Consumer Guide Album

Guy Clark: Greatest Hits [RCA Victor, 1983]
My, here's a useful item--replaces three whole tracks from the just-this-minute-deleted Old No. 1, two of them bittersweet love-and-sex songs, with three newer Texas-mythos numbers. Very conceptual, but not exactly an improvement, and I even like two of the new ones: "Broken Hearted People," which is also a bittersweet love-and-sex song, and "Texas Cookin'." I also miss the bittersweet love-and-sex song "Instant Coffee Blues" very much. Maybe Texas-mythos types understand food better than outlaws--the man has written well about home-grown tomatoes. B+