{"id":479977,"date":"2018-12-17T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770296"},"modified":"2018-12-17T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:53:46","slug":"watch-gary-clark-jr-perform-night-time-is-the-right-time-on-acl-new-years-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-gary-clark-jr-perform-night-time-is-the-right-time-on-acl-new-years-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gary Clark Jr. Perform \u2018Night Time Is The Right Time\u2019 on \u2018ACL\u2019 New Year\u2019s Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gary-clark-junior-acl-new-years.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Gary Clark Jr. leaves behind his guitar to perform a smoky rendition of \u201cNight Time Is the Right Time\u201d in this exclusive clip from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/austin-city-limits\/\" id=\"auto-tag_austin-city-limits\" data-tag=\"austin-city-limits\">Austin City Limits<\/a><\/em>\u2018 upcoming ACL Hall of Fame New Year\u2019s Special.<\/p>\n<p>The performance of the R&amp;B classic was part of a tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ray-charles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ray-charles\" data-tag=\"ray-charles\">Ray Charles<\/a>, who released his hit version of the song in 1959. The guitar virtuoso lets his singing abilities shine on the performance, with Clark Jr. backed by a trio of vocal powerhouses, Ruthie Foster, Carolyn Wonderland and Shelley King. Clark previously played \u201cNight Time Is the Right Time,\u201d guitar in hand, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-willie-nelson-gary-clark-jr-s-night-life-tribute-to-b-b-king-from-acl-191131\/\"><em>ACL<\/em>\u2018s B.B. King tribute<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/acltv.com\/2018\/12\/17\/5th-annual-acl-hall-of-fame-ceremony-airs-on-new-years-eve\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ACL Hall of Fame New Year\u2019s Special<\/a>, airing December 31st on PBS, also features tributes to Marcia Ball and Los Lobos. Norah Jones, Clark Jr., Boz Scaggs, Irma Thomas and Robert Randolph are among the special\u2019s performers with Chris Isaak on board as host. The fifth annual ACL Hall of Fame special taped October 25th at The special hour, taped October 25th, 2018 at Austin, Texas\u2019 Moody Theater.<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the 44th season of Austin City Limits opened this past Saturday with an episode highlighted Khalid and Mac DeMarco. 2019 will see episodes dedicated to Trombone Shorty &amp; Orleans Avenue, Arctic Monkeys, Willie Nelson and Buddy Guy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gary-clark-jr-night-time-is-the-right-time-acl-770296\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Clark Jr. leaves behind his guitar to perform a smoky rendition of \u201cNight Time Is the Right Time\u201d in this exclusive clip from Austin City Limits\u2018 upcoming ACL Hall of Fame New Year\u2019s Special. The performance of the R&amp;B classic was part of a tribute to Ray Charles, who released his hit version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 13:05:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}