In desperation, I gave a demo of "Nobody's Home" to a record promoter named Sammy Alfano and told him to make something happen. "I had been trying to get a manager all through the years. "My throat was really feeling the strain," Black told The Houston Chronicle. However, the final piece of the puzzle came together once this music landed in the lap of management bigwig Ham.
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According to a separate, early-1990 Houston Chronicle piece, Black also "used to sing for free at picnic tables in Bear Creek Park."īut while performing in Houston clubs, Black met guitarist Hayden Nicholas the two men hit it off creatively and started writing original tunes. However, he also pursued music, spending six years honing his craft "as a solo country-folk singer on the Houston lounge circuit" the Chronicle noted, playing pubs, bars and nightclubs. Prior to diving into music, Black worked as a construction worker, bait cutter and fishing guide. This was no hyperbole: According to a May 1989 Houston Chronicle concert review, Black - who was sandwiched between the Bellamy Brothers and Buck Owens that night - "cuts the figure of a spirited prairie songster" and performed "a set of Texas modern cowboy music that crossed the polarities of George Strait and the Wagoneers." "I told him George Jones and Merle Haggard kept it alive just long enough for George Strait to come along and save it." However, Clint Black gravitated toward country "when George Strait and Reba McEntire turned country music around," his father said. I think he could sing opera if he wanted to," the elder Black explained at the time. Indeed, in GA Black's eyes, son Clint's versatility set him apart: "He liked everything so much, he just really didn't know what he wanted to do. He wrote his first song when he was 14, but I don't think he'll ever record it. "He started playing the harmonica, and then he started singing along with the songs on the radio. "When he was about 14, I guess that's when I first noticed that he had a great voice," Black's father, GA Black, told The Houston Chronicle in July 1989.
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