COOL NEW ARTIST ALERT: GARY CLARK, JR.

Right now, I'm pretty excited about this Gary Clark, Jr. guy. I was turned onto him by a music exec from VH1 - in fact, she's the same person who turned me on to Charles Bradley a few months back. He is a bluesman who I feel can appeal to people outside of the blues crowd, and even outside of the mainstream rock and jam band scene, and outside of guitar players. I think he may be that type of artist, who comes along once in a generation, who can turn younger kids onto the blues.  The last guy like that was Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The Bright Lights EP is available on iTunes, check him out. I have to give props to Rolling Stone, by the way, who gave him the lead review in their current issue (even though the guy from Pavement has a new solo album).  Check out the review here.