Friday September 25
Cowboy Jack Clement
with Marley's Ghost
at White Horse Black Mountain
8:00 pm
The Most Famous Musician You Never Heard Of......
Tonight's show is a rare treat....an opportunity to hear a fine songwriter and performer
...who happens to be a Nashville legend and among the most knowledgeable persons about the people and places at the center of an American art form.For more than half a century, Jack Clement has found himself surrounded by some of the world's greatest singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists. This was no accident. His brilliance was recognized early on by Sam Phillips whose Sun Records studio was the cradle of rock 'n' roll, and over the years top new talent has been drawn to Jack's door and has followed him like the mythical Pied Piper.
Jack Clement is a visionary maverick with a career which included song publishing, music and film production, a record company and recording studios and amassed 16 BMI award and 25 gold records
along the way. He produced records at the legendary Sun Records studio in Memphis where he helped launch the careers of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.Clement would go on to work with most of Nasheville's top stars including Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride, George Jones, Roy Orbinson, Ray Stevens, Doc Watson, John Hartford, Hank Williams Jr, and others. He was also sought out by musicians from outside the confines of Nashville such as U2, Louis Armstrong, and Townes Van Zandt.
While best know of his work producing and writing hits of Nashville stars,
Clement also had a successful career of his on as a performer and recording musician.Clement talks about helping to launch the career of Jerry Lee Lewis
- So, Jerry Lee came back, and sure enough, he played something like Chet on the piano -“Wildwood Flower" and I enjoyed it. I thought it was real nice, but it wasn't what you would want to make a record out of, you know, when Rock and Roll was king. At that point country music, the bottom had kind of dropped out of country music. The only person I can recall that was sort of hot country right then, was George Jones.So Jerry Lee did that instrumental bit on the piano. I said, "What else you do?" He said, "I play mostly country." At that time he was playing in a little ole place in Ferriday, Louisiana. He would play the piano with his left hand, and the drums with his right hand, and he had another guy playing bass with him, or something, and that was it. I said, "Do you know any Rock and Roll songs," and he said "No". He said "I'll learn some". I said, "Why don't you do that".
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Watch Jack Clement on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-mHKueL_UI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRa73GT_xQ
