AUSTIN, Texas — Gary Clark Jr. is coming back home to put on a show at Austin City Limits Live for New Year’s Eve.
Many performers have taken the Moody Theater stage at ACL. The venue has hosted artists of all genres, showcasing a diverse set of musical performances over the years. Austin has lots of live music venues, and is often referred to as the “Live Music Capital of the World.”
The city of Austin has an impressive blues music scene that has influenced Clark’s sound, at 12 years old getting a guitar and picking up on blues while in middle school. He now fuses blues, rock and soul music with elements of hip hop, winning multiple Grammy awards in 2020 and 2014. Finding commercial success as a guitarist, some musicians have said he’s elevated blues music.
Fans see him as the modern-day Jimi Hendrix, a guitar legend.
On Dec. 31, at 9:30 p.m., Clark will be at the Moody Theater. You may hear songs like, "This Land," “Bright Lights,” “When My Train Pulls In,” or “Come Together,” a song that was originally performed by the Beatles, but re-produced with Junkie XL and Clark for Zack Snyder’s 2017 film “Justice League.”
“This Land,” is his third studio album with Warner Bros that was released in 2019. “On the title track of ‘This Land,’ Gary Clark Jr. is staking his claim to a literal place on the map, settling in and declaring: ‘I told you there goes the neighborhood… This is mine now, legit.’ It’s a song with real-life roots in how Clark and his family have traded up in turf in his native Texas and been met with some suspicious glances upon move-in,” according to AXS.
After Clark and his wife bought a 50-acre horse ranch in 2016 in Kyle, Texas, a neighbor asked racist questions regarding his ownership. This experience inspired the song “This Land.”
Ticket sales are open to the public, just go here. Door prices range from $99 to $175.