{"id":482343,"date":"2019-02-17T09:47:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=795928"},"modified":"2019-02-17T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:47:49","slug":"watch-gary-clark-jr-channel-prince-with-pearl-cadillac-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-gary-clark-jr-channel-prince-with-pearl-cadillac-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gary Clark Jr. Channel Prince With \u2018Pearl Cadillac\u2019 on \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-17-at-7.23.59-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> musical guest Gary Clark Jr.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u2013 who was introduced by host Don Cheadle<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/don-cheadle-snl-wardrobe-795929\/\">sporting a \u201cProtect Trans Kids\u201d t-shirt<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u2013<\/span> <span>delivered an electric performance of \u201cPearl Cadillac,\u201d the third single from his forthcoming album\u00a0<\/span><em>This Land<\/em><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Clark\u2019s first performance of the episode was light on the theatrics and heavy on the striking Prince-like guitar-work as the musician strictly relied solely on his talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clark returned to the Studio 8H stage to perform the title track of his forthcoming album\u00a0<em>This Land<\/em>. The politically-charged anthem was fueled by the impassioned vocals of Clark and his jaw-dropping guitar near the end of the track.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KbOAY86deq0?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clark recently told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/gary-clark-jr-new-album-racism-donald-glover-789997\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that he thinks \u201cThis Land\u201d is \u201cthe most important song\u201d he\u2019s ever made. \u201cIt\u2019s about being black in America, in the South,\u201d he told <em>RS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To coincide with his guest spot on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\"><em>SNL<\/em><\/a> this week, Clark released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-gary-clark-jr-s-vision-of-rural-america-in-what-about-us-video-795835\/\">a powerful black-and-white visual for his single\u00a0\u201cWhat About Us,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which featured his own lens of rural America: an octogenarian mixed-race couple smoking, two genderfluid individuals and a black father teaching his son how to play guitar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gary-clark-jr-snl-795928\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live musical guest Gary Clark Jr.\u00a0\u2013 who was introduced by host Don Cheadle sporting a \u201cProtect Trans Kids\u201d t-shirt\u00a0\u2013 delivered an electric performance of \u201cPearl Cadillac,\u201d the third single from his forthcoming album\u00a0This Land. Clark\u2019s first performance of the episode was light on the theatrics and heavy on the striking Prince-like guitar-work as [&hellip;]<\/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-482343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 05:28:48","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\/482343","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=482343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}