Gary Clark Jr. Releasing Album, Opening for Clapton

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Gary Clark Jr. (Photo from his Facebook page)

Contemporary blues artist Gary Clark Jr. will release a new live album on March 17th via Warner Bros. Records. Live North America 2016, his second live album, is available for pre-order beginning via all digital retail stores. All pre-orders will include an instant download of a live version of “The Healing.” Live North America 2016 will be available on CD, vinyl, and digitally. Pre-order is available here. Watch the official video for “The Healing Live” below.

The release of Live North America 2016 coincides with Clark’s appearances as a special guest at Eric Clapton’s upcoming 50th anniversary shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 19 and 20 and at The Forum in Los Angeles on March 25.

The album includes all new and unreleased live recordings from Clark’s 2016 tour in support of his 2015 album The Story of Sonny Boy Slim. It features several songs from that album, including “The Healing,” “Grinder,” “Our Love,” “Cold-Blooded” and “Shake,” featuring Leon Bridges and his saxophonist Jeff Dazey. It also includes two previously unreleased covers, Jimmy Reed’s “Honest I Do” and Elmore James’ “My Baby’s Gone,” as well as “You Saved Me” and “When My Train Pulls In,” from Clark’s Warner Bros. debut Blak and Blu. Live North America 2016 was recorded with no overdubs.

BCB’s reviewer said, about that album, “[Some] look to him as the next great guitar player, when he’s already there and one of the best to come out of Austin, Texas (which has yielded talents like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson). After sharing the stage with many guitar greats including Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, he could have easily released a series of blues-rock records and called it a day. That’s only part of his palette he chooses to wield. His latest record leaves no doubt that he can and will do anything musically he wants.”

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Live North America 2016 track listing
Grinder
The Healing
Our Love
Cold Blooded
When My Train Pulls In
Down To Ride
You Saved Me
Shake (feat. Leon Bridges w/ Jeff Dazey)
Church I am
Honest I Do
My Baby’s Gone
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