Ted Jarrett

TED JARRETT is a graduate of Fisk University whose compositions were first recorded by Nashville's R&B stars such as Gene Allison, Earl Gaines, and Christine Kittrell, and were soon covered by a wide variety of acts including Webb Pierce, the Rolling Stones, Ruth Brown, and Hank Ballard. Still active at age eighty, Jarrett continues to work as a songwriter, producer, artist manager, and label executive. He is at the heart of the Country Music Hall of Fame? and Museum's 2004?05 exhibition and...See more

TED JARRETT is a graduate of Fisk University whose compositions were first recorded by Nashville's R&B stars such as Gene Allison, Earl Gaines, and Christine Kittrell, and were soon covered by a wide variety of acts including Webb Pierce, the Rolling Stones, Ruth Brown, and Hank Ballard. Still active at age eighty, Jarrett continues to work as a songwriter, producer, artist manager, and label executive. He is at the heart of the Country Music Hall of Fame? and Museum's 2004?05 exhibition and Grammy-winning companion CD, "Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945?1970." See less