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Guy Clark – Old No. 1 (VG+/VG+) – LP, US 1975
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Old No. 1 is an LP by Guy Clark from 1975 released on the RCA, RCA Victor label.
About this album
Old No. 1 is Guy Clark’s landmark debut, and one of the great singer-songwriter albums of the 1970s. Released in 1975, it announced Clark as a master storyteller with a gift for plainspoken detail, dry humour and hard-won emotional depth. Songs such as L.A. Freeway, Desperados Waiting For The Train and Rita Ballou became enduring standards because they sound conversational yet carry the weight of lived experience. Rooted in country and folk but free of Nashville polish, the album helped set the tone for outlaw-era writing, influencing generations of artists who prized character, place and precision over sentimentality.
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A1 Rita Ballou
A2 L.A. Freeway
A3 She Ain'T Goin' Nowhere
A4 A Nickel For The Fiddler
A5 That Old Time Feeling
B1 Texas-1947
B2 Desperados Waiting For The Train
B3 Like A Coat From The Cold
B4 Instant Coffee Blues
B5 Let Him Roll