Running partner to Townes Van Zandt, mentor to Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell, provider of songs for Emmylou Harris and Johnny Cash (solo and with the Highwaymen) - Texas singersongwriter Guy Clark is a truly great American singer-songwriter, and part of the bedrock upon which country music in all its varieties has been built over the last 40 years. Songs And Stories is a new live album released to celebrate his 70th birthday, featuring songs like 'The Randall Knife', 'Homegrown Tomatoes', 'The Cape', 'L.A. Freeway', 'Dublin Blues' and a version of Van Zandt's 'If I Needed You'. Songs And Stories is is Guy's first live album since 1997's best-selling Keepers, and follows on from his recent Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Association, and Grammy nominations for his last two studio albums with Dualtone, Somedays The Song Writes You and Workbench Songs.