Episode 383 - Clarke Blacker

Clarke is a musician and artist whose improvised and mostly unstructured guitar pieces built up from multiple improvised layers create a dreamlike, atmospheric soup of sound. His first solo album "Hear Us Through the Hole in Thin Air" came out in 2020. His next "A Theory of Color," is in the final stages of production now.

In 1981 he put together a band that would go on to be notorious in the Texas punk scene called Stick Men With Ray Guns. They were close friends with members of the Butthole Surfers, and often shared the stage, until the Surfers began to tour nationally. They broke up in 1981.


SONG 1: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan released in 1964 on the album of the same name.  https://youtu.be/9ywYohqoM60?si=75piKwcE--89DcQ_

SONG 2: “God Save the Queen” by the (Scottish?) Sex Pistols on the album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols released in 1977.  https://youtu.be/1W6AxgqGdhM?si=9H8xv-YN_k23oBpP

SONG 3: “Evening Star” by Fripp & Eno...it's the title track off their 1975 album. https://youtu.be/kFDPPl9yZvQ?si=NMa3oJCwQM0JzYdu