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Artist
Clay George
8+ albums
about
Essentially it's the voice. A voice you recognize but can't place, singing about a place you recognize but can't face. At the core, Clay George writes about the ironies of being too sharp an observer in a world where people only see what they want to see. His voice was made for the car radio in another era. You tuned in while driving a lonely road at night, desperate for diversion. That's it, that's the voice! And then you never heard that song again. But sometimes the only difference between a good song and a great song is the size of its audience. Here are some good songs that are destined to be great. Listen. Who are your musical and songwriting heroes? I'm more a fan of songs or even parts of songs than I am of individual musicians or songwriters. Truth be told, the music that really moves me the most has little to do with the singer/songwriter genre. Should I be saying that out loud? I secretly wish I were a classical pianist/composer. That or an opera singer. As songwriters go, I'd be lying if I said I'd never listened to a bunch of Townes Van Zandt, Dylan, or Springsteen. But who hasn't? When did you first start playing and what compelled you to start? I began playing piano when I was quite young, and my parents got me an old Wurlitzer to practice on. There was also an old Traynor amp and a microphone that my father had acquired from a friend who lived up the street. I spent a lot of time messing around in the basement with that stuff, and with my fathers
