This Land

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".

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!

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

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.