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NEWS 2008-10[2004-7 Archive]Clicking logos takes you off this site for further info March 2, 2010 Long-awaited new album from Seattle-based band Marley's Ghost produced by Cowboy Jack Clement, who also makes a guest vocal appearance. Sides were cut on both the Left and Third Coasts. Jack will join the boys for a concert here in Nashville on April 29 at the BELCOURT THEATRE.
January 31, 2010 There's often a Cowboy connection when they hand out the trophies for folk/country/Americana music. This year congratulations go to Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy for their tribute album to Townes Van Zandt, for whom Jack was the first publisher/producer and lifetime friend and mentor. TOWNES won the Grammy for best Contemporary Folk Album. Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Contemporary World Music Album went to Bela Fleck, who took engineer Dave Sinko to Africa with him to record the soundtrack to the documentary THROW DOWN YOUR HEART. Dave worked many years at the Sound Emporium (formerly JACK CLEMENT RECORDING STUDIOS) under Cowboy's old engineer Garth Fundis. Pictured above is the actual Grammy presented for spoken word interviews about the CLASS OF '55 from 1986 for which Jack was essentially music director, singing background, and playing guitar. He's credited in the album notes as one of "three great producers", along with Chips Moman and Sam Phillips, partying on the Big Train from Memphis
September 23, 2009
A national tour ranging from North Carolina to California with the Seattle-based band Marley's Ghost to celebrate the release of their Clement-produced new album kicks off at Nashville club 3rd and Lindsley. See calendar link at left for subsequent stops. Jack even sings one on the new album.
September 15, 2009 Première edition of THE FRIENDS OF COWBOY NEWSLETTER appears, owing to efforts of editor, Niles Clement. A great mix of contemporary happenings and historical highlights from this legendary career, sign up to get your copy hot off the web on our home page and see what you missed on the archive page.
August 24, 2009 Producer Allen Reynolds was presented with the Dale Franklin Leadership Music Award along with Garth Brooks, his most successful artist (ok, anybody's most successful artist). Allen had been part of Cowboy's crew since the early 60s in Memphis, went to Beaumont with him as part of Tap Room scene, migrated back to Nashville to be business manager of JMI Records and write for Jack Music, then started out producing one of the other writers, Don Williams, in the early 70s. From the Leadership web site Allen is standing next to Jack at this picture from the ceremony. Also pictured Garth and Trisha, Jim Foglesong, Martina McBride, Kathy Mattea, Crystal Gayle, Steve Wariner, Garth Fundis, John Conlee
[photo: Steve Lowry]  Allen and Jack, 1960s
August 7, 2009 Jim was living in his motor home when he pulled into Nashville sometime around 1976. Jack Clement took a chance on the newcomer and gave him free rein in his studio although Rooney, despite notable contributions as a folk singer, club manager, Newport Folk Festival booker, and Woodstock Mud Acres denizen, had had precious little experience working the faders. He found himself enrolled in Cowboy's College of Musical Nonsense. The rest, as they say, is his story:
Read Jack's bio written by Jim about 20 years ago.
The Americana Music Association proudly announces that Jim Rooney will receive the Lifetime Achievement for Producer/Engineer award at the 8th Annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, scheduled for Thurs., Sept. 17 at the historic Ryman Auditorium. In a career spanning more than 50 years, veteran Nashville producer Jim Rooney's elegant musicality has established him as a most vital player in Americana music. Perhaps best known for his Grammy-nominated albums with John Prine, Iris DeMent, Tom Paxton and Peter Rowan - as well as his work on Nanci Griffith's Grammy-winning Other Voices, Other Rooms - Rooney's contributions as an engineer, musician, producer and songwriter have graced close to 150 albums to date.
August 2, 2009
In 1956, Jack and Billy wrote and recorded some sides which got them hired by Sam Phillips as engineer and artist respectively for Sun Records. Billy never got the fame and fortune he deserved, partly eclipsed by the attention paid to other artists on the roster.
July 23, 2009 Charley Pride, whose history-making career was launched and guided by Jack Clement over two decades, went to the White House to meet and perform for President Barack Obama. Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley also played, and NPR covered the story [ listen ]. In fact, it was the second time in 3 weeks that "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone" was played on Weekend Edition, since it was included as part of the segment on Tanya Tucker's new country classic covers album. BTW, T. is guest hosting an hour of the Cowboy Jack Clement show on Sirius Radio this weekend.
June 15, 2009 Musical Renaissance Man Elvis Costello met up with Jack at BMI in Nashville recently. He was in town as part of a current tour with his bluegrass supergroup, The Sugarcanes (Stuart Duncan, Jim Lauderdale, Jerry Douglas, Dennis Crouch), to play the Ryman Auditorium. Also, dropping by the Cowboy Arms was veteran character actor Barry Corbin (Dallas, Northern Exposure, No Country for Old Men)
May 18, 2009 Jack performing a free show Thursday 7:00 pm at Overton Park Bandshell, an outdoor stage where Elvis made his first appearance before a concert audience on July 30, 1954. see the pics
April 28, 2009 8th Annual Ponderosa Stomp Festival celebrating the Unsung Heroes American Music on Two Stages for Two Big Nights including Wanda Jackson, James Burton, and The Remains as well as Cowboy. The internationally revered Ponderosa Stomp is an American roots festival which traditionally takes place between the two weekends of the city's world-famous New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. see the pics
April 19, 2009 Music City, Inc. today announced the sixth class of inductees to the Music City Walk of Fame, presented by founding sponsor Gibson Guitar: Dr. R.H. Boyd, Cowboy Jack Clement, Mike Curb, Marty Stuart, Josh Turner and CeCe Winans. The honorees will be recognized officially with the unveiling of commemorative sidewalk markers on Sunday, April 19, beginning at 2:30 p.m. in the Hall of Fame Park in downtown Nashville. The induction ceremony, which is sponsored by Great American Country (GAC), is free and open to the public. Created in the fall of 2006, the Music City Walk of Fame, on Nashville's Music Mile, is a landmark tribute to those from all genres of music who have made significant contributions to preserving the musical heritage of Nashville and have contributed to the world through song or other industry collaboration. With the induction of this new class of honorees, there will be 37 total stars along the Walk of Fame.
March 29, 2009 Cowboy crosses the pond once again to emcee and play an Elvis Unlimited-sponsored festival at Værket Randers, Denmark commemorating the chance convergence of four stars for an impromptu jam in 1956. Jack had the perspicacity to record it, even though the tape ended up getting lost for 30 years or so. From an issue of The Man & His Music magazine: "Set for release this year by BMG (or possibly FTD) is a repackaged version of the famed Million Dollar Quartet recordings. This will come from a much improved tape source and, for the first time, feature the material in its correct sequence. It will also run approximately 12 minutes longer than previous releases. December 4th 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic session, when Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash joined together for the first and only time for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis".
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March 12, 2009 Sidekick Alamo Jones (aka Chance Martin) from The Cowboy Jack Clement show on Sirius Radio has a smokin' new single out Checkout his web: http://www.alamojonesmusic.com/
March 5, 2009 Cowboy and his band, including the Bluegrass Elvises - Shawn Camp and Billy Burnette - ride again Nashville music club 3rd and Lindsley Thursday at 8 along with The Jay Patten Band. Billy and Shawn co-wrote the George Strait single "River of Love" #1 at Radio & Records, #3 at Billboard. Click here for map
February 17, 2009 The writer of "When I Dream", a standard Jack has championed through the years (it appeared on his 1978 album as well as the hit version by Allen Reynolds-produced Crystal Gayle), is having a release party for her latest CD OUT THERE AND IN HERE at the Bluebird Cafe [map] at 6pm. Get more info about Sandy at her myspace
November 21, 2008 Jack and his merry band featuring Bobby Wood, Shawn Camp, The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band w/ Leroy Troy, and a host of others take to Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadour Theatre stage Friday evening at 8 . More info here.
October 19, 2008 One of the projects Jack has been working on over the past year is a new album for veteran Americana band Marley's Ghost. The latest of their previous recordings - SPOOKED - was produced by Van Dyke Parks (The Band, Ry Cooder, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman) with cover art by R. Crumb .
May 8, 2008 Son of a cotton and corn farmer in western Tennessee's Chester County, Eddy liked music better than farm work --- but that did not keep him from working behind a plow. He had his schooling in a one-room frame building where
the only teacher taught all eight grades. The reference book, "Top Country Singles 1944-1993", by Joel Whitburn, ranks him as the No. 1 country singer in terms of overall success on the Billboard charts. His first long play album is pictured above. For what turned out to be his last, After All These Years, he chose Cowboy Jack Clement to be his producer (see entry for Sept 2005 below).
April 27, 2008 Ernest "Pop" Stoneman is the 2008 posthumous inductee, and the ceremony will feature a performance by Donna, Patsy, and Roni Stoneman with their former producer, songwriter, and manager Jack Clement on guitar. read more about Jack, Pop, and Patsy here.
March 31, 2008 Cowboy returns to the Continent for a couple weeks of gigs in Austria and Holland, hooking up with The Watchman band again. He plays the Metropole in Vienna then goes on to Graz and Lenz before a return engagement at The Paradiso in Amsterdam. .
March 16, 2008 Shakespeare Was A Big George Jones Fan will be shown again and Jack will appear "live" for the Nashville PBS fundraiser to discuss the documentary about him and his friends made by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville. The next night Jack's buddies Carl, Roy, Johnny, Jerry Lee, and Elvis will be featured in The Rockabilly Legends.
February 16, 2008 America's second longest running radio show which follows the Opry on WSM 650-AM is hosted by Cowboy Jack Clement. After broadcast, it will be archived here.
February 12, 2008 Cowboy Jack, while still in the Marines circa 1951, used to hang out with Pop and the Stoneman Family at their Carmody Hills, Maryland homestead. His first band included Scott and Jimmy Stoneman on fiddle and bass. He went on to produce Pop and kin for World Pacific, MGM, and RCA culminating in their being awarded CMA Group of the Year in 1967 and Pop's Memorial Album in 1968. To say this was a long time coming is an understatement --- the purpose of Ralph Peer's trip to Bristol in 1927 was to record Pop who had had a massive hit with a song about the Titanic. Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family were among those that showed up for that session --- and commercial country music was born.
February 8, 2008 Country Music Hall of Fame member Charley Pride, whom Jack discovered, financed, wrote songs and produced 15 albums for, receives the Mississippi Arts Commission's lifetime achievement award during ceremonies on February 8 in Jackson, Mississippi. A native of Sledge, Mississippi. Pride is the only performer honored this year during the organization's Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Pride scored 29 #1 singles for RCA during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
January 28, 2008 One of Jack's most accomplished disciples, author and producer Jim Rooney - "an architect of the 'Americana' music genre" - celebrates 70th birthday with a bash at Nashville's Station Inn featuring performances by the Cowboy, John Prine, Nanci Griffith, Iris Dement, and others ably backed by his regular band of Irregulars. An article by Peter Cooper about Rooney appears in The Tennessean to mark the milestone.
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