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County Music Legend Steve Wariner to Play at WKCTC Clemens Fine Arts Center Saturday Night

Paducah, KY (10/24/2018) — Steve Warner has record accolades over his five-decade music career. He has recorded 20 albums, earned fourteen #1 hits, over 30 Top 10 singles, three Gold albums, four GRAMMY Awards, three CMA Awards, one ACM Award and a Christian Country Music Association Award, just to name a few.

The country music star will perform many of his biggest hits this Saturday, October 27 with a solo concert on the West Kentucky Community and Technical College Clemens Fine Arts Center stage. Some of his top-charting hits include "What I Didn't Do," "Heart Trouble" and "Some Fools Never Learn." His star began to shine brighter as his music made its way into television. In 1986, he recorded the theme song for ABC's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning TV sitcom, "Who's The Boss?"

Born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1954, Steve Wariner got his start in music at the tender age of 10, when he played drums in his father's band. Throughout his award-winning career he has worked with music greats such as Chet Adkins, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Brad Paisley.

Proven to be a triple threat; an award-winning artist, musician, and songwriter, Wariner is recognized through his portfolio of work spanning Country, Bluegrass, Rock, Jazz, and Pop as he continues to captivate audiences today with his sensational voice and guitar prowess.

As an award-winning songwriter, he has composed songs for Clint Black("Nothin' But the Taillights"), Garth Brooks ("Longneck Bottle"), Bryan White("One Small Miracle"), and Keith Urban ("Where the Blacktop Ends"), as well as songs for artists such as Country Music Hall of Fame members Alabama, Kenny Rogers, The Statler Brothers, Conway Twitty and Don Williams; pop music icon Peter Tork (of The Monkees); R&B singer Ruben Studdard; bluegrass music's Del McCoury Band, and many more.

He is a member of the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame, the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame,the Music City Walk of Fame, and one of only five guitar players in the world to be given the "Certified Guitar Player" (CGP) award by Chet Atkins.

Get your tickets to Saturday's Steve Wariner concert while they last at artsinfocus.universitytickets.com or by calling Julie Moore at 270-534-3212.

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