Humble. Exuberant. Virtuoso. Eclectic. Gary Clark Jr. is real southern blues and rock legend in the making. For the second time in just over two months, Jr. has sold out the legendary Roxy Theatre on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. His performance on Tuesday night, April 16th was of the most pure.

GCJ kicked the night off with “When My Train Rolls In” from his most recent album, Blak and Blu. This set the tone for what would come to be a very gratifying musical evening. Nearly two hours deep, Clark and his three-piece band had rolled through a flawless set. When the audiences’ eyes were finally unglued, and when my jaw was picked up off the floor, I looked around to discover that the entire room had just been hypnotized. Maybe it was the way Clark’s guitar seemed almost weightless in his gentle hands, as he swayed across the stage during “Things Are Changing”. Perhaps it was the sensational sounds and melodies of Robert Petway’s “Catfish Blues” that pumped through the speakers, or maybe it was when he played his song “Numb,” that the goose bumps and chills were simply just too hard for everyone to shake?

A succeeding two-song encore felt epic and solidified that Gary Clark Jr. could very well soon become a household name. The guitar gods are surely smiling down on him.

Review by Charlie Walker

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