This Austin bluesman has released a lot of albums over his career, but this is probably the best. The songwriting (by John Hiatt, Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson, Dan Penn and others) is top-notch, and Clark sings with the relaxed understatement of someone with nothing left to prove.
 - Texas Music (Winter 2005)

Moving through a catalog that ranges from gutsy soul ballads and blistering shuffles to soothing blues is no mean feat, yet 64-year old singer-guitarist W.C. Clark does it with passion and conviction. You might say this Austin, Texas native is a musical uniter: He delivers a mix that brings together rockers, frat boys and R&B-revue lovers in a sweltering dance-floor frenzy. Building on a career that includes stints with Chitlin’ Circuit fixture Joe Tex and guitar wizard Stevie Ray Vaughan, the blues drenched soul man has quietly garnered praise for his intense shows and a passel of WC Handy Blues Awards with one for his songwriting.
Clark’s chops are in full effect on his summer release, Deep In The Heart (Alligator).
Expect this belated NYC CD-release party to showcase crackling fretwork, trenchant vocals and funky rhythms – making it seem, at least for one night, that we can be one nation under a groove.
 - Don Palmer, Time Out (New York, NY) September 30 - October 7, 2005

WC Clark has a classic rough-and-tumble voice, leavened with molasses and steeped in Memphis soul, and is a fine electric guitarist who sizzles on rollicking Texas roadhouse blues or horn-drenched jump blues. Clark’s sterling new CD Deep In The Heart (Alligator) is loaded with original nuggets like the soul ballad “Promises” and cool covers of Gatemouth Brown, Joe Tex, and John Hiatt.
 - City Pages (Minneapolis, MN) September 15, 2005

Texas is our nation’s deepest and richest musical melting pot, where genres merge and mingle in endlessly varying hybrids. W.C. Clark is one of its zestiest embodiments.  This release (Deep In The Heart) make it five strong albums over the last decade from the longtime godfather of the Austin blues scene-he’s making up for lost time.
 - Gold Mine (Iola, WI) July 8, 2005

“If blues is played right,” says Austin, Texas native W.C. Clark, “it makes your soul feel clean.”
Clark’s mix of modern Texas blues, searing guitar, and heartfelt, Memphis-style soul vocals have made him a favorite of blues and R&B fans alike. The Houston Chronicle said Clark is “one of Austin’s most pervasive live performers…he is a powerful and poignant soul man with hard-earned blues wisdom.”

Before he began releasing albums in 1986, Clark was often referred to in the local press as Austin’s Best-Kept Secret. Between the overwhelmingly positive media attention, the popular notoriety, the bigger and better tours, the secret was out.
 - Kalamazoo Blues News (Kalamazoo, Michigan) May 2005

Known as the “godfather of Austin blues scene,” Clark mixes horns and soulful vocals with his Texas guitar. An urban six-string slinger, Clark has his backwater blues give way to the electrified cityscape; Wesley Curley Clark has found his niche.

While his recorded output has been modest-four albums to date-Clark’s influence is larger than his vinyl fingerprint. Austin’s red carpet for the blues has W.C.’s insignia stamped upon it. – Pieter Hofmann (Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada)
 - Dirty Linen (Baltimore, MD) Dec 2004/January 2005