Colin Clark

“Into the Mystic” has got to be one of the most gorgeous songs of all time. Laryn and I watched the movie ‘Immediate Family’ this weekend and this song is featured throughout the movie, so I felt obliged to cover it. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download “Into the Mystic” by Colin Clark

This is a song that I wrote recently. I wrote it one evening when I was leaving the office and I looked up and saw hundreds of black birds swarming in the sky. I started wondering how that many birds can all fly together and if they always get along or if sometimes they just [...]

I first heard this Shins song on the Garden State soundtrack, then promptly bought the Shin’s album and they then became one of my absolute favorite bands. This song is still one of my favorites. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download “New Slang” by Colin Clark

Day 5 goes out to my good friend Ryan Beck who requested this song. This tune by the Flaming Lips was originally released in the early 2000′s. It’s a really quirky song that I’ve always loved. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1″ by Colin Clark

The music world lost a big part of its soul today when Levon Helm passed away today. He was a massive influence on me. I wanted to pay tribute to him by covering, The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down, which is one of my favorite songs that he sang. [Audio clip: view full post [...]

I was a massive Dave Matthews Band fan back in the 90′s. This was one of those songs that really didn’t get a lot of play but that I really loved, so I thought I would cover it for day 3. Enjoy…. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download “Grace is Gone” by Colin [...]

For day 2 of my challenge, I decided to do a song that I’ve loved and played for many years. The song originally appeared on the 1963 album, ‘The Freewheelin Bob Dylan’. For this version I decided to slow down the tempo just a bit, fingerpick the acoustic, and although the original recording has harmonica, [...]

Hunger Strike, by Temple of the Dog is one of those songs that I’ve always really loved, but I never really had an excuse to learn it. I thought that it would be a great song to kick of my 30 day challenge. I did a really simple acoustic guitar arrangement and a lead vocal track as [...]

One of the things I’ve discovered in life is that if you don’t make time for the things that are important to you, then they can easily fall by the wayside. I’ve been a musician for my whole life. Recently I’ve also become a dad, a husband, a business owner… These things are important. But, [...]

For the past few years I’ve been playing bass for several of the bands that I’m affiliated with and I’ve been using a fairly decent Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass. Throughout that time period I was pretty rough on the old girl and the bridge in particular had sustained a lot of wear.  Most of the chrome had [...]