Tamara Saviano Collection of Guy and Susanna Clark

Tamara Saviano was born and raised in Wisconsin but now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she has worked as a publicist, music journalist, record and television producer, and artist manager. She has served as president and board member of the Americana Music Association. She also was founder and president of American Roots Publishing, through which she produced the Grammy-award winning CD, Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster, as well as the critically-acclaimed album, The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson. Saviano is currently a writer, producer and director at Slow Uvalde Films, the production company for Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark. Saviano began donating her music archive to the Wittliff Collections in 2007 through the efforts of Dr. Gary Hartman and the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University.

Guy Clark was a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was born November 6, 1941, in Monahans, Texas. Over the course of his career, Guy Clark released more than twenty albums. Many notable artists such as Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffet, and Rodney Crowell recorded his songs. His last album, My Favorite Picture of You, won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. Guy Clark passed away on May 17, 2016.

Susanna Clark was a songwriter and painter. She was born March 11, 1939 in Atlanta, Texas. In 1969, she met Guy Clark, and the two wed in 1972. Clark wrote “I’ll be Your San Antone Rose,” among many others. Artists such as Rosanne Cash, Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allen Coe, and Emmylou Harris recorded her songs. Some of her paintings have been used as cover art for albums by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and her husband, Guy Clark. Susanna Clark passed away on June 27, 2012.