A friend of mine had a saying, something like “You can’t drag someone across the finish line.” He wasn’t talking about a race, or literally dragging someone, but about working with someone who was not willing to put a…

About 2 years ago I stumbled across a video of a couple of young ladies playing the Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia on violin and cello. I had forgotten about this tune, even though I had been exposed to it many years ago,…

Well, today I posted on Hatebook Facebook that I was leaving, and may not be back for days or weeks, maybe forever. This has been building up for a while, but the strange reactions after Tom Petty's death and the…

So, I have a friend named Shawn Williams, and he has a new project which he calls The Core. Last week I had the opportunity to go see him live. Well. Let me tell you, this is the type of…

As you all undoubtedly know, mister David Bowie passed away recently. 

One of the last tunes he released was called "Lazarus." My friend, singer-songwriter Jerry Dale Harris  decided he 

wanted to record an acoustic version of the song…

A while back I mentioned that I was recording a song for a movie, and I thought I would finally make time to tell you the story.

The movie is a short form, experimental film being written & directed by…

I took up guitar in 1967, when Lyndon Johnson is president, gas is 33¢ per gallon, Sean Connery is James Bond, 911 systems do not exist, no place in the world has a law requiring you to wear a seat…

Hi folks, this post went out as a newsletter a couple weeks back, and it seems like a good blog entry as well.

I typically try to avoid end-of-the-year recaps, because I like to look towards tomorrow, rather than dwell…

ClarkPlaysGuitar dot com has been around for 15 years this month. Wow. It's crazy how time flies. Over this decade-and-a-half the internet has changed a lot, and I’ve tried to keep this site in step with the “world wide web”…