Gary Clark Jr.

One afternoon in 2005 in Austin I was with friends at "Friends" a bar on sixth street in Austin watching the local band The Erin Jaimes Band perform (they still perform every Tuesday there) when after the break a tall slender black "kid" asked if he could sit in on the next set. No guitar, he used the band's and proceeded to tear the house down. I said to my friend- "this guy will be great...".

John Sayles wrote and  direct Honeydripper, a period musical drama starring Danny Glover, blues guitarist Keb' Mo', R&B singer Ruth Brown and Gary Clark Jr., a Texas blues guitarist. Set in 1950s Alabama, Sayles' original script centers on Tyrone (Glover), owner of the Honeydripper juke joint. When business at Tyrone's blues club begins to drop off, against his better judgment, Tyrone hires Sonny (Clark), a young electric guitarist, in a last-ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time. "It's about that Bo Diddly moment, when music moves from the blues to rock 'n' roll

At Bumbershoot in 2007 John Sayles was introducing the Honeydrippers All Star band and I saw that same tall, slender guitarist again...Gary Clark Jr. Again he tore the place up...well, time has caught up with my original opinion about Gary.

 

 

 

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