I love the sound of the P-90 (pickups) - when you crank them up and you can get a little feedback, get it to scream at you the right way, it can be kind of cool. "It can be mellow and lowdown, kind of jazzy, or you can crank it up. "I like the versatility of it," he says of the hollow-body electric guitar. His primary instrument these days is a cherry-red Epiphone Casino. "I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.'" He got his first guitar, an Ibanez RX20, at age 12. "That's one of my first memories, really," he says.
Who's bad? The first concert Clark attended - the Denver stop on Michael Jackson's Bad tour in 1988 - set the then 4-year-old on his life path. 22 on USA TODAY's Triple A airplay chart. Ain't Messin' 'Round, a slab of fuzztone-slathered funk peppered with rock 'n' soul horns, is No. 6 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 84,000 copies. Clark's first major-label album, Blak and Blu, released in October, debuted at No.
The Texas guitarist, 28, has been playing out since his teens and now counts Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys and the Rolling Stones among his high-profile fans. is a musician whose stock is on the rise. Whether he's a modern-day bluesman or rock 'n' roll guitar slinger, Gary Clark Jr.
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