- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Release Date: Sep 11, 2015
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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 11, 2015It’s still early to throw accolades like “visionary” around but aspects of Clark’s music encourage that reaction. “This music sets me free,” he continues on “Healing,” and it’s likely to have the same effect on you.
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Sep 11, 2015It’s great that Clark’s new songs separate themselves from genre restrictions. But, in the end, it’s the way he feels his strings that ends up touching us so deeply.
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Sep 11, 2015This music declares that Clark is one artist who will see to it that the blues does indeed have a future, which is what makes him important and Sonny Boy Slim a serious leap forward from Blak and Blu.
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Oct 13, 2015Clark's biggest triumph is in managing to splice his previous influences together in a cohesive and pleasing manner.
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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 9, 2015It's a pleasant surprise to hear that he's capable of so much more.
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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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