Clampit wrote 11 songs this year. He said he's not that creative on tour, but now at home he’s had time to write. His tours range from country dance halls to a stint in Las Vegas. Country Music Television played Clampit's song “Local Girl and Cowboy” in the early 1990s. 

   Clampit began his music career playing gospel with his family, and moved on to play professionally with a band named “Willie Dee and Wild Childs.”

   His father stopped playing after he lost a finger, and Clampit said he and his brother got a double dose of music once their father stopped playing. Clampit and his brother Bil played together ever since. Bil contributed with vocals or playing an instrument on all of Clampit’s albums.

   Clampit said he and his brother are freelance musicians, meaning no one owns them. He received the chance to sign a Nashville contract back in the 1970s, but said after serving in the Vietnam War, he did not have the desire to be owned again.

   Clampit gives a spiritual approach to music and has some gospel in each album as well a full gospel album. ABC World News Now recently used his song "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven," and Inspiration Network of North Carolina will use it in the near future.

   Clampit said he hopes to back on the road again in a few years, touring with his new songs and waiting for his big break.

   “(Playing music’s) a wonderful feeling. (It) doesn’t cost nothing other than my time and energy; you can do it in public with your clothes on, with somebody or by yourself; and it ain’t illegal,”  Clampit said.