~· ..... ~. - '"': : --~-.- The -Clarks· are lVOrth ex-ploring Though the members of the Berkeley. Produced by their · featured in the motion picture band The Clarks were never own music label, King, IVJ;ouse Boys, starring Winona Ryder. commissioned to exp!ore the Records, The Clarks met with Further honors for The Clarks 1803 Louisiana Purchase, The much success with their 1988 include being spotlighted by Clarks' music has travelled well debut, I'll Tell· You What Man, Billboard Magazine in its "conti­ beyond the soil west of the and their self-titled 1991 release nental Drift'' column, which Mississippi. The Clarks. As The Clarks' fame highlights rising regional singers The Clarks, who in 1996 cel­ carried. from the college radio and bands. Ultimately, earlier ebrated their I Oth anniversary as this year The Clarks released a band, includes on their fourth and latest album, vocals and guitars; Greg Joseph Making , and signed on bass, mandolin, and vocals; with Way Cool Music/MCA Robert James on six and 12 records label. string guitars, vocals and har­ ~ with ~ Someday Maybe includes monies; and David Minarik on Jason Sico thirteen new songs, including a drums and vocals. Though not re-release· of "Cigarette." There all of The Clarks will agree that are other potential break through the band's name is a homage to chart busters on this Cd includ­ William Clark, half of the ing "Courtney," "Rain," "Never exploring duo of Lewis and Noise Let You Down," "One Day in Clark, they will attest that My Life," "No Place Called they've been inspired by such scene to local stations_, their Home," and "Everything Has performers as The Replacements 1994 Love Gone Sour, Suspicion Changed," and. Apart from the The Rainmakers and Tom Petty. and Bad Debt, gained them sta­ great guitar . acoustics, The Much like those they have tus among local press. Clarks' songs include verses been influenced by, The Clarks' The City Paper about fallen· women and Roman genre is grassroots American has named The Clarks "Best gods. The lyrics are insightful guitar rock. This genre is much Band" each year from 1992 to and enjoyable. akin to their own grassroots 1995. The Clarks' assent into Though it may take some beginning. Though they started stardom includes their "Rain" exploring of your own to find out as four guys who entered a (from Someday Maybe), which their album, The Clarks' local band contest, The Clarks was heard in recent NBC-TV Someday Maybe, should be a had their music top college radio telefilm Class Reunion, and definite pick-up regardless of stations from Castleton, V.t. to "Cigarette" (from Love Gone what side of the Mississippi the University of California at Sour; Suspicion and Bad Debt), you're on.

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