# Grinder guitar solo > The guitar solo on Grinder by Gary Clark Jr. (2019) starts at about 2:28. From the album The Story of Sonny Boy Slim. A rock classic from the 2010s. Canonical URL: Gary Clark Jr., 2019, from *The Story of Sonny Boy Slim*. Solo by *Gary Clark Jr.*. Clark leans on a thick, overdriven tone for a solo that ties Texas blues roots to modern rock weight. Grinder shows Gary Clark Jr. at his most muscular, and his guitar tone is the headline. The sound is thick, fuzzy and heavily overdriven, with real low-end weight, yet his phrasing comes straight from Texas blues with its bent notes and stinging repetition. He does not rush; the solo stalks the groove, letting heavy notes hang before he pushes into a tighter burst of licks. It is a good example of how modern players fuse old blues vocabulary with contemporary rock sound. Listen for the moments where Clark bends a note and lets the fuzz break it apart, turning a traditional blues gesture into something rough, swollen and thoroughly modern. Grinder by Gary Clark Jr. is featured in our Rock (#18) list. The solo is played by Gary Clark Jr. and the song was released in 2019. ## In our lists - [The 25 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/rock/) — #18 - [2010 to Now](https://greatestsolos.com/list/2010s-now/) — #23 - [The Best Gary Clark Jr. Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/gary-clark-jr-guitar-solos/) — #9 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 2019](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-2019/) — #6 ## Sources - [Guitar World: The greatest guitar solos of the 21st century... so far](https://www.guitarworld.com/features/the-greatest-guitar-solos-of-the-21st-century-so-far) — #56 ### Who played the guitar solo on Grinder? Gary Clark Jr. played the solo on Gary Clark Jr.'s Grinder (2019). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)