{"id":1390,"date":"2016-05-20T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:08:49","slug":"anyhow-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/anyhow-i-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyhow, I Love You (Guy Clark)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BKL0zFflXL8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I came to Guy Clark relatively late, after I was already familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/waiting-round-die\/\">Townes Van Zandt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/because-of-the-wind\/\">Joe Ely<\/a>, and through Joe had discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/row-of-dominoes\/\">Butch Hancock<\/a> and Jimmy Dale Gilmore. I&#8217;d probably heard a few of Guy&#8217;s recordings, maybe &#8220;Homegrown Tomatoes&#8221; on the radio, but I was more of a folk and blues (and rock, and jazz) fan than a country fan, and his major label<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1391 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kerrville-LP.jpg?resize=270%2C270\" alt=\"Kerrville LP\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kerrville-LP.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kerrville-LP.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/> records sounded like mainstream country to my uneducated ears. So the first time I recall focusing on him was a solo performance of this song on a two-LP set of Texas songwriters playing at the Kerrville Folk Festivals of the early 1970s, which came out on the Adelphi label in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>I was blown away by the lyric&#8217;s blend of dry humor, sincerity, and tenderness, and the way the words fit so neatly into the curves of the melody, and I learned it immediately, and played it in some fairly rough bars, and it tended to quiet them down, which is the highest praise possible. And, of course, my girlfriend liked it, which, of course, was the point.<\/p>\n<p>More important in the long term, it introduced me to Guy as a songwriter and singer, and I went out and bought <em>Old No. 1<\/em>&#8230; <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Old-No.-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Old No. 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Old-No.-1.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Old-No.-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>and what more need be said? Over the years I&#8217;ve learned at least half the songs on that record, and if they didn&#8217;t all stay in my repertoire that was mostly because I liked Guy&#8217;s versions so much that I preferred to listen to him than to sing them myself. But I ought to get around to &#8220;Rita Ballou&#8221; before this project is over, and &#8220;Desperadoes Waiting for a Train,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/watermelon-dream-guy-clark\/\">Watermelon Dream<\/a>,&#8221; which I almost recorded on my <em>Streetcorner Cowboy <\/em>CD.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote most of these early posts following my own musical evolution, and this one would have come somewhat later in that story, but as I was in the midst of this project he died and I wanted to do something about that. And since I couldn&#8217;t do anything more useful, I posted this song as an expression of my appreciation and respect, and as a suggestion that people to go back and listen to him. He was a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to Guy Clark relatively late, after I was already familiar with Townes Van Zandt and Joe Ely, and through Joe had discovered Butch Hancock and Jimmy Dale Gilmore. 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