Gary Clark Jr.

[TIMBO]

Hi guys, I'm sure you have heard this guy but i'll it out there anyway. Like his sound very much.  
Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights

[tubenit]

I liked that!   He sounds ALOT like a younger version of the old Chicago blues man Son Seals to me!  Both in his vocals and guitar playing.

Good stuff!

Check  out the similarities to Son Seals:   Son Seals - On my Knees

With respect, Tubenit

[Bassmanster]

I saw Son Seals in a bar in Chicago in the early 90s.

[Willabe]

I played for Son for about, umm   ,   8 months or so and then I got tired of it and quit. He was a nice guy and a pretty good band leader.

Went out on the road with him a few times, no more than a week or so at a time, but it was a lot more fun playing at home in Chgo. and being able to go home after the gig and sleep in your own bed.      

The last time I saw him was not long after he and his wife got in to an argument and she shoot him in the face.      

I told him I had read about it in the news and was worried about him, if he was alright? He laughed and said "shhooot, I've hurt my self worse shaving". He still had a big bandage on his face.    

He used to do "Can't Spend What You Ain't Got, Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" an old Muddy Waters song. In the verse it says, she took the baby boy moved out ain't that sad. After he would sing that line he would kinda lift and turn his head back over his shoulder and loudly say to us (band members) in that gruff voice of his "boys ain't that sad" and we'd all shake our heads looking down at the ground and say stuff like, " oh that's sad, yeah that's sad Son, oh that's sad, that's sad."        The crowd loved it.

Had some fun playing for him.