{"id":148949,"date":"2025-10-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=148949"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:20:27","slug":"joy-clarks-heart-and-soul-music-acoustic-guitar-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/joy-clarks-heart-and-soul-music-acoustic-guitar-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Clark\u2019s \u201cHeart and Soul\u201d Music | Acoustic Guitar Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Joy Clark\u2019s Heart and Soul | Acoustic Guitar Sessions\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eA3u_xyLIq0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When she was a kid, singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/joyclarkmusic.com\">Joy Clark<\/a> wanted a guitar, boots, and a horse. \u201cThose desires were central to me,\u201d Clark says. \u201cI knew the guitar was gonna be key to me becoming the person that I am today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark was raised in Louisiana, and when she wasn&#8217;t singing in her family\u2019s church, she was teaching herself how to play Boyz II Men melodies on her pawn shop guitar. As she grew up and felt less welcome in the church as a queer woman, Clark found solace in exploring the guitar, \u201cit was my best friend, it still is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spending time in New Orleans lead Clark to adopting an open-minded approach to songwriting. \u201cI cut my teeth in New Orleans, playing with people like Cyril Neville, so I was playing a lot of funk music\u2014and I came from the church. [My music] can be a little bluesy at some points, rootsy at others. I want to make a new genre called Heart and Soul music, that&#8217;s how I describe it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a recent tour through California, Clark stopped by the <em>AG<\/em> offices, Gibson J-45 in tow, to share three songs from her debut album (on Ani DiFranco\u2019s Righteous Babe record label), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/joyclark.bandcamp.com\/album\/tell-it-to-the-wind\"><em>Tell it to the Wind<\/em>:<\/a><\/strong> \u201cShimmering,\u201d \u201cGuest,\u201d and the title track, \u201cTell it to the Wind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/joy-clark-jl_2.jpg?resize=900%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/joy-clark-jl_2.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/joy-clark-jl_2.jpg?resize=333%2C500&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/joy-clark-jl_2.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/joy-clark-jl_2.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/joy-clark-jl_2.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent tour through California, Clark stopped by the AG offices, Gibson J-45 in tow, to share three songs from her debut album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"On a recent tour through California, Clark stopped by the AG offices, Gibson J-45 in tow, to share three songs from her debut album.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1532,1533],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1542],"class_list":["post-148949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-singing-videos","category-acoustic-singer-songwriter-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Joy-Clark-Session-small.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1542,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"joeystringletter-com","display_name":"Joey Lusterman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d62788a8fb3719a625c95a649fc05b0d673d8921c9f2491f0a36cc588ee3c452?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Lusterman","first_name":"Joey","job_title":"","description":"Opinionated creative slash beginning guitarist. 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