{"id":707,"date":"2013-12-20T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2013-12-19T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T14:11:57","slug":"song-of-the-week-hank-williams-said-it-best-by-guy-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: “Hank Williams Said It Best” by Guy Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n

This is “Hank Williams Said It Best” by Guy Clark:<\/p>\n

Guy Clark — “Hank Williams Said It Best”<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Friday I broadcast an hour-long show on WRCU-FM Hamilton, New York<\/a>. One of the songs I played was “Sometimes the Grass Is Really Greener” by the excellent Robbie Fulks<\/a>, from his new album, Gone Away Backward<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>While it was playing, my friend got in touch to point out that a line from that song, “One man’s dirt is another man’s gold,” is an allusion to\/quotation of “Hank Williams Said It Best” by Guy Clark. Here’s a decent overview of Clark’s work, from The All Music Guide<\/a>. One of the things I like about music (and literature, for that matter) is the conversations that it creates.\u00a0 Here, Robbie Fulks creates a conversation between himself and Guy Clark, who created a conversation between himself and Hank Williams; These conversations spawned another, between Bob and me, and between both of us and these songs, and of course, now including you as well.<\/p>\n

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