I listened to Gene Clark because he did two songs covered by This Mortal Coil. I think "Strength of Strings" is bloody marvellous, while "With Tomorrow" is, at least to my ears now, even better than TMCs cover, although I probably wouldn't have said that the first time I heard it.
I knew bugger all about him until I started looking, but found that he was a founder member and major songwriter of/with the Byrds. He's continued to craft music ever since.
He has a website....
http://www.geneclark.com/
...which contains plenty of information should you wish to know more.
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