Fletcher Clark
Lockhart, Texas, United States | SELF
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As producer/engineer: Steven Fromholz, Rose & Judy, Bobby Bridger, Uncle Walt's Band, The Phil Woods Quartet (Grammy winner), The Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet, The Almost Brothers, Kenneth Threadgill, Lindsay Haisley, Ed Vizard and dozens more. As session player: scores more. As artist: the album It's All Balcones Fault, and his collection Taking Turns.
Fletcher taught audio production at Austin Community College for ten years, training scores of young engineers.
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Fletcher’s songwriting is influenced by the Texas singer-songwriters for whom he has been sideman or producer (Steven Fromholz, Bobby Bridger, Rusty Wier, Gary P. Nunn, Dee Moeller, Rick Beresford, Kenneth Threadgill, Bill & Bonnie Hearne, et al) - as well as by his love of jazz, Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, blues, R&B, rock, folk, bluegrass, country & western, latin, etc. Long ago his Texas show band, Balcones Fault, brought all these musics together for scores of sold-out shows at Austin’s legendary concert hall Armadillo World Headquarters.
In 2010, Fletcher brought Armadillo Records and Armadillo Music (ASCAP) back to life by recording Hank & Shaidri Alrich with Doug Harman for the critically acclaimed Carry Me Home (Armadillo CD 1001). (While in its formative years Fletcher had been Business Manager for the Armadillo, it was Hank who created its studio and label and guided the whole shebang to its successful, albeit, early conclusion.)
Later that year, Fletcher completed Taking Turns (Armadillo CD 1002), a collection of twelve of his songs recorded by twelve different artists and ensembles, using Austin’s best session players and engineers. It features performances by Shaidri Alrich, Tommy Elskes, Craig Toungate, Michael Durbin, Mady Kaye, Denim, Shake Russell, Beto y los Fairlanes, Greezy Wheels, Elizabeth Wills, Rose Kimball & Judy Painter, and Lindsay Haisley. And some memorable contributions from the late Tony Campisi. Turnabout being fair play, Hank brought this project to fruition as Executive Producer, remarking, “There’s just not been another project like Fletcher Clark’s Taking Turns. Now that’s Austin music!”
In late 2011, Armadillo Records released The Cobras Live & Deadly (Armadillo CD 1101). Recorded live at the old hall in 1979 though never released, now finally mastered and packaged as a CD, it is already the all-time best label seller at Antone’s Records in Austin. As managing partner, Fletcher continues to guide the development of an approach to production and dissemination that shortens the distance from creator to consumer, with the highest regard for sonic quality. Follow this at ArmadilloMusicProductions.com.
Now in Lockhart just south of Austin, Fletcher produces and hosts two successful series there for songwriters: Evenings with the Songwriter at the historic Dr. Eugene Clark Library (EveningswithSongwriter.com), complemented by Evenings of Song in concert at Gaslight-Baker Theatre (EveningsofSong.com). And he is pursuing his nascent career as singer-songwriter.
He continues to act as producer/engineer, where his experience on both sides of the glass ensures any artist a more effective and productive recording project. As a consulting audio engineer, he offers (through his company) Sound Advice for nascent recording artists and entrepreneurs in the design and appointment of recording studios and live venues.
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