She would sit on the floor for her grandparents' living room concerts, watching them play piano, organ, accordion and marimba. 'He was listening to stuff that wasn't necessarily on the radio. 'That was probably the biggest gift I got from him,' Saviano said. But it was from him that she developed a deep appreciation of folk and country music. I look at pictures of it a lot to bring myself there.'Īs she chronicled in her 2014 memoir 'The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, a Daughter and the Healing Power of Music,' Saviano had a volatile relationship with her abusive stepfather. 'I've been gone from Wisconsin since 1995, but I still consider Wisconsin home,' she said. Saviano suggests her own life experiences in Wisconsin made that possible. … And I wanted to leave these things behind that would outlive me.' 'I yearn for Lake Michigan' 'I think he will go down in history as one of America's greatest songwriters. 'I think 100 years from now people are going to look at Guy Clark the way we look at Shakespeare,' Saviano said. Tickets and information can be found at. Six virtual screenings are scheduled from March 23 to April 25, with post-film Q&As with Clark's peers and admirers, including Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle and Sarah Jarosz. In 2008, she started an eight-year journey to write the biography 'Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark.' It came out in October 2016 - five months after Clark died at 74, and four years after Saviano produced the Grammy-nominated double album 'This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark' with Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Emmylou Harris and others.Īnd now Saviano is finally emerging from the 'Guy Clark rabbit hole' with an exceptional send-off: the engrossing new documentary 'Without Getting Killed or Caught.'Ĭo-directed with her husband Paul Whitfield, video engineer for Bruce Springsteen's tours, and based on her own book and the diaries of Clark's late wife Susanna, the film is getting its world premiere at the virtual South by Southwest festival Thursday. Then she became Clark's publicist in the early to mid-2000s.

She first met the songwriting great in 1998 for a story she wrote for Country Music magazine. 'I was reading the liner notes that were printed on the white sleeve, and I was so taken in by the lyrics,' Saviano said of that Clark album, during a Zoom interview from her Nashville home. 'I was always a bookworm, and the first thing that struck me was that (the songs) sounded like stories.'įor the past two decades, Saviano has been telling Clark's story.

It was a life-changing first listen that led to a lifelong devotion to folk music. Tamara Saviano was 14 when her stepfather's friend brought Guy Clark's first album 'Old No. Watch Video: Guy Clark was the keystone for Nashville songwriters

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