in a mostly blues vein.

BBP is more of a songster - while blues is the majority of his lexicon, he's fluent in early Black country styles as well.

Clark is more from the 'guitar hero' school of blues-rock.

But keep in mind that blues is mostly a dead genre at this point, and has been for 40 years with a few exceptions... he's not musically that much different at this point from Joe Bonnamassa, Johnny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd or anyone else who gets celebrated as the next big blues thing but is really playing music that's just more Blueshammer than Blues. Hopefully he'll get better - I'd love to see that - but the historic pattern doesn't lend me too much hope.

So the idea that Clark should even have a 'spot' should be taken by someone else is kinda silly to me, like having a 'spot' for Dixieland or something. If I had my druthers there'd be a revival of interest in old Okeh sides instead of a media buzz of enthusiasm generated largely by the attitude that 'yeah, he's not that good, but there isn't really anyone better.'

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so I'm in a band now:
album ---> http://greenwoodburns.bandcamp.com/releases
Soundcloud ---> http://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns

my own stuff -->http://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband

avy by buckshot_defunct