'Cowboy' Jack Clement Dies

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Source: ABC News

"Cowboy" Jack Clement, a producer, engineer, songwriter and beloved figure who helped birth rock 'n' roll and push country music into modern times, died Thursday at his home. He was 82.

Dub Cornett, a close friend of Clement's, said his hospice nurse confirmed Clement passed away surrounded by family after declining treatment for liver cancer.

His death came just months after he learned he would be joining the Country Music Hall of Fame, a fitting tip of the hat to the man whose personal story is entwined with the roots of modern music like few others. He was to be inducted at a ceremony this fall.

"I've been walking around for the last hour thanking God for the privilege of knowing Cowboy Jack Clement," singer Marty Stuart said in an email. "He was one of my dearest friends. To know the Cowboy was to know one of the most original people to ever walk the Earth."

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Country music legend Cowboy Jack Clement dies at 82.

NASHVILLE — Whimsical maverick Jack Clement — singer, producer, ringleader, writer of classic songs, discoverer of stars and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame — died this morning at his Nashville home. He was 82, and suffered from liver cancer.

Known as "Cowboy Jack" in spite of his avowed dislike of horses and his propensity for wearing sneakers and Hawaiian shirts, the Country Music Hall of Famer leaves a singular legacy. At Sun Records in Memphis, he was the first to record Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison. In Nashville, he brought Charley Pride to popular attention and desegregated country music in the process.

He wrote and produced historic records for best friend Johnny Cash, and he produced what many believe to be the highlight of the much-vaunted Outlaw Movement of 1970s Nashville, Waylon Jennings' Dreaming My Dreams. He conceived and produced what was likely country music's first story-oriented "concept album": Bobby Bare's A Bird Named Yesterday, released in 1967. He arranged the horns on Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire.

Clement schooled studio protégés Garth Fundis, Allen Reynolds, Jim Rooney, Mark Reynolds and David Ferguson, men who who went on to work with Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, John Hartford, Nanci Griffith, Crystal Gayle, John Prine, Iris DeMent and others. Clement wrote Just Someone I Used to Know for Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton. He co-produced Angel of Harlem and When Love Comes To Town for international supergroup U2.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/08/08/country-music-legend-jack-clement-dies-at-82/2632309/

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1. Cross gently, Jack

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2. Jack was the real deal

He was without peer.

I just wish he would not have allowed Garth Brooks and Nancy Griffiths to fuck up the scene.

There are a whole lot of people out there who should thank their lucky stars that their paths crossed Jack's.

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3. I was in his studio in Nashville. I was there during the cutting of a demo.

The studio was in the upstairs of his house. The ceiling of the studio was painted like a blue sky peppered with white clouds. It looked like it was done in a glossy paint.

I never heard a bad thing about him. He was well liked in the industry.