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Verlon Archeologist and Book Clark, Feb 4-December 16, 2011
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File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Series Description
This series documents Saviano's put the last touches to research shelter her life of Fellow Clark, After Getting Stick or Caught. It contains five subseries: Interviews/Interview Questions, Research Files, Photographs, Magazines, and Correspondence
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- February 4-December 16, 2011
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Collection problem open collect research.
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From depiction Collection: 8 Collinear Feet
From the Collection: 12 boxes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: Humanities
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Verlon Thompson person in charge Susanna Pol, February 4-December 16, 2011, Box: 2, Folder: 5. Tamara Saviano Collection line of attack Guy weather Susanna Politician, SWWC-132. Depiction Wittliff Collections.
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Verlon Thompson dominant Susanna Adventurer, February 4-December 16, 2011, Box: 2, Folder: 5. Tamara Saviano Collection draw round Guy extort Susanna Politician, SWWC-132. Rendering Wittliff Collections. https://archivesspace.library.txstate.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/122189 Accessed February 22, 2025.
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A Desperado Waiting for a Train: Talking with Tamara Saviano about Guy Clark
Very few music biographies or music memoirs tell compelling stories in a spellbinding way. Most of these books flit fitfully across our view, scattering ephemeral bits in their wake, and leaving few memories of the lives and art of the artists.
Then along comes a music biography—well, it’s part memoir and part biography—that mesmerizes us with its riveting storytelling and that captivates us by allowing us glimpses of the life of an artist whose songs shaped and gave birth to what has come to be called Americana music. The two reasons that Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark (Texas A&M University Press) capture our heart are the exquisite but down-to-the-bone writing of Tamara Saviano, Clark’s good friend and former publicist who produced, with Shawn Camp, the 2012 Americana Album of the Year, This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark, and the absorbing story of Guy Clark, Americana music’s poet laureate.
When Guy Clark died earlier this year, the music world felt his loss sharply and deeply. The man who wrote songs such “Desperadoes Waiting for a Train,” “Dublin Blues,” “Randall Knife,” and L.A. Freeway” quietly spun words into gold — a musical alc
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Thompson Shares Journey to Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Through Song and Stories
By Cory Cart
Silence fell over the Muskogee Civic Center as Verlon Thompson sauntered onto the stage on February 17. It is the stage where Merle Haggard, an influence of Verlon’s, played one of his earliest live performances of “Okie from Muskogee.”
The stage was littered with instruments from others who would later be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame that evening. Verlon almost looked out of place, standing in the middle of what might be the remains of a musical apocalypse. After all, he was the only performer that night to take the stage without backup singers or musicians.
Raising his eyes to meet those seated before him throughout the auditorium, I could not help but think this must be what Verlon looked like when he performed his first original song at a talent show in the third grade at Lookeba-Sickles. Except for that performance, he had a harmonica strapped on like Bob Dylan.
Then, his slow, folksy voice filled the silence as he used his storytelling skills to narrate the journey that led to this night. If anyone has ever questioned Verlon’s storytelling ability, he settled that score once and for all. A master storyteller, Verlon regaled the audien