The singer and guitarist will head out on a U.S. tour beginning in March.
Gary Clark Jr. has unveiled a new song and video, “This Land,” the first single from his upcoming album of the same name. The clip was directed by filmmaker Savanah Leaf, and was shot in Clark’s hometown of Austin, Texas.
The roiling, bluesy “This Land” is a furious condemnation of racism in America, with Clark singing, “Paranoid and pissed off / Now that I got the money / Fifty acres and a model A / Right in the middle of Trump country.”
“I think it’s only right at this point in time, if you have a microphone louder than others, to speak out about that anger,” Clark told Rolling Stone. He continued: “I haven’t been through shit compared to my people. But if I can do anything with my opportunity, and say thank you to Dr. Martin Luther King for sacrificing your life so that I can have a microphone, that’s the least I can do.”
This Land will be released on March 1 via Warner Bros. and is available for pre-order here.
Clark will also be launching a U.S. tour in support of the new album beginning March 9 in Miami. You can check out the full itinerary below.
Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.
