Country music veteran John Conlee is set to take the stage at Haute Spot in Cedar Park, bringing a catalog of working-class anthems and Grand Ole Opry pedigree to the fast-growing Williamson County suburb. Tickets for the show start around $29.15, according to event listing information.
The concert, first detailed by CultureMap Austin, is scheduled to take place at Haute Spot, located at 1501 E New Hope Drive in Cedar Park. Conlee has released 11 albums over the course of his career, and between 1978 and 2004 he charted 32 singles on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, according to Wikipedia, including seven No. 1 hits such as “Lady Lay Down,” “Backside of Thirty,” “Common Man,” and “Got My Heart Set on You.” His most recent studio release, “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus,” came out in 2004.
Conlee’s signature breakthrough came earlier, in April 1978, when “Rose Colored Glasses” reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Co-written by Conlee and George Baber, the track was the most commercially successful single for ABC Records that year, per Wikipedia, and it inspired the trademark souvenir sunglasses Conlee has handed out at concerts ever since.
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Conlee was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1981, becoming the Opry’s first newly inducted member in over five years at the time, according to a Facebook post detailing his career. He has performed regularly on the Opry stage for more than four decades since…