Music Deaths in 2018: Roger Clark Drummer on "Family Tradition"

From the May 28, 2018, Chicago Sun-Times."

Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Roger Clark, a legendary drummer who contributed to the Muscle Shoals sound died May 24 at age 67.  He worked with FAME Recording Studio and Wishbone Recording Studio in the 1970s and 1980s, playing on albums by Lou Rawls, Paul Anka, Tom Jones and others.  He played drums on the song "Family Tradition," the breakthrough 1979  album by Hank Williams Jr..  That album and song are among my all-time favorites.

His first paying gig was at age 14 and then he went to work in studios in Muscle Shoals and Nashville.

The Alabama Music Hall of Fame says he drummed on more than 30 gold and platinum albums and toured with the Steve Miller Band, Journey and the Pointer Sisters among others.