Latest Release
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- APR 19, 2024
- 19 Songs
- Echoes · 1965
- No Other · 1974
- No Other · 1974
- No Other · 1974
- No Other · 1974
- This Is Us (Music From the Series) · 1971
- No Other · 1974
- White Light (Remastered) · 1971
- White Light (Remastered) · 1971
- White Light (Remastered) · 1971
Essential Albums
- Also known as simply "Gene Clark," White Light is a classic country-influenced singer/songwriter album from the early '70s. Clark's songwriting is peerless, and his vocals ache with a sincerity that brings out the heartbreak in the Clark/Jesse Ed Davis song "With Tomorrow." The band is impeccable, with Flying Burrito Brother Chris Ethridge on bass, Mike Utley on organ, producer Jesse Ed Davis on guitar, and the Steve Miller Band's Ben Sidran on piano and Gary Mallaber on drums. Though the album was sinfully ignored commercially upon its release, it's remained a critical favorite. The pathos of "Because of You" and the glorious organ-acoustic guitar interplay of "One in a Hundred" are further sparked by Clark's angelic voice. "For a Spanish Guitar," with acoustic guitar and harmonica, is wrapped in a forlorn melody that spreads across the evening sky. Clark's take on Bob Dylan's "Tears of Rage" evokes the darkness of The Band's legendary version. This edition of the album features an alternate mix of "Because of You," three previously unreleased tunes, and the rare country-rock track "Winter In."
Artist Playlists
- Songs from an original Byrd in the vanguard of ’60s and ’70s pop
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
Compilations
Appears On
- Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman
About Gene Clark
Best known as the original lead singer of The Byrds, Gene Clark continued to develop the brand of sophisticated psych-folk songwriting he'd patented in the band on his own undersung solo releases, now the stuff of record-collector obsession. Born in 1944 in Tipton, MO, Clark came to the music industry by way of the folk revival, joining the singing group The New Christy Minstrels in 1963 and the following year founding the band that would become The Byrds. Shortly after his psychedelic original “Eight Miles High” catapulted up the pop charts in 1966, Clark left the group, throwing disparate stylistic ideas at the wall on his 1967 debut solo album and dabbling in bluegrass with his Dillard & Clark duo. In the next decade, Clark found renewed focus on two tour de force albums: 1971’s White Light, a stripped-down set of painstakingly crafted folk-rock songs, and 1975’s intricately arranged baroque-pop masterpiece No Other. He would go on to make music with various formations of ex-Byrds and in other miscellaneous projects before dying in 1991 of complications related to alcoholism. Clark’s reputation was cemented with a new generation of fans in the 2010s, when a series of rarities albums and reissues emerged, as well as an indie-rock supergroup, The Gene Clark No Other Band (featuring members of Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, Wye Oak, and more), which formed in 2014 to cover Clark’s magnum opus.
- HOMETOWN
- Tipton, MO, United States
- BORN
- November 17, 1944
- GENRE
- Rock