'Cowboy' Jack Clement: The Nut With The Midas Touch
Martin Hawkins, Melody Maker, 13 October 1979
RECENTLY, the successful Nashville-based record producer and songwriter, sometime singer, and failed movie mogul. Jack Clement, made his first visit to Europe. At the age of 48, this manufacturer of hits for the likes of Johnny Cash and Charley Pride was promoting his own first album: All I Want To Do In Life (Elektra K5126).
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