Gary Clark Jr.

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Gary Clark Jr.
Gary Clark, Jr. 2013.jpg
Clark performing at the North Coast Music Festival 2013
Background information
Birth nameGary Lee Clark Jr.
Born (1984-02-15) February 15, 1984 (age 40)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active1996–present
Labels
Website garyclarkjr.com

Gary Lee Clark Jr. [1] (born February 15, 1984) is an American guitarist and singer who fuses blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop. [2] In 2011, Clark signed with Warner Bros Records and released The Bright Lights EP. [3] It was followed by the albums Blak and Blu (2012) and The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (2015). Throughout his career, Clark has been a prolific live performer, documented by Gary Clark Jr. Live (2014) and Gary Clark Jr Live/North America (2017). [4]

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In 2014, Clark was awarded a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B performance for the song "Please Come Home". [5] In 2020, he won the Grammy Award for "Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Performance" for the song "This Land" from that album. [6] His most recent album, JPEG Raw , was released in 2024.

Career

Early career

Gary Clark Jr. began playing guitar at the age of 12. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Clark played small gigs throughout his teens until he met promoter Clifford Antone, proprietor of the Austin music club Antone's. Antone's was the launch pad where Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan redefined blues at the time. [7] After meeting Clifford, Clark began to perform with other musicians, including Jimmie Vaughan. Vaughan and others in the Austin music community helped Clark in his musical career.[ citation needed ]

Clark sang on the 2010 bonus track cover of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" on Sheryl Crow's album 100 Miles from Memphis . [8] [9]

Rolling Stone declared Clark "Best Young Gun" in its April 2011, "Best of Rock" issue. [10]

2012–2014: Collaborations, Blak and Blu, and Gary Clark Jr. Live

In 2012, Clark recorded with Alicia Keys on two different songs. He co-wrote the song "Fire We Make" with Keys, Pop Wansel and Oak Felder for the album Girl on Fire . [11]

On August 28, 2012, Keys revealed via Twitter that Clark's new album and major label debut called Blak and Blu would be released on October 22, 2012. [12] Released by Warner Records, Blak and Blu peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 album chart, and number one on the Blues Albums chart.[ citation needed ]

In 2014, Clark's first live album, Gary Clark Jr. Live , was released. A double album recorded over the course of an 18-month-tour between 2013 and 2014, Gary Clark Jr. Live received generally positive reviews from critics. [13] [14] [15]

Clark worked with the Foo Fighters on the track "What Did I Do? / God as My Witness" on their 2014 album Sonic Highways recorded at KLRU-TV Studio 6A in Austin. [16] [17]

2015–2018: The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, Live North America 2016, and "Come Together" cover

Clark released his album The Story of Sonny Boy Slim on September 11, 2015. [18]

Clark had a guest appearance on Tech N9ne's 2016 album The Storm , providing the chorus for the song "No Gun Control". Clark appeared on Childish Gambino's album "Awaken, My Love!" , released that same year, performing the guitar solo on the track "The Night Me and Your Mama Met".[ citation needed ]

In 2017, Clark released his second live album, Live North America 2016. [19]

Clark collaborated with ZZ Ward on "Ride" from the soundtrack to the 2017 Pixar film Cars 3 . [20]

Clark's cover version of the Beatles' 1969 song "Come Together", was released in early 2017. It became his first charting single, appearing on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, where it peaked at number 15. Clark's version of "Come Together" was featured in the 2017 Zack Snyder-directed superhero film Justice League . [21]

In 2018, Clark featured on two songs on Bun B's album Return of the Trill , "Blood on the Dash" and "Gone Away" also featuring Leon Bridges.[ citation needed ]

Clark was featured on Tom Morello's album The Atlas Underground , providing vocals and guitar on the song "Where It's at Ain't What It Is".[ citation needed ]

2019: This Land

On January 10, 2019, Clark announced the March 1, 2019, release of his album This Land via Warner Bros. [22] On the same day he released the title song from the album supported by a Savanah Leaf directed music video for the song. [23] This Land was chosen as a 'Favorite Blues Album' by AllMusic. [24]

Live appearances

Clark performed at the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival as part of the promotion for John Sayles' 2007 film Honeydripper . Clark performed at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival. [25] [26] [27] He joined Doyle Bramhall II and Sheryl Crow on stage for their performance with Eric Clapton, and also debuted several original songs. [28] [29]

In June 2011, Clark played at the annual Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, [30] at the Miller Lite On Tap Lounge. On June 10, 2012, Clark again played at Bonnaroo, and his performance was streamed live online via the Bonnaroo MusicFest Channel on YouTube. [31]

In February 2012, Clark performed alongside blues musicians at the Red, White and Blues event at the White House. The event, aired on PBS, included B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy, among others. Clark played "Catfish Blues" and "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)", as well as contributing to performances of "Let the Good Times Roll", "Beat Up Old Guitar", "Five Long Years" and "Sweet Home Chicago". [32] [33] [34]

In June 2012, Clark guested with the Dave Matthews Band playing "Can't Stop" and "All Along the Watchtower" at dates in Virginia Beach and Indianapolis and on October 21 and 22, 2012, Clark appeared as the opening act at the Bridge School Benefit Concert, Bridge XXVI. On December 8, 2012, Clark appeared at the Rolling Stones' first US-gig of their 50th anniversary tour at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, to perform the Don Nix song "Going Down" with the band. [35] On December 15, 2012, he joined them onstage again to play the same song, along with John Mayer, during the last date of the Stones' mini-tour at the Prudential Center. [36]

On May 13, 2013, Clark opened for Eric Clapton & His Band at the LG Arena, Birmingham, England, and on June 12, 2013, Clark was the guest performer with the Rolling Stones at Boston's TD Garden. Clark joined the Stones in playing the Freddie King tune "Going Down". On June 30, 2013, he appeared on the Avalon stage at the Glastonbury Festival. His performance was declared 'the most electric performance of the festival, knocking the legendary appearance of the Rolling Stones (the previous night) well into second place' and on October 25, 2013, he appeared on long-running British music show Later... with Jools Holland . [37]

On February 9, 2014, Clark performed the Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", along with Dave Grohl and Joe Walsh for The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles. On February 16, 2014, Clark performed in the NBA All-Star Game Halftime Show with Trombone Shorty, Earth Wind and Fire, Doctor John, and Janelle Monáe. On May 29, 2014, Clark performed at Rock in Rio in Lisbon. Clark performed guitar, as a guest, on an episode of the PBS cable television show Austin City Limits , with the Foo Fighters, that aired on February 7, 2015. He and the Foo Fighters were accompanied by Jimmie Vaughan. [38]

On May 24, 2015, Clark opened for the Rolling Stones at Petco Park in San Diego. On July 4, 2015, played as part of the lineup for the Foo Fighters 20th Anniversary show at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. On June 8, 2016, he performed alongside Jon Batiste and Stay Human as musical guest of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and on June 26, 2016, he performed during West Holts Stage, Glastonbury Festival, and on July 8, 2016, performed on the Preferred One Stage at the Basilica Block Party in Minneapolis.[ citation needed ]

On January 10, 2019, Clark appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , on which he performed "This Land" and "Feed the Babies". [39] The latter he performed along with Jon Batiste and Stay Human as a bonus track.[ citation needed ]

On February 16, 2019, Clark performed "Pearl Cadillac" and "This Land" on NBC's Saturday Night Live . [40] [41]

On February 28, 2019, Clark performed "This Land" on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah .[ citation needed ]

On July 7, 2019, Clark opened for the Rolling Stones' concert at Gillette Stadium during their 2019 No Filter Tour. Clark provided guest vocals and guitar with the Stones during their performance of "Ride 'Em on Down".[ citation needed ] [42]

Clark led the band (and Bruce Springsteen) at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during Jon Stewart's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony on April 24, 2022. [43]

Film and television appearances

Awards and recognitions

Kirk Watson, the Mayor of Austin, proclaimed May 3, 2001, to be Gary Clark Jr. Day. Clark was seventeen years old at the time. [48] [49] [50] Clark won the Austin Music Award for Best Blues and Electric Guitarist, on three different occasions. [25]

Clark was Spin 's breakout artist for the month of November 2011. [51]

Rolling Stone magazine ranked Clark's Bright Lights EP (named for the title track, an homage to Jimmy Reed and his song of the same name), number 40 on its list of its top 50 albums of 2011. [52]

While playing music festivals such as Coachella, JazzFest, Memphis Beale St., Hangout, High Sierra, Sasquatch, Mountain Jam, Wakarusa, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Hard Rock Calling, Newport Folk Festival, Orion Music Festival, Osheaga, Lollapalooza, and ACL Music Festival, Clark was awarded Spin Magazine 's Golden Corndog award for performing in more major North American music festivals in 2012 than any other musician. [53]

Clark swept the 31st annual Austin Music Awards for 2012–2013, collecting eight awards, he earned the following: Band of the Year, Musician of the Year, Song of the Year – "Ain't Messin Round" (from Blak and Blu), Album of the Year – Blak and Blu, Electric Guitarist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Blues/Soul/Funk Artist of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year.

In 2014 and 2015, Clark won a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year' category. [54] [55]

As of 2020, Clark has been nominated for six Grammy Awards, and has won four of them.

Grammy Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2014"Please Come Home" Best Traditional R&B Performance Won
"Ain't Messin' 'Round" Best Rock Song Nominated
2020
[56] 		This Land Best Contemporary Blues Album Won
"This Land" Best Rock Performance Won
Best Rock Song Won
Best Music Video Nominated

Instruments

Gary Clark Jr. mainly uses Epiphone Casino, both P-90 and Humbucker Gibson SG, and both Fender Stratocaster and Fender Telecaster electric guitars, as well as Epiphone Masterbilt and Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitars. Clark has his own signature Blak & Blu Epiphone Casino which features Gibson USA made P-90 pickups. [57] [58] [59] [60]

Clark uses .011-.049 D'Addario Strings EXL 115. [61]

Clark uses a Fender Vibro-King amp purchased from Zapata (who currently tours with him and plays rhythm guitar) paired with a Fender Princeton. He is known for extensive use of fuzz pedals, with his most frequently used pedal being the Fulltone Octafuzz, and regular use of a wah pedal. [62]

Personal life

Clark married Australian model Nicole Trunfio in 2016. [63] They have three children. [64] In late 2016, Clark and Trunfio purchased a 50-acre horse ranch in Kyle, Texas. [65] A series of racist questions from a neighbor about Clark's ownership of the ranch served as inspiration for the song "This Land." [66]

Charity

Clark performed at Alicia Keys' Keep a Child Alive Black Ball benefit, in an effort to raise money for children with AIDS in Africa. [67] The two performed the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as a tribute to George Harrison. [68]

Discography

Studio albums

TitlePeak positions
US
[69] [70] 		AUS
[71] 		FRA
[72] 		GER
[73] 		NLD
[74] 		NZ
[75] 		UK
[76]
Worry No More
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Hotwire Unlimited
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
110
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Hotwire Unlimited
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Blak and Blu
6
34
93
37
6
6
44
The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
  • Released: September 11, 2015
  • Label: Warner Bros.
8
18
126
74
10
13
40
This Land
  • Released: February 22, 2019
  • Label: Warner Bros.
6
23
139
36
50
—
97
JPEG Raw
  • Released: March 22, 2024
—
—
—
—
—
—
—

Live albums

TitlePeak positions
US
[69] 		AUS
[71] 		BEL
[77] 		FRA
[72] 		NLD
[74] 		UK
[78]
Gary Clark Jr. Live
  • Released: September 23, 2014
  • Label: Warner Bros.
26
55
95
159
94
159
Live North America 2016
  • Released: March 17, 2017
  • Label: Warner Bros.
80
32
71
—
—
—

EPs

Title and detailsNotes
Gary Clark Jr. EP
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Hotwire Unlimited
  1. Intro (1:37)
  2. Bright Lights (5:12)
  3. Don't Owe You a Thang (3:33)
  4. Please Come Home (5:04)
  5. The Life (4:38)
  6. Things Are Changing (3:49)
  7. Outro (4:49)
  8. Breakdown (4:16)
The Bright Lights EP
  • Type: EP
  • Released: August 9, 2011 [79]
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  1. Bright Lights (5:24)
  2. Don't Owe You a Thang (3:35)
  3. Things Are Changin' (Live) [Solo Acoustic] (4:31)
  4. When My Train Pulls In (Live) [Solo Acoustic] (8:13)
The Bright Lights EP Australian Tour Edition
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  1. Bright Lights (5:24)
  2. Don't Owe You a Thang (3:35)
  3. Things Are Changin' (Live) [Solo Acoustic] (4:31)
  4. When My Train Pulls In (Live) [Solo Acoustic] (8:13)
  5. Third Stone from the Sun / If You Love Me Like You Say – (Live in Charlottesville, VA) (12:32)
  6. Bright Lights (Live in London, UK) (10:55)
Others
  1. Side A Third Stone from the Sun / If You Love Me Like You Say (Live in Charlottesville, VA) (12:32)
  2. Side B Bright Lights (Live in London, England) (10:55)
  1. Side A When My Train Pulls In (Live at The DO512 Lounge in Austin, TX) (16:22)
  2. Side B When My Train Pulls In (Album Version) (7:45)

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
AAA
[80] 		US
Alt.
[81] 		US
Main.
Rock
[82] 		US
Rock
[83] 		FRA
[84]
"Bright Lights"201229———— Blak and Blu
"Ain't Messin' Around"10————
"The Healing"201518———— The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
"Come Together"2017—3915766 Justice League (soundtrack)
"This Land"201934——42—This Land
"What About Us"——25——
"Wild" [85]
(with John Legend)		2020————— Bigger Love
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Guest appearances

Mixtapes

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