Artist Info: Clay Oak

Clay Oak — The Voice Carrying the Past

Ghosts of Me is not fiction. It is memory, filtered through a character built to carry what is difficult to say out loud.

Clay Oak is a musical persona shaped from real experiences, real emotions, and real events — told at a slight distance so they can be faced honestly. The songs do not invent a life. They process one.

The name itself is personal. “Clay” comes from an Americanized form of Claes. “Oak” comes from Eklund (“Ek” meaning oak in Swedish). [read more...]