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- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Release Date: Sep 11, 2015
- Summary: The second full-length release for the Austin guitarist was self-produced.
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- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Genre(s): Blues, Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock
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Sep 3, 2015Less flashy than his debut, but in pulling back on the guitar heroics, he galvanizes his genre-jumping, to.
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Sep 3, 2015By sidestepping guitar herodom, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim stakes out territory Gary Clark Jr. can proudly call his own.
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Q MagazineOct 6, 2015He shows off his instrumental chops. [Nov 2015, p.106]
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Sep 9, 2015It's a pleasant surprise to hear that he's capable of so much more.
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UncutSep 28, 2015Plurality is the key to Clark Jr's appeal here. It also has to be said that this is a pretty safe, porous realm in which soul, hip-hop, Princely funk and ringing electric blues feed into one another. [Nov 2015, p.73]
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Sep 8, 2015With a new dose of narrative flow, his second record keeps tighter boundaries than his first. It’s less adventurous but more driven, with sharper eyes on the road.
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Sep 3, 2015It grows with listens, and at its best (as on Hold On), Clark’s guitar/soul-beat fusion is smooth and stylish. But some of it is just (whisper it) a bit boring.
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