Music Master Legend Cowboy Jack Clement Headlines Feb.16 Midnite Jamboree
Cowboy Jack Clement—the man whose music everyone loves—will star on the historic Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree stage and radio show Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Texas Troubadour Theater on Music Valley Drive in Nashville. Free and open to the public, the show is broadcast on WSM-AM 650 immediately following the Grand Ole Opry.Now heard on Sirius Satellite Radio each Saturday and Sunday as host of his own program, Clement is the composer of such worldwide hits as "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen" and "Guess Things Happen That Way", first made famous by Johnny Cash; the Porter Wagoner-Dolly Parton classic, "Just Someone I Used To Know"; and Waylon Jennings' trailblazing "Let's All Help The Cowboy Sing The Blues."
Millions more fans know Clement through the award-winning albums he's produced or co-produced for Jennings, Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charley Pride, Doc Watson, John Hartford, Townes Van Zandt and rock giants U2. He also produced a stunning album for jazz Hall of Famer Louis Armstrong.
Clement is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Americana Music Assn.'s Lifetime Achievement Award, the first artist-in-residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame and possibly the only picker on Music Row to have earned his living as a ballroom dance instructor. He launched Charley Pride's and Don Williams' careers and, in 1972, filmed a "movie" to illustrate Williams' "Come Early Morning," thus creating a "music video" over a decade before MTV.
Held in the 400-seat theater beside the Ernest Tubb Record Shop on Music Valley Drive, the Midnite Jamboree is the second oldest continuous live radio show in America, having started in 1947. (The Grand Ole Opry is the oldest.) Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Visit Cowboy Jack on the Web at: www.cowboyjackclement.com