Roy Clark - Roy's Blues 1975

Roy Clark Roy's Blues Live Perfomance
Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 – November 15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre.

During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life—in Spite of Myself, in 1994.

[friendofbeaver]

Roy's vocabulary of licks wanders dangerously into Jazz in this Blues. He could play anything he wanted to.

[victorhugobrondolofrancoju]

One of my favourites guitarists of all. Sorry for bad English. Greetings from Brazil. 🇧🇷🤘👏

[oldschoolbbass]

Roy playing very similar to Johnny Guitar Watson, Got to meet Roy back in the 70's he was quite a nice guy and showed us his gear on of the most exciting moments of my life. I play bass but have always loved his music.

[johnh.heartland]

What a beautiful hollow body Gibson guitar matching such a talented performer. Mr. Roy Clark

[jeffsmith]

Awesome transition, he went from country of the day and laid down some good blues licks in that performance.

[chuckfreberg]

One of the most amazing instrumental player of his lifetime. And of all time, that not never received the allocates that he truly deserved. I am glad that I was able to enjoy his talent as often as I did. A rare gem 💎 that will be missed by those who appreciated is gift and those who never were blessed with his amazing talent.

[OscarShackleford]

I don’t remember this side of Roy Clark. A pleasant surprise. Amazing musician

[davetrayford]

Could NOT have a better band to back you than the awsome Tonight Show Orchestra under guidance of "Doc" Severenson and Roy was so freakin good anyway!

[stevenraymer]

Great to hear the other side of Roy i forgot all about those things

[JackTheSkunk]

Love Roy's first LP....The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark. And his duet recordings with Joe Pass and Gatemouth Brown.

[JackTheSkunk]

Roy is playing to the cameras here. He usually did his eye rolling thing but this is the only time I EVER saw him doing gymnastics with his mouth.
His Gibson sounded smokin' hot though.

[lisaannkeith]

The Blues & some Country music borders on Swing, & the Blues about how you list your wife, your dog & your mama, but not in that order, of course.

[ethanjs]

There's a Roy Clark video that's not on this channel anymore, it's called "Midnight Cowboy" I can't find it anymore 😩

[bodarville]

Great job on keeping classics available!
Younger people need this as much as accurate history in schools.
What show is this from?

[matrox]

We all know Roy played country, pop and jazz...check him out playing rock.

[charleshyde]

How come you quit putting full episodes of HEE Haw on here ? I know you did it for awhile

[warmflash]

Someone asked Jimi Hendrix how it felt to be the best guitarist in the world? He said “Ask Roy Clark.”

[jeanmillion]

Theres not so many good guitar pickers that has a style... Roy Clark, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, Joe Maphis, Merle Travis, Jimmy Bryant, maybe Carl Perkins...thats about it all