Gus Clark

One Liner: Throw-back country and Americana done really well.

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but Americana, country, roots

Home: Seattle

Poster Position: Not on the poster
Weekend One Only.  

Saturday.

Thoughts:   On Spotify, his stuff is titled "Gus Clark & the Least of His Problems" which is both a mouthful and pretty damn fun sounding.  According to Wikipedia, Gus Clark is dead.  He was a Belgian jazz pianist who died in Antwerp in 1979.  But this is apparently not a hologram jazz concert, because this dude's online bio says he is a Seattle-born crooner who left home at eighteen armed with a backpack and a mandolin.  Supposedly, he travelled by freight train and "the kindness of those still bold enough to pick up a hitchiker."  Sounds like ended up back in Seattle after his travels, and now plays his Americana and country music all over town.  The throwback style here is making me think of Charlie Crockett.

Two albums - 2018's A Bit of Country Music and 2022's Some of My Songs.  Those are whack album titles, man.  The debut album doesn't have much in the way of streaming numbers, and the newer album just has one that is getting numbers.  "Sing a Song" has 452k on Spotify.

A little barroom jazzy feel and a voice that is bordering between Joe Ely and Randy Newman.  I'll also give you the biggest tune from that first album - "I'll Go Down Swinging," with 79k streams and a more explicitly country sound.

C3 should have saved this dude for their country music festival next April.  He would have hit the nail on the head for that thing.  I actually like it - I've just been letting it reel off for a while, and the harmonies and old-school stylings are just fun the way that some of those other classicists can be in the country world.  If he wasn't scheduled for noon on a Saturday, I'd say sign me up.