Bio

Clebo Rainey is an urban western howler, a sojourner from the Civil Rights era and the Beat movement filtered through his own psychedelic experience coming of age in the '60s. He is a bard in the wry fucked-up tradition of Johnny Cash, subjecting himself to a long journey to the end of the night, clear eyed and brutally honest, but without judgment. He has gained the reputation as "Father of the Dallas Poetry Scene"
Frederick Turner says, "Clebo Rainey is a uniquely Dallas version of the prophetic type. What he adds to the tradition is an intimate knowledge of and love of the Dallas urban landscape, an engaging sense of humor and self-mockery, a remarkable tolerance and affection for precisely the people that might fear and reject him, the luck of a strong constitution that can endure with gusto the lifestyle, and an intelligence and ironic insight that will not accept easy answers."