The Clarkes are a husband and wife duo currently living in Temple, Texas. The group adds bass and drums for full band shows.
Brandi Belle Clarke began her fiddle career in a family bluegrass band when she was 16. Before long she was performing in Texas dance halls and attending McLennan Community College’s commercial music program. She spent a few years playing fiddle with numerous acts in Nashville and touring with alternative country bands. Brandi moved back to Texas at the end of 2010 after completing her degree in Composition and Arranging at Belmont University.
Bryce Clarke has been playing guitar since he was 12. For the past decade he has played with various bands across the state of Texas and beyond, including Max Stalling, blacktopGYPSY, Matt Harlan, Miss Leslie, and many more.
The couple met while playing in a Top 40 country dance band. After playing together in numerous bands, Brandi and Bryce went their separate ways for a few years pursuing different paths. They were reconnected, and married at Robert’s Western World, on Broadway, in Nashville, TN in 2010.
In 2012 the couple decided to start their own project under their last name. With influences including Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Uncle Tupelo, The McKay Brothers, Steve Earle, Slaid Cleaves, and years of experience as sidemen, they are now stepping to the front of the stage to play their own brand of Country/Americana.
The Clarkes recorded their debut album in 2013 and continue to play fun parties and honky tonks all over the great state of Texas!
After The Fire Is Gone (Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn)
Always Late-With Your Kisses- (Hank Locklin)
Another Day, Another Dollar (Wynn Stewart)
Another Night Before (The Clarkes Original)
Before She Made Me Crawl (Redd Volkaert)
Big City (Merle Haggard)
Big River (Johnny Cash)
Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain (Willie Nelson/Roy Acuff)
Blue Moon of Kentucky (Bill Monroe)
Blues Stay Away From Me (Various Artists)
The Box It Came In (Wanda Jackson)
Bring It On Home To Me (Sam Cooke)
Bright Lights, Big City (Various Artists)
Buckaroo (Buck Owens)
Bury Me Beneath the Willow (The Carter Family)
Bury the Bottle with Me (Darrell McCall)
Come Sundown (Bobby Bare/Kris Kristofferson)
Corrina, Corrina (Bob Wills)
Crazy Arms (Ray Price)
Cry, Cry, Cry (Johnny Cash)
Dallas (Jimmie Dale Gilmore/Joe Ely)
Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones)
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, & Loud Loud Music (Various Artists)
Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright (Bob Dylan)
Drivin Nails In My Coffin (Ernest Tubb)
Drinking For Three (The Clarkes Original)
End Of The Line (Bob Wills)
Faded Love (Bob Wills)
Fourteen Carat Mind (Gene Watson)
Give Back The Key To My Heart (Doug Sahm)
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
Hey Good Lookin (Hank Williams Sr.)
Here In Frisco (Merle Haggard)
Holding Things Together (Merle Haggard)
Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells)
I’d Have To Be Crazy (Willie Nelson)
I’ll Fly Away (Various Artists)
I Gotta Get Drunk (Willie Nelson)
I’m A Lonesome Fugitive (Merle Haggard)
I’m Over You (Keith Whitley)
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams Sr.)
I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)
It’s Not Love, But It’s Not Bad (Merle Haggard)
I Saw The Light (Hank Williams Sr.)
It Never Rains In Southern California (Trent Summer/Albert Hammond)
I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
Jole Blon (Various Artists)
Knoxville Girl (Louvin Brothers)
Lily Dale (Bob Wills)
Long Black Limousine (Wynn Stewart)
Long Black Veil (Lefty Frizzell/Johnny Cash)
Love’s Gonna Live Here (Buck Owens)
Life In Prison (Merle Haggard/The Byrds)
Lying Eyes (The Eagles)
Lonesome 77203 (Hawkshaw Hawkins)
Lodi (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Love Is Blind (The Clarkes Original)
Made In Japan (Buck Owens)
Making Believe (Kitty Wells)
Mama Tried (Merle Haggard)
Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly)
Mental Revenge (Waylon Jennings)
Milk Cow Blues (Bob Wills)
Maiden’s Prayer (Bob Wills)
Made of Coal (The Clarkes Original)
Mockingbird (The Clarkes Original)
Nadine (Chuck Berry)
Ol’ Slewfoot (Porter Wagoner)
Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line (Waylon Jennings)
Orange Blossom Special (Johnny Cash)
Playing With Fire (Rolling Stones)
Please Please Baby (Dwight Yoakam)
Please Help Me I’m Falling (Hank Locklin)
Ride Me Down Easy (Billy Joe Shaver/Bobby Bare)
Rock Salt and Nails (Various Artists)
Rocky Top (The Osborne Brothers)
See The Big Man Cry (Charlie Louvin)
Shelly’s Winter Love (Merle Haggard)
She Thinks I Still Care (George Jones)
She Wore Red Dresses (Dwight Yoakam)
Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard)
Six Days On The Road (Dave Dudley)
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (John Prine)
Streets of Baltimore (Gram Parsons/Bobby Bare)
Sugarfoot Rag (Hank Garland)
A Song For You (Gram Parsons)
Steel Guitar Rag (Various Artists)
Take Me Back To Tulsa (Bob Wills)
Take Me Home Country Roads (John Denver)
Thanks A Lot (Ernest Tubb)
That’s How I Got To Memphis (Tom T. Hall)
They’re Hanging Me Tonight (Marty Robbins)
Tiger By The Tail (Buck Owens)
Today I Started Loving You Again (Merle Haggard)
Truck Driving Man (Various Artists)
Tulsa County (The Byrds)
Tupelo County Jail (Webb Pierce)
Trouble In Mind (Various Artists)
The Hard Way (The Clarkes Original)
Walkin (Willie Nelson)
I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water (Stonewall Jackson)
Wayfaring Stranger (Various Artists)
Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show)
Walking The Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb)
Waltz Across Texas (Ernest Tubb)
White Freightliner (Townes Van Zandt)
Wreck Of The Old 97 (Vernon Dalhart/Johnny Cash)
Westphalia Waltz (Various Artists)
Wrapped (Bruce Robison/George Strait)
Who’ll Buy The Wine (Charlie Walker)
When You Say Nothing At All (Keith Whitley/Alison Krauss)
You Ain’t Woman Enough (Loretta Lynn)
Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams Sr.)
You’re Still On My Mind (George Jones/The Byrds)
You Ain’t Going Nowhere (The Byrds)
You Met Me In A Honky Tonk (The Clarkes Original)
