John D Clements' musical influences go back to his early childhood listening to the radio with his grandfather to Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, and other country artists of the day. The influences of bluegrass, string bands, and gospel quartets are part of the reciepe. Throw in the folk era of Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, The Kingston Trio, Peter Paul and Mary, and mix with the rock and roll era started by the King himself in the 50s and the other great Sun recording artists. and sprinkle in the contemporary singer song writers like Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, the late Townes Van Zandt and Ray Charles and you have a great american musical stew to satisfy a variety of musical palates.

John's original songs range from blues, country, folk ballads and wry humorous tales told thru music. The classic themes of country music and blues about unrequited love and ill fortune and good times recur in his writings.

John is the creator of a genre of blues he self styles as "Suburban Blues". Suburban Blues have a slightly different subject matter than that found in traditional blues, i e love gone bad, although John does acknowledge that love can go bad in suburbia. The initial suburban blues is about a man who goes out and can't get the right kind of wine at his local tavern and the title song of his first CD "i DON'T WANT NO CHARDONNAY'.
John's original songs I CAN'T MOVE ON and BROADWAY HONKY TONK BAR are also on the " I DON'T WANT NO CHARDONNAY" CD. John has written a number of songs including: THE 401K BLUES, BLUE IN LOVE WITH YOU AGAIN, BREAKING & ENTERING,  I'VE BEEN RODE HARD, THE RIVER IS DARK, THE THINGS I MISS, TROUBLE,  THANKS FOR BEING YOU, I WROTE A SONG ABOUT YOU, YOU DIDN'T TELL ME, THE HIGHWAY, YOU CAN'T STOP LEAVING ME ALONE, I KNOW WHEN THEY START.....and others.
John has played  in many of Birmingham's popular acoustic venues entertaing patrons and friends with his oriiginal songs and popular blues, classic country, folk and alt country. John has appeared at the The Veranda on Highland, Moonlight Music Cafe in Hoover,  Gable Square Saloon, The Oasis, Otey's, The Sazerac Bar, Ciao Bar in Grill, Local Color in Springville, Oak Hill in Birmingham and others. He has also performed at the prestigious Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival in Orange Beach, Alabama, and has appeared on writers' night at the Commodore Lounge in Nashville, and The Lake Toxaway Coummunity Center in Lake Toxaway, NC.
John debut'ed , LOS ALAMOS, at the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival in November 2005. "LOS ALAMOS' is a haunting ballad about the town where the Manhattan Project developed the first nuclear weapon amid an ancient indian culture. 
John's song, The Brave Young Boys, is based on the story of a young man who was killed in 1944 when his plane went down in New Guinea in the South Pacific in World War II, but whose body was not discovered until 2006. He was brought back to Alabama for burial next to his father. John played the song to a packed audience at the Lake Toxaway Community Center in Lake Toxaway, NC on Memorial Day weekend 2007and received a standing ovation.