s birthplace of Atlanta, Texas.

“That’s the 10 cent town,” she told The Tennessean. “Since I wrote ‘Easy From Now On’ and she chose a line out of the song to use for the album cover, I got to paint my own song.’”

Mrs. Clark went on to co-wrote (with Richard Leigh) Kathy Mattea’s 1989 country chart-topper, “Come From The Heart.” It was a song about purpose, artistry and soul.

“You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,” began the chorus. “Love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching/ It’s gotta come from the heart if you want it to work."

I did not know the Willie Nelson Stardust album cover was one of hers. She will be missed

Guy and Susanna seemed like best friends. Seeing them interviewed in Heartworn Highways and other things...
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“You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,” began the chorus. “Love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching/ It’s gotta come from the heart if you want it to work."

I sure hope that was her own idea, rather than something that was commonplace before she put it to song. Does anybody know?

I've heard it re-quoted by so many sappy self-help types, that I hope its truly lovely sentiment was hers alone. That would redeem it.

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I like her paintings.
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I sure hope that was her own idea, rather than something that was commonplace before she put it to song. Does anybody know?

I've heard it re-quoted by so many sappy self-help types, that I hope its truly lovely sentiment was hers alone. That would redeem it.

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I'd be interested to know as well. I've heard it quoted by and attributed to lots of other people, none of whom have a clue as to who Susanna (or Guy) Clark are.

Virgil, you have heard the exact quote or a variation?

I'm pretty certain she can get some credit for it.

I doubt she invented any of the words. I would imagine dance like nobody's watching predates her.


http://greatday.com/motivate/951208.html

aww RIP