COUNTRY LEGEND CLEMENT’S HOUSE AND STUDIO DESTROYED BY FIRE
Revered country singer/songwriter and producer COWBOY JACK CLEMENT’s fabled Nashville, Tennessee studio was destroyed by fire at the weekend (25Jun11).
The blaze also claimed the musician’s home.
No one was injured in the fire, which is believed to have started in the attic above the studio, and Clement was able to retrieve his favourite guitar, a Gibson J-200 acoustic he purchased in 1951.
CMT.com reports other instruments, memorabilia and master recordings were lost in the blaze.
Clement mixed classic recordings by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison in Memphis, Tennessee before becoming a staple in Nashville in the early 1960s.
He discovered Charley Pride and produced the singer’s first 20 albums. Clement later produced albums by Cash, Waylon Jennings and Louis Armstrong and many others. In 1988, he produced tracks for U2’s Rattle and Hum album.
He also wrote hits for Cash, Pride, Jennings, George Jones and Ray Charles, among others.
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