Jim Clark

My band, The Near Myths, will release our third CD,  . . . and into the flow,  this spring.  Here is a YouTube video for the final song on the album, "There Never Was Time," based on a poem by Byron Herbert Reece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgxMWRk9q0w

Just posted a new slideshow video on YouTube for "One Night Late" which I hope you'll check out: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY4hUKt84HI

First and foremost, The Musicians, most of them my good friends:

Jim Clark                              vocals, 6 & 12-string guitars, banjo,  autoharp, harmonica, pennywhistle

Phil Valera                           bass, organ, piano, keyboards, percussion

Terry “Teep” Phillips       lead guitar

Katy Adams                        vocals

Matthew Adams               drums

Pattie Hopkins                   violin

John Wright                        recorders

Mike Hamer                        hammered dulcimer

The Service of Song

                                                            For this is the service of song:

                                                            To brighten the dim

                                                            Coin of a kingdom whose king

                                                            Lies centuries asleep,

                                                            To render the humblest thing

…

Check out these two slide-show videos on YouTube:

I Go by Ways of Rust and Flame     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWy6iFy28Q

The Stay-at-Home     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8_eeFpsy9Y&feature=related

Hooray! Jim Clark's second solo CD, The Service of Song, featuring musical settings of poems by the north Georgia "farmer-poet" Byron Herbert Reece, was officially released on November 22, 2010.