Check his website out, get the CD, check out the hellfire guitar, the incredible vocal range..it's retro & modern at the same time. What a fab breath of fresh air in and Rn'B market saturated by shit!

Enjoy: http://www.garyclarkjr.com/

This guy should be fuckin' huge.

Gary is a badass. Buddy Guy would be proud.

funkyhead said:

Check his website out, get the CD, check out the hellfire guitar, the incredible vocal range..it's retro & modern at the same time. What a fab breath of fresh air in and Rn'B market saturated by shit!

Enjoy: http://www.garyclarkjr.com/

This guy should be fuckin' huge.

He is badass but of course he is not getting the promotion he deserves.

there's a track towards the end [sorry can't recall the name] that is a slow jam that is pure Prince with that Lovesexy guitar sound all over it..a quite incredible track. Also check out 'numb' if you wnat some hip shakin' groove!

BBC Review

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He's a talented fellow but the few times i have seen what he does-

I was left feeling unimpressed & sad that we live in a world where an

artist of his caliber can be mentioned in the same breath as Jimi Hendrix or Prince.

I sampled a few tracks some months ago and wasn't moved. Which of course doesn't mean he's not a great artist. Just means I can't co-sign the OP.

funkyhead said:

there's a track towards the end [sorry can't recall the name] that is a slow jam that is pure Prince with that Lovesexy guitar sound all over it..a quite incredible track. Also check out 'numb' if you wnat some hip shakin' groove!

"You Saved Me" ?, yeah that track has some purple-ness about it

Since most complain about the dearth of good music that is available, there is stuff out therer if you look for and support it. I love this album, it was one of the best of 2012 for me.

UncleGrandpa said:

Since most complain about the dearth of good music that is available, there is stuff out therer if you look for and support it. I love this album, it was one of the best of 2012 for me.

it really is great, bought it on a whim based on the reviews on the cover!

he's not bad

but a tad overhyped because he is black and plays guitar good as shit

the album is kinda strange though, helps if you skip the R&B tracks which are abysmal

he plays festivals too and probably has become this generation's Hendrix to millions of hipsters

namepeace said:

I sampled a few tracks some months ago and wasn't moved. Which of course doesn't mean he's not a great artist. Just means I can't co-sign the OP.

Yep.

Marrk said:

BBC Review

A good introduction, albeit a wandering one.

Marcus J. Moore 2013-02-12

The heart of Gary Clark, Jr. isn’t tough to find. At his core, the Texas-born guitarist continues the spirit of Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Hazel: his piercing chords can tell a story without words on top of them.

Clearly, Clark appreciates the past, since much of Blak and Blu is rooted in some sort of musical yesteryear. Please Come Home, for instance, is a wistful melody evoking 1960s soul.

On Third Stone from the Sun/If You Love Me Like You Say, Clark modernises the Jimi and Albert Collins classics with clean percussion and faint record scratches. The result properly showcases Clark’s dexterity as a vocalist and instrumentalist.

His focus is tougher to grasp, though. While Blak and Blu is ambitious, it lacks a coherent theme. There’s nothing wrong with honouring influences, but his approach wanders a bit too much.

He signals pysch-rock (Numb), nods to modern RnB (Things are Changin’), and concludes with distilled bayou blues (Next Door Neighbor Blues). Elsewhere, Clark tinkers with brassy arrangements on Ain’t Messin’ ‘Round and country on Travis County.

Overall, this feels more like a fragmented collection of songs than a calculated set. It’s easy to pick favourite tracks, and that’s a good thing. But the album as a whole isn’t so compelling. In Clark’s quest to capture multiple sounds, his direction is unclear.

That’s not to knock his artistry: Blak and Blu brightens dramatically when Clark shreds his guitar. On When My Train Pulls In, for instance, he sings despondently about finding new beginnings; and the song’s three-minute guitar solo accentuates the despair.

Numb is edgy throughout: atop methodical drums, Clark’s strums — grittier than usual — are distorted just enough to solidify a hazy feel. He resonates when the sounds are grungy; unfortunately though, those moments are too few.

What remains is an adequate compilation of nostalgic sounds, largely void of Clark’s unique voice. Greater consistency would have worked wonders.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sounds good and eclectic to me. I'll be checking him out. i like 'unfocused', means a bit of variety.

I dug up this thread because I heard Things are Changin on some show I was watching and downloaded it. I always download a few diffenrent songs off a new album just to see if I might be into the artist. Never heard of this dude before btw.. So I'm cooking and I play Things are Changin, after that comes this song Numb, I'm like wtf is that?? That was amazing!! I really dig this album..It's all over the place and a lot of the songs remind me of something I heard before, but I like it. Oh man and that guitar!

I'm obsessed with this song!!

funkyhead said:

there's a track towards the end [sorry can't recall the name] that is a slow jam that is pure Prince with that Lovesexy guitar sound all over it..a quite incredible track. Also check out 'numb' if you wnat some hip shakin' groove!

Tokyo89 said:

funkyhead said:

there's a track towards the end [sorry can't recall the name] that is a slow jam that is pure Prince with that Lovesexy guitar sound all over it..a quite incredible track. Also check out 'numb' if you wnat some hip shakin' groove!

thankyou so much for that...what a song, what a song..simply incredible.

I like Please Come Home.

MadamGoodnight said:

I like Please Come Home.

Love that one

Looooove Gary Clarke!

He gets better reviews than Prince.

Chris Thomas King is good too:

http://grooveshark.com/#!...UY77?src=5

I love his sound. I bought his cd 1 month ago. For me, he is like a mix between Al Green/B.B. King, with his blues-country-rock-soul sound. Love it. I just watched him perform on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2013.

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FWIW, he blew John Mayer off the stage at the RRHOF induction show.