Song · Gary Clark Jr.
“This Land” by Gary Clark Jr.
From the album This Land (2019)
“This Land” by Gary Clark Jr. appears on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2019 and 2025. It was first released in 2019 on the album This Land. Its best result is #3 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #150 alternative song of 2019.
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"This Land" is the title song of Gary Clark Jr.'s fourth studio album, sent out as the lead single in January 2019, and it arrives seething. The spark was personal: a neighbor who kept asking who lived on Clark's 50-acre spread in Austin, Texas, and wouldn't accept that a Black man owned the place. Woody Guthrie shares the writing credit, and the lyrics are shot through with nods to other songs and to American culture at large, all turned into a furious answer.
Musically it rides a reggae-style vamp, Mike Elizondo's bass synth throbbing under Brannen Temple's drums while Clark rips blues licks out of a Gibson SG run through a César Díaz amp and a Marshall cabinet. Clark produced it with Jacob Sciba, and it won him Grammys for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 11 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019 | 89 |
| 2019 | 3 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2019 | 90 |
| 2019 | 30 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019 | 103 |
| 2019 | 45 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2019 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 957 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 821 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2024 | 867 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 75 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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