Old No. 1 At 50: A History of Guy Clark's First Album - Paperback
Old No. 1 At 50: A History of Guy Clark's First Album - Paperback
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by Peter Blackstock (Author)There is an interesting history behind Old No. 1, legendary songwriter Guy Clark's debut album. As the 50th anniversary of Old No. 1 approached, we thought it appropriate to dig a little deeper into the origins of this significant work and to celebrate it. Fifty years on, music lovers are still discovering Guy's body of work, starting with this first extraordinary collection of songs. We asked Natalie Weiner to sift through the credits and interview anyone and everyone who was there for the making of the album. Then we asked our friend Peter Blackstock, journalist and co-founder of No Depression magazine, to take Natalie's interviews, do his own research, and use his creative instincts and writing chops to pull together the history of Old No. 1 and write this book. You hold in your hands, the ultimate history of Old No. 1, Guy Clark's extraordinary first album. About the Author: Peter Blackstock co-founded No Depression magazine with Grant Alden in 1995 and was its co-editor through 2008. From 2014 to 2022, he was a staff writer covering music in Austin, Texas, for the daily Austin American-Statesman, where he began his career as a copy editor and columnist from 1982 to 1991. He also worked at the daily Seattle Post-Intelligencer in Seattle, Washington, as a copy editor and music columnist from 1992 to 2000, and as an associate editor at Independent Weekly in Durham, North Carolina, from 2010 to 2013. He served as archivist for the South by Southwest Music Conference from 1989 to 1997 and is co-author of SXSW Scrapbook, (Essex Press, 2011) an informal history of the event's first 25 years. He is co-editor of the anthologies No Depression: An Introduction to Alternative Country (Dowling Press, 1998) and The Best of No Depression (University of Texas Press, 2005). He co-produced the tribute album Frisco Mabel Joy Revisted: For Mickey Newbury (Appleseed/Glitterhouse, 2000). He now lives in San Diego, California, with his wife Lisa and their two cats. 102 pages
