This Land

Would be a wild move to give my added album anything other than a 5. Had a crisis choosing between this and another one of his albums Black and Blu but ultimately picked this because it was the first album that came to my head when I heard that we got to add an album to this list once finishing. Guitar Man and Low Down Rolling Stone are two of my favorite all time songs. Plus so many other face melters

This land is the third album by blues guitar player and singer Gary Clark Jr. His music is mainly blues but takes trips around surrounding genres like soul, rnb, hip hop and rock n roll. "Pearl Cadillac" is for example a great ballad that could have been written and performed by Prince. This album is good, but a stricter song selection would have resulted in a real great album. There are just some tracks that don't add that much like "Dirty Dishes Blues".

Dude's got chops. This was cool.

Tour of america blues perfection. I thought I didn't like the blues. I was so wrong

This had me sold on the first notes. Also: that 1st song is quite a statement! Very cool album!

Love me some blues. GCJ is someone I have't thought of much, but will check out more of his stuff. Loved this album.

I absolutely love this album one of my most played during lockdown, a great talent and a great example of modern blues.

Blues, rock, R&B, hard rock. Está bien. Un 4, venga.

Saw the blues rock tag with the year of release and got skeptical, but this exceeded my expectations! Still a bit too long but a very solid and engaging work nonetheless

This Land is a jam. The crazy sludge bass goes hard on it. I just gotta laugh at Feelin' Like a Million. Not sure reggae is GC Jr.'s thang. This Land, Pearl Cadillac, The Guitar Man, and Low Down Rolling Stone are the jams of the album. Love that he tries some different sounds on here even if it does feel a bit disjointed at times. Definitely enjoy him the most when he's shredding and bluesy.

Whoever added this to the list probably has a huge hog and a huger heart.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: This land, I walk alone, Feelin’ like a million

This was a fun album. Even though I dont' really remember it, I've seen him live 5 (!) times at the Crossroad Guitar Festival over the years. The album is a little long and could have trimmed 10-15 minutes and make it stellar. It just doesn't work at times for me. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Loved this. Amazing guitar playing and such a good variety of styles and songs. 4 stars.

Some pretty good tunes on here

2 bad

As a guitar player, I feel obligated to say that every guitar solo on this LP is bad. Like, objectively, structurally, baby’s first pentatonic scale level bad. It’s a fitting signifier for the LP as a whole, which has all the grace and artistic finesse of a cinderblock heaved through a window. Clark rushes from genre to genre in a way that makes this feel more compilation than cohesive LP. If there’s any thematic center, it’s the big, dumb country arena rock that’s already so played out in our time. The lyricism is banal, the melodies played out, and the production sterile. Clark is clearly being genuine in his artistry here, but while that artistry has vision in spades the execution is creatively bankrupt.