Born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, Clay has a birthright to the best of American music. His travels throughout the South and Southwest have provided poignant images and influences for his songs. His own compelling style reveals a cool blend of country, rock, folk and the blues.

After fostering his career in the late eighties during his college years in Tucson, Arizona, he returned to Oklahoma City in 1991 and formed the country-rock band The Hillbilly Love Gods which earned him many awards including the Oklahoma Gazette's "Songwriter of the Year" in 1993 and 1994, "Best New Band" in 1993 and "Band of the Year" in 1994. He has since opened for or picked with many great artists including Guy Clark, Nancy Griffith, Robert Earl Keen, Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Georgia Satellites, David Allen Coe and others, playing all across the country in coffeehouses, roadside honky-tonks and college fraternity houses alike. He is a regular at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, The Sutler and the
Broken Spoke and returns annually for the Terlingua Chili Cookoff, the Oklahoma City Arts Festival and Opening Night. Clay has also performed at the Crossroads Music Festival in Memphis, the Tom Mix Festival in Guthrie, Oklahoma and the Kerrville Folk Festival with brother John, and was the first place winner of the 2001 Mountain Valley Arts Council-Southeastern Songwriters' Festival.

His latest effort, "Tumbleweed" is a stripped down, no nonsense personal insight into his life since moving to Nashville six years ago. With great guest artists like Guy Clark, Jo-El Sonnier, Verlon Thompson, Suzi Ragsdale and Tommy Spurlock, Tumbleweed is sure to be a favorite among Americana fans everywhere.