Strong advice from two powerful forces in the music industry helped Clark Absher steer his career along the right path, that, along with some musical genes and natural talent. “Travis Tritt was here for the Kentucky Derby. I went up, introduced myself and I said, 'I'm not going to bug ya, but I always like asking people at your level of music. What could you give as words of encouragement that you could pass onto me?’ He says, 'Man, Never pass up an opportunity.' I got the chance to interview Irv Woolsey, which, of course, is George Strait ’s manager. I asked him the same question, and he said, he had to pause for a second, ' Clark, I gotta tell you man, be humble.' So if you can be humble and explore every opportunity and not let one pass you by through the years you can at least say, 'Yknow what, I tried my best, 100% every time.' You can't go back and say, 'That one summer I could have tried harder.' Just really stay persistent and being humble at the same time.”

While working on his career, Clark also worked at Coyotes in Louisville, Kentucky. “It was kind of weird, got the job on my birthday, and started working there two days after. I met some really cool people there. My good friend, Eric Wiegel, took me under his wing and showed me a lot of things about the business and how things operated from the venue side. We started doing this interview thing called On the Bus with Clark Absher. One of the guys that worked there came up to me and explained the whole concept to me and said, 'Tomorrow you're going to be interviewing Steve Holy'. I'm thinking, 'Uhh uhh, oh, all right. That's cool.' I'd never done anything like this in my life, it was uncharted waters for me, but I'm always up to a challenge. I've gotten to interview some really cool people. I kind of utilized the whole interview thing, I got to go on a their buses and see how that works out. It was really fun.”

Clark was brought up singing in St. Louis, Missouri, “Both my parents are music majors.. So I sang at church, sang at nursing homes around the holidays when I was a kid. It's always kind of been there, but never something I thought I would have tried to take to the next level. When I was about twenty, I was playing ice hockey for university of Louisville, in the last game of the season, and I broke my leg. I'd gotten a guitar about a month before that. I was laid up on the couch for about six months and I taught myself how to play guitar. That was pretty much how I got into playing full time. I was never really big into poetry or writing, so it wasn't like I had all these poems and decided to put music to them. I think it was just one of those things you challenge yourself to do. I was playing the guitar and I didn't know a lot of chords. I started writing a little bit here and there; the first couple songs were interesting to say the least. The more you do it the more you fine tune things and the better you get at that. I started writing a lot and recorded my first album and things really began to take off after that.”

Even though music ran through his veins, his parents still were a bit skeptical, “I think at first they were a little hesitant, which they probably still are at some stages.” But Clark understands their concern, “It's a hard field to get into and there is so much competition. There's not anything promised. You go to college, you get a business degree and you follow the steps of that. You’ve got some guarantees. With music there is no guarantee.”

He continues, “For me personally, I just have to do it. The lifestyle is different than most. Not to say that's a good or bad thing. I think the music chooses you as much as much as you choose it. You just have to be willing to take that step because there's so much competition and it's a very big broad field to try to establish yourself in. Taking that step and knowing the adversity is going to come, I kind of thrive on it. I like to be doubted sometimes. I like a really good challenge. Some people, that’s not their alley, but I love it.”

Clark is currently working on his sophomore album with producer Joel Timothy, “He’s a great artist himself.” Clark says of Joel, “He thinks outside the box a lot and we compliment each other well. I wanted the next album to be something fun, upbeat, and something you could listen to all the way through and not want to change because every song sounds the same.”

“I've always kind of like strived to make my music my own. I listen to a lot of different artists maybe pull one thing that I really like, maybe an instrument or the way they came into a bridge or verse or however it is. That's where the artistic side, I think, comes out and everybody is hearing a lot of different kinds of things and then interpreting it their way and making it their own.”

Clark tried his hand recently at acting, appearing in the last episode of Southern Bells, a show airing on Soapnet, but for now, music remains his inspiration. “I've had someone tell me that the more open you are the more it's going to reach out to somebody.” He says, “You look back and you think, if it took me a year and a half to make one song and I hear one person tell me how much it touched their lives or changed their life, it's totally worth it. We're given a gift and music is a gift that not everybody has. For me to be able to share that gift with other people and touch lives or change lives is something you really can't put a price on. It just goes back to staying humble. I love to be able to do that but in the same sense I just do it because I love it. I have a passion for music; I have a passion for writing songs.”