Guy Clark est né le 6 novembre 1941 au Texas, États-Unis. Il était marié à Susanna Clark et Susan Spaw. Il est mort le 17 mai 2016 dans le Tennessee, États-Unis.
In the late 1960s, he went to Houston, where he played folk music on a club circuit that included contemporaries Van Zandt and Eric Taylor as well as blues legends Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. He spent time in San Francisco and Los Angeles which inspired his songs "Madonna w/ Child ca. 1969" and "L.A. Freeway," before moving to Nashville in 1971.