Gary Clark Jr.Best Gary Clark Jr. Albums Ranked

Gary Clark Jr. Live

rollingstone

8.0

“Gary Clark Jr. has spent the better part of a decade figuring out how to translate his guitar wizardry into compelling album-length statements. His first two offerings — 2012’s Blak and Blu and 2015’s The Story of Sonny Boy Slim — were steeped in a sleek, modern blues-rock production style that mostly failed to capture the thrilling dynamics of his live show. Clark’s third major-label LP, This Lan”

This Land

pitchfork

7.9

“Leaning into both his songwriting and his studio experimentation, the Texas guitarist proves his eagerness to move beyond the confines of modern blues.”

This Land

pastemagazine

7.5

“In a recent interview with the New York Times, Adia Victoria, a rising Nashville singer/songwriter with a brilliant new album out now, said, “The blues need to move.” Both her album, Silences, and This Land, the third studio effort from Austin-born guitarist Gary Clark Jr., are the sound of the blues on the run. There’s a restlessness to this music that makes it feel exclusive to this moment, yet ”

This Land

rollingstone

7.0

“Texas guitarist breaks free of the studio pitfalls that have sometimes held him back on an ambitious, fiery new album”

The Story of Sonny Boy Slim

rollingstone

6.0

“Anointed a blues-guitar prodigy before he was old enough to drive, 40-year old Austin, Texas, native Gary Clark Jr. has spent much of his career thinking outside his primary genre, and his latest, JPEG RAW, sounds more than ever like the music Clark wants to make rather than the music folks think he makes. Since as early on as his second album, the underrated 2015 collection The Story of Sonny Bo”