W. C. Clark (born Wesley Curley Clark on November 151939 in Austin, Texas) is a legendary musician known as the "Godfather of Austin Blues" for his influence on the Austin blues scene since the late 1960s. W. C. was raised in his native hometown of Austin, where he sang gospel in the choir as a young boy. In the early 1950s at age 14 he first learned the guitar, and then later experimented with blues and jazz on the bass guitar. By the early 1960s, he began attracting the attention of such Texas blues performers as Big Joe Turner, Albert Collins and Little Johnny Taylor. In the late 1960s, he joined the R&B Joe Tex Band, and left Austin, where he thought the R&B scene had died. But during a tour with the band back through Austin, W.C. sat in on bass with younger Austin locals Jimmie Vaughan and Paul Ray at an East Austin club. After the session playing with Vaughan and Ray, W.C. changed his mind about Austin. He left Joe Tex

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