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Chris Clarke and Dane Terry

Sound description

Country-fried acoustic blues, sans grass but with extra hot sauce.

RIYL

Cephas and Wiggins, Woody Guthrie, Ralph Stanley, T-Bone Burnett, Berkley Hart, Zapf Dingbats, Plow, Nickel Creek

Inception

San Diego , 2012

Influences

Bill Monroe, Delmore Brothers, Tom Waits, Slaid Cleaves, Sonny Terry, Son House, Zapf Dingbats, Plow, Coyote Problem, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Nickel Creek, Junior Wells, Charlie Musselwhite, John Lee Williamson, Aleck Rice Miller, Walter Marion Jacobs, Walter Horton, Muddy Waters

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Based in Kensington, Chris Clarke and Dane Terry are a country-blues duo, performing pre-war blues, Americana, folk, and contemporary eclectic selections, as well as originals. Clarke and Terry previously played together in Zapf Dingbats, who were nominated for having the Best Blues Album at the 2012 San Diego Music Awards.

Born in 1969 in Richmond, Virginia, Chris Clarke comes from a family of musicians. His grandfather, J.P. Clarke, was a ragtime piano player in vaudeville, as well as an old-time fiddle, guitar, and mandolin player. His brother and cousin are both performing artists in Virginia. As a kid, Clarke was exposed early on to old-time fiddle and blue grass music at family reunions and pickin' parties. He began writing and playing guitar after seeing Bob Dylan perform with the Grateful Dead in 1986. This experience changed his life forever and served as the compass for his musical exploration for the next few years.

During college in Elkins, West Virginia, Clarke was exposed to the traditional music masters who took up residence at the Augusta Heritage Center -- fiddlers like Ernie Carpenter, Tracy Schwarz, and the country blues of John Cephas and Phil Wiggins. During this time he also studied finger-style blues guitar and developed an ear for writing melodies. While in Elkins, he completed an undergraduate degree in biology and environmental science.

Returning to Virginia in the early 1990s, Clarke lived in a turn-of-the-century log cabin on the edge of the Blue Ridge Parkway and met Jeff Bibb, the founder of Webb Straps. It was through Bibb that Clarke would get his first Flatiron mandolin, have dinner with Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas, and begin his "bluegrass woodshedding" period. Around mid-1990, he finished a Master's degree in biology and worked as a freshwater fisheries ecologist before moving to California.

California brought much change. Clarke was married to his wife, Tiffany, in 2001 and they continue to host a house concert series at their home in Kensington. He met Walt Richards at a mandolin concert and began to study the music and art of the mandolin. Soon after that, Clarke met up with Mike Compton and David Long, and was introduced to Bill Monroe-style mandolin playing. In 2004, Clarke formed the Second Hand String Band and began performing regularly at festivals and venues across Southern California.

Clarke also teaches and plays mandolin, guitar, and upright bass, and performs with the bluegrass band Plow. He has also played with Darren Weiss and Sarah Voytek as part of the Monroe Avenue String Band.

Dane Terry is known for his soulful vocals and powerful harmonica technique, playing American roots music as well as taking inspiration from folk, jazz, country Americana, bluesgrass, early jazz, and blues from the pre-war Delta styles to Chicago blues and the later west coast style.

Among the blues bands he has played with are the Snakedrivers, A 5th of Blues, Jukeville, and Jack City Blues Band. In 2010, Terry collaborated with guitarist Dana Duplan to found the swinging jump-blues band Cadillac Wreckers band, focusing on jazzy blues, swing, and rhythm and blues from the 1930s to the 1960s. Later that year, a full-length called Cadillac Wreckers (on the Grease Punk Studio label) was released.

Terry has recorded with Zapf Dingbats, Chris Clarke, Jeff Bertino and Mike Stubblefield, Jack City
Blues Band, and A 5th of Blues. He has also performed with Jeffrey Joe Morin, Gregory Page, Rusty Jones, Folding Mr. Lincoln, Robin Henkel, Chet Cannon, and others.

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