Somewhere there’s some college kid at a bar listening to a band when he should be home studying or getting a head start on that term paper. That kid is probably a lot like Clay Thrash was, beginning a long journey that calls him to the point of obsession despite his family’s best efforts to see him into a ‘respectable profession’. “I remember going to every show I could, Reckless Kelly on Tuesday, Cooder Graw on Thursday, Wade Bowen on Friday and Cory Morrow on Saturday would be a hell of a week and other wise unproductive.” Clay explains. “That was how it all started, some freshman kid sneaking into bars soaking up a different kind of knowledge”, he says with a laugh.
He spent as much time as he could soaking up that knowledge listening to Country greats like George Strait and Merle Haggard to Americana singer/ songwriters like Ryan Adams and Hayes Carll. “I loved anything that was good” joked Clay “I didn’t limit myself to any one kind of music and I still don’t. I like to take the best of everything and make it my own.”