{"id":480703,"date":"2019-01-10T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=777000"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:13:46","slug":"gary-clark-jr-s-new-song-is-a-scathing-account-of-trump-era-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/gary-clark-jr-s-new-song-is-a-scathing-account-of-trump-era-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Clark Jr.\u2019s New Song Is a Scathing Account of Trump-Era Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Gary Clark Jr., racism was a part of everyday life growing up in Texas. It\u2019s something he rarely spoke about as he became one of the world\u2019s greatest living guitar players, championed by everyone from Eric Clapton to Barack Obama. But the 2016 election and the subsequent policies of President Donald Trump changed that.<\/p>\n

Today, Clark releases \u201cThis Land,\u201d a powerful, blues-soaked indictment of modern racism. Clark sings a true story about living on \u201c50 acres with a Model A\/Right in the middle of Trump country,\u201d next to a neighbor who \u201ccan\u2019t wait to call the police on me.\u201d The chorus is something he\u2019s heard before: \u201cNigga run, nigga run\/Go back where you come from.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an upcoming Rolling Stone<\/em> feature, Clark speaks about the very real experiences behind the song. \u201cI think it\u2019s only right at this point in time, if you have a microphone louder than others, to speak out about that anger,\u201d he said in a conversation that ranged from Colin Kaepernick to the border wall being debated in his home state.\u00a0\u201cI haven\u2019t been through shit compared to my people. But if I can do anything with my opportunity, and say thank you to Dr. Martin Luther King for sacrificing your life so that I can have a microphone \u2026 that\u2019s the least I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song is the title track from Clark\u2019s third album, out March 1st, which is full of creative risks, proving he\u2019s a lot more than a blues torchbearer. Clark worked alone with a co-producer and engineer at Austin\u2019s Arlyn Studios studios for months, making an epic LP that spans stripped-down acoustic country blues, Prince-like epics, dub-reggae jams and more. \u201cI wanted every note and lyric to mean something,\u201d says Clark. \u201cThere was a lot of trial and error, a lot of experimentation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video for \u201cThis Land\u201d was directed by award-winning 25-year-old filmmaker Savanah Leaf,\u00a0and filmed around Clark\u2019s home in rural Texas, capturing a young boy grappling with haunting symbols of American racism such as the Confederate flag. \u201cI basically just told her where I came from and she made a beautiful short film out of it,\u201d Clark says. \u201cShout out to her, much love. I hope the video and the song together accomplish acceptance and moving forward \u2014 feed the babies, teach the babies to love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark\u00a0hits the road on a massive tour beginning March 9th that includes multi-night theater stands in cities like New York, Nashville and Chicago.<\/p>\n

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For Gary Clark Jr., racism was a part of everyday life growing up in Texas. It\u2019s something he rarely spoke about as he became one of the world\u2019s greatest living guitar players, championed by everyone from Eric Clapton to Barack Obama. But the 2016 election and the subsequent policies of President Donald Trump changed that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 11:01:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}