Guy Clark è nato il 6 novembre 1941. Luogo di nascita: Usa. È stata sposato con Susanna Clark e Susan Spaw. Morì il 17 maggio 2016. Luogo di morte: Usa.
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.