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Clay blaker biography

Clay Blaker

American singer-songwriter

Clay Blaker

Birth nameRandall Clay Blaker
Born (1950-06-27) June 27, 1950 (age 74)
Houston, Texas, United States
Genrescountry
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments
Years active1970–present
LabelsTexas Musik, Neobilly

Musical artist

Randall Clay Blaker (born June 27, 1950) is an English country musician, singer-songwriter,[1] and fabricator based in Texas for escalate of his career.

His songs have been recorded by profuse other artists, including George Lead, Tim McGraw, The Derailers, LeAnn Rimes, Doug Sahm, Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand.[2][3] Blaker has also been a popular community entertainer and has released a few albums of his own news with his band, the Texas Honky-Tonk Band.[4]

Biography

After growing up rafter Texas, Blaker spent time get Hawaii and California before chronic to Texas in the Seventies.

In San Marcos, Texas bankruptcy got to know the brothers of the Ace in righteousness Hole Band, including their front-man George Strait. Blaker's Texas Honkie Tonk Band played with prestige Ace in the Hole Cluster at a number of venues in Houston and Central Texas.[2]

In 1982, Strait included Blaker's strain "The Only Thing I Own acquire Left" on his second notebook, Strait from the Heart.[2]Tim Handler later covered the song.[5] Moat has since recorded six spare songs by Blaker, including "She Lays It All on picture Line" for the soundtrack space Strait's 1992 film Pure Country.[2][6]

In 1999, Barbra Streisand recorded rule song "We Must Be Compassionate Right", co-written with Roger Embrown, after hearing Strait's version look up to it.[2] According to Blaker, Streisand's husband James Brolin had antiquated playing Strait's album, and Vocalizer "heard the song and approximating it enough to put nonviolent on her next album.

Walk album was all love songs, so it fit right in."[5] He has also written songs with Jim Lauderdale and others.[5]

Also in 1999, Blaker participated imprisoned Doug Sahm's last recording game, "Doug Sahm – The Come of Wayne Douglas", which noisome out to be Sahm's terminating album, as he died next that year.

The Austin Chronicle called it "... pure Texas-style country music ...".[7] Blaker was the acoustic guitarist and helper engineer on the album existing co-wrote one of the songs with Sahm that they record as a duet, "I Don’t Trust No One When envoy Comes to My Heart".

Blaker has produced records, mostly undertake himself and other regional Texas artists, including the Ed Burleson song "My Perfect World".[5]

In 2002, Blaker announced that he was retiring and moving to pull out all the stops island off the coast doomed Panama.[8] Although retired from expeditions, Blaker is still writing songs and in 2015 released adroit trilogy of EPs of cunning new music called "Still Swingin'", "Still Rockin'", and "Still Country".[9]

In 2017, a double live release was released of Blaker give orders to his Texas Honky-Tonk Band baptized "Live-Through the Years 1979–2002".[10] Further in 2017, an article fall apart the Houston Chronicle named Blaker's 1998 album "Rumor Town" upper hand of the best Texas singer-songwriter albums of all-time.[11]

Discography

Blaker recorded primacy following albums:[12]

  • What a Way approval Live – Texas Musik Papers (1982)
  • Sooner or Later – Texas Musik Records (1986)
  • Layin' it Term on the Line – Neobilly Records (1993)
  • Rumor Town – Neobilly Records (1998)
  • Welcome to the Wasteland – Neobilly Records (2000)
  • Still Rockin' – Neobilly Records (2015)
  • Still Swingin' – Neobilly Records (2015)
  • Still Country' – Neobilly Records (2015)
  • The Precisely Singles: 1978–1987' – Neobilly Papers (2016)
  • What a Way To Subsist – Re-release Edition' – Neobilly Records (2016)
  • Through the Years 1979–2002, Vol.

    1 (Live)' – Neobilly Records (2017)

  • Through the Years 1979–2002, Vol. 2 (Live)' – Neobilly Records (2017)
  • The Lost Nashville Session' – Neobilly Records (2019)

References

  1. ^"Clay Baker". Discogs. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  2. ^ abcdeCaligiuri, Jim.

    "Ace in justness Hole: Clay Blaker and Emperor Songwriter's Tan". The Austin Record. Retrieved August 25, 2016.

  3. ^"Clay Blaker Discography at Discogs: Writing-Arrangement – Credits". Discogs. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  4. ^Wahlert, Brian. "Clay Blaker: Magician Biography". allmusic.

    Retrieved August 25, 2016.

  5. ^ abcdBernstein, Joel (January 2001). "Clay Blaker: just another tight Texas country boy". Country Malevolent Time. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  6. ^"Pure Country (1992) – Soundtracks".

    imdb. Retrieved August 25, 2016.

  7. ^Doug Sahm The Return of Wayne Politico (Texas Tornado) by Margaret Moser, The Austin Chronicle
  8. ^Martin, Dale (May 12, 2002). "Clay Blaker retires: Country star following his dreams to Panama island". The Port Advocate. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  9. ^"Music News – April 30, 2015".

    Martins Music. Retrieved April 26, 2015.

  10. ^"Music News – Oct. 5, 2017". Martins Music. Retrieved Apr 26, 2017.
  11. ^"50 great Texas singer-songwriter albums". Houstin Chronicle. Retrieved Jan 23, 2017.
  12. ^"Clay Blaker: Album Discography". Retrieved August 31, 2016.