Born Charles Phillip Clark on September 18th, 1930, in Macon, Georgia, USA. Before coming to Australia, Pee Wee Clark was playing guitar on a regular morning television show in the US. Upon arriving in Australia in the late 60s, he teamed up with Reg Lindsay and worked in his band for a number of years. Signed to the Festival label his debut LP 'The Georgia Gentlemen' was released in 1969 followed by 'Hot Tempered Steel' and then the 'Country Jazz' album in which he recorded with Buddy Emmons (an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day). He owned the Dixie record label and recorded an album with his son 'A Touch of Paradise' which was voted ''Instrumental of the Year''by the Australian Playboy magazine in 1979.
Pee Wee assisted Reg Lindsay in running Reg’s country music store in Parramatta. Pee Wee was heavily in demand both as a touring artist and studio musician. In 1979 he recorded an album with Tommy Emmanuel 'From Out of Nowhere'. In 1980 he was inducted into the Tamworth Hands of Fame. In 2012 he was inducted into “The Australian Steel Guitar Hall of Fame”. He died in 2015 aged 85.
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