On Sept. 23, contemporary guitar virtuoso Gary Clark Jr. released a two-disc live album without much fanfare, despite being one of the premiere live performers today.
Fittingly titled Gary Clark Jr. Live, the LP allows fans to experience the artist without the bells and whistles that accompany a studio recording. Just watch Clark and his band tear through "Travis County," included on the album, below.
Rarely can energy like that be captured in a studio. Other cuts from the record, as Rolling Stone points out, include the Jimi Hendrix cover "Third Stone from the Sun," Albert Collins's "If Trouble Was Money" and original tracks like "Ain't Messin 'Round" and "Please Come Home."
The full tracklist is below, and the album is available on iTunes and Clark's website.
In 2013, Clark told Rolling Stone what it was like to be a contemporary artist balancing personal ambitions with public expectations to be a throwback blues axeman.
"If it were up to everybody else, I would do Hendrix covers all the time," he said. "I saw this comment from somebody online the other day, saying, 'We need you to play more Chicago or Louisiana blues — we want the raw s---.' Well, I'm not from Chicago or from Louisiana. I'm not from that time period. There was segregation. That music was the popular music at the time. People were doing what they did in that moment in time to express themselves. It's a different time."
Gary Clark Jr. Live Tracklist:
Disc 1
1. Catfish Blues (Robert Petway cover)
2. Next Door Neighbor Blues
3. Travis Country
4. When My Train Pulls In
5. Don't Owe You a Thing
6. Three O'Clock Blues (Lowell Fulson cover)
7. Things Are Changin'
8. Numb
Disc 2
1. Ain't Messin' 'Round
2. If Trouble Was Money (Albert Collins cover)
3. Third Stone from the Sun/If You Love Me Like You Say (Jimi Hendrix/Albert Collins cover)
4. Please Come Home
5. Blak and Blu
6. Bright Lights
7. When the Sun Goes Down
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