Cowboy Jack Clement - Guess Things Happen That Way

Here's the second album in 26 years by Nashville's enduring maverick and eccentric - a 73-year-old 'genius-visionary' in the words of some, and 'professional fool' in the words of Cowboy Jack Clement himself.

Guess Things Happen That Way opens with an uptempo version of the Stones' No Expectations that's eventually goosed along by a soul chorus and horn-like keyboards, and includes Cowboy Jack Clement's own interpretations of songs he wrote that others made famous, most notably the great title song and Ballad of a Teenage Queen (both associated with Johnny Cash).

Anyone who writes S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y in this day and age clearly has undeniable love for real country in its various guises, however oddly he chooses to express it, and the accordion-oiled Drinking Carrot Juice suggests he probably doesn't care what you think anyhow.

You've got to hand it to someone who sings like Walter-Brennan-only-carrying-a-tune and plays Dobro so sweet and simple. ~ John Morthland

• No Expectations
• Guess Things Happen That Way w/ Johnny Cash
• There Ain't A Tune
• It'll Be Me
• S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y
• Dreaming My Dreams With You
• Every Place I've Ever Been
• Trapped In An Old Country Song
• Ballad Of A Teenage Queen w/ Johnny Cash
• Drinking Carrot Juice
• Leavin' Is The Lovin' Thing
• Off To See The World