Music journalist Lucky Clark has been a champion of the blues in central and eastern Maine for 49 years. Although he has never written for a big-city newspaper or a major national publication, for nearly five decades Clark has done everything he could to spotlight blues artists in every one of the multitude of publications he has written for, interviewing blues artists and promoting blues events. Currently, he covers music for the Kennebec Journal and theMorning Sentinel (dailies out of Augusta, Maine, and Waterville, Maine, respectively). Clark is considered a key player in the success of the North Atlantic Blues Festival, and has supported virtually every club that has booked blues in Maine (and parts of New Hampshire) for decades. He has covered B.B. King, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Walter Trout, Odetta, Eddie Kirkland, John Mayall, Coco Montoya, Son Seals, James Cotton, Kenny Neal, Mark Hummel, Mary Flower, Tab Benoit, Sonny Landreth, Big Head Todd, all three members of Saffire — The Uppity Blues Women, Taj Mahal, Charles Brown, Pinetop Perkins, C.J. Chenier, Sue Foley, Koko Taylor, Corey Harris, Shemekia Copeland, Robert Cray, Selwyn Birchwood, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
