TAMARA SAVIANO: He and his wife, Susanna, were really ringleaders in the genre we now call Americana. Tamara Saviano directed a new documentary about Guy and Susanna called "Without Getting Killed Or Caught." She worked as Guy's manager and biographer, and she knew them both well. You couldn't always find them, but once you heard them, you'd never forget them. KING: Guy, his wife, Susanna Clark, and a small group of friends committed themselves to these kinds of songs. Going to get me some dirt road back street. GUY CLARK: (Singing) Throw out them LA papers and that moldy box of vanilla wafers. While other singers were writing radio-friendly hits, he was writing poetry. Clark led a quiet revolution on the margins of country music, starting in the '70s. The singer-songwriter Guy Clark once talked about being cursed with artistic integrity.
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