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re: RIP Jerry Jeff Walker
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:58 am to DeltaTigerDelta
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:58 am to DeltaTigerDelta
Bye jaded lover you undercover queen for a day
This post was edited on 10/24/20 at 11:00 am
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Posted on 10/24/20 at 11:18 am to RedFoxx
Just pickin' up the pieces wherever they fall... 
Posted on 10/24/20 at 12:23 pm to RedFoxx
Posted on 10/24/20 at 1:07 pm to ItzMe1972
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f I could just get off of that LA Freeway..,,
Great song but that was Guy Clark.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 1:17 pm to RedFoxx
Great song but that was Guy Clark.
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Just a few months later, Guy said goodbye to his landlord, left that L.A freeway, and moved to Nashville to accept a new publishing deal. With all the bad memories of L.A in his rearview, Guy also left behind a few cherished ones of his good friend and bass player, “Skinny” Dennis Sanchez. Channeling his mixed emotions of living in California, along with the phrase he wrote on a hamburger sack, Guy wrote the song we know as L.A Freeway.
Two years later in 1972, another songwriter by the name of Jerry Jeff Walker released L.A Freeway on his self titled album. The song quickly became a hit for Jerry Jeff, and brought overnight attention to Guy as a songwriter. By the time Guy released the song himself in 1975 on his debut album “Old No. 1,” he had no problem getting a few new friends like Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris to sing backup on his record
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Just a few months later, Guy said goodbye to his landlord, left that L.A freeway, and moved to Nashville to accept a new publishing deal. With all the bad memories of L.A in his rearview, Guy also left behind a few cherished ones of his good friend and bass player, “Skinny” Dennis Sanchez. Channeling his mixed emotions of living in California, along with the phrase he wrote on a hamburger sack, Guy wrote the song we know as L.A Freeway.
Two years later in 1972, another songwriter by the name of Jerry Jeff Walker released L.A Freeway on his self titled album. The song quickly became a hit for Jerry Jeff, and brought overnight attention to Guy as a songwriter. By the time Guy released the song himself in 1975 on his debut album “Old No. 1,” he had no problem getting a few new friends like Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris to sing backup on his record
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Posted on 10/24/20 at 1:40 pm to REB BEER
More on the early days for anyone interested:
Jerry Jeff Walker has never been one to do what he was supposed to do. A military dropout who scored a Top 10 hit in writing “Mr. Bojangles,” he left New York City for Austin, Texas, long before it was known as the “Live Music Capitol of the World.” And in the summer of 1973, Walker cut an LP, ¡Viva Terlingua!, that helped lay the foundation for the outlaw country sub-genre of country music.
“We had an independent record and we used it to the nth degree. It wasn’t this independent deal where you find a producer, go up to Nashville and record in a studio. We actually applied it to being here, made in Texas for Texas,” says Walker, now 76. “It’s still the quintessential Texas album as far as explaining how it all was before Austin City Limits.”
¡Viva Terlingua! would be a literal soundtrack to Austin’s golden age, with one of its best-known cuts, “London Homesick Blues,” serving as Austin City Limits‘ theme song for nearly 30 years. But the nine-track album, released over 45 years ago, had a greater influence as the high-water mark for the Texas strain of cosmic cowboy music, as well as the template for the modern-day ecosystem of Red Dirt and Texas Country.
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Jerry Jeff Walker has never been one to do what he was supposed to do. A military dropout who scored a Top 10 hit in writing “Mr. Bojangles,” he left New York City for Austin, Texas, long before it was known as the “Live Music Capitol of the World.” And in the summer of 1973, Walker cut an LP, ¡Viva Terlingua!, that helped lay the foundation for the outlaw country sub-genre of country music.
“We had an independent record and we used it to the nth degree. It wasn’t this independent deal where you find a producer, go up to Nashville and record in a studio. We actually applied it to being here, made in Texas for Texas,” says Walker, now 76. “It’s still the quintessential Texas album as far as explaining how it all was before Austin City Limits.”
¡Viva Terlingua! would be a literal soundtrack to Austin’s golden age, with one of its best-known cuts, “London Homesick Blues,” serving as Austin City Limits‘ theme song for nearly 30 years. But the nine-track album, released over 45 years ago, had a greater influence as the high-water mark for the Texas strain of cosmic cowboy music, as well as the template for the modern-day ecosystem of Red Dirt and Texas Country.
LINK
Posted on 10/24/20 at 1:45 pm to RedFoxx
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Great song but that was Guy Clark.
JJW’s cover was a hit for him and is better than Guy Clark’s IMO.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 4:56 pm to JumpingTheShark
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JJW’s cover was a hit for him and is better than Guy Clark’s IMO.
Yes and Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother was written by Ray Wylie Hubbard. Jerry Jeff’s voice added much more character than the original songwriter.
Confederate Railroad had a bigger hit with this one written by Chris Wall than JJW did but JJW recorded it first and much better: I like my women a little on the trashy side
Posted on 10/26/20 at 12:28 am to DeltaTigerDelta
Here is a 1984 hour long interview and live performances TV show called Austin Pickers that Jerry Jeff was on. Great old show.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 8:52 am to REB BEER
quote:Best live album ever, for sure.
Live at Gruene Hall was one of the best albums ever.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 11:45 am to AlxTgr
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Live at Gruene Hall was one of the best albums ever.
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Best live album ever, for sure.
It is timeless...
Posted on 10/26/20 at 12:14 pm to madmaxvol
I was fortunate to see him live at gruene hall on back to back nights a few years ago. I'll never forget it
Posted on 10/26/20 at 3:34 pm to SW2SCLA
Luckily I got to see the JJW 3-4 times over the years. He always put on a fantastic live show. One of my favorites of all time. RIP Gonzo
Posted on 10/26/20 at 4:34 pm to RedFoxx
God dammit!!
Posted on 10/26/20 at 5:53 pm to RedFoxx
I've been bingeing on JJW music the last couple of days.I am amazed what I am able to recall from listening to the music of my youth.
Texas Monthly has a great article with many stories and pictures if you're interested.
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Jerry Jeff was ornery. And we got down to it a few times. I mean, really down to it. But we were brothers in a way, so that goes with the territory. I’ve never met a more resilient, roll-with-the-punches grumpy butt. He just went for it, whatever it was. He was a master of the “Vegas Move” whereby you go for a U-turn on a six-lane highway in full traffic. That was Jerry Jeff. That was his life.
Jerry Jeff was a fearless leader who led us down twisty, turny roads fraught with high adventure. Musically, he was all instinct. He called a great set, there was never a set list. Most songs started with him bashing on his guitar. There was never a count-off. Jerry Jeff was the center of it all and his rhythm was right in the pocket. We were young and green, and right from the get-go it was full-tilt. It all seemed somewhat surreal. The audiences loved the music so much. They loved him. And they loved the band. The joints were always sold out whether it was Billy Bob’s Texas, the Palomino, the House of Blues, or Carnegie Hall. And a thousand more.
But he was ornery. Someone would yell out a request and he would cuss them out right on stage. And the audience would laugh and roar. They expected moments like this. He was everybody’s favorite crazy uncle and got away with a lot. He made sure that no one could tell him what to do. At any cost. In the seventies we toured as Jerry Jeff Walker and the Lost Gonzo Band. We were all on a big record label called MCA. In Boston, the label promo guy had set up radio shows and in-store appearances for us to promote the shows. It was going to be great. Jerry Jeff told them them he wasn’t having any of it. “F— ’em” he said. And he didn’t show. Time and time again. But at the concerts to follow, people were hanging from the rafters going bats–t crazy.
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Texas Monthly has a great article with many stories and pictures if you're interested.
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Jerry Jeff was ornery. And we got down to it a few times. I mean, really down to it. But we were brothers in a way, so that goes with the territory. I’ve never met a more resilient, roll-with-the-punches grumpy butt. He just went for it, whatever it was. He was a master of the “Vegas Move” whereby you go for a U-turn on a six-lane highway in full traffic. That was Jerry Jeff. That was his life.
Jerry Jeff was a fearless leader who led us down twisty, turny roads fraught with high adventure. Musically, he was all instinct. He called a great set, there was never a set list. Most songs started with him bashing on his guitar. There was never a count-off. Jerry Jeff was the center of it all and his rhythm was right in the pocket. We were young and green, and right from the get-go it was full-tilt. It all seemed somewhat surreal. The audiences loved the music so much. They loved him. And they loved the band. The joints were always sold out whether it was Billy Bob’s Texas, the Palomino, the House of Blues, or Carnegie Hall. And a thousand more.
But he was ornery. Someone would yell out a request and he would cuss them out right on stage. And the audience would laugh and roar. They expected moments like this. He was everybody’s favorite crazy uncle and got away with a lot. He made sure that no one could tell him what to do. At any cost. In the seventies we toured as Jerry Jeff Walker and the Lost Gonzo Band. We were all on a big record label called MCA. In Boston, the label promo guy had set up radio shows and in-store appearances for us to promote the shows. It was going to be great. Jerry Jeff told them them he wasn’t having any of it. “F— ’em” he said. And he didn’t show. Time and time again. But at the concerts to follow, people were hanging from the rafters going bats–t crazy.
LINK
Posted on 10/26/20 at 6:44 pm to ItzMe1972
Same. Listened to some lesser known stuff like Good Night for Singing that I probably hadn't heard in 20 years or so.
Also had the song "Wheel" from Viva Terlingua stuck in my head for 2 days. Never knew until I found an article Saturday that said it was inspired by the memory of his grandfather dying in a tractor accident when JJ was 15. It's pretty haunting compared to any other Jerry Jeff song.
Also had the song "Wheel" from Viva Terlingua stuck in my head for 2 days. Never knew until I found an article Saturday that said it was inspired by the memory of his grandfather dying in a tractor accident when JJ was 15. It's pretty haunting compared to any other Jerry Jeff song.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 6:48 pm to ItzMe1972
A lot of people don’t realize that London Homesick Blues is a Gary P Nunn song and that he is actually the one singing it on Viva Terlingua. JJW was the soundtrack of my college and Gettin By was my college experience and for better or worse is probably still my personal anthem.
Posted on 10/27/20 at 3:40 pm to MAROON
Posted on 10/27/20 at 5:37 pm to NickyT
In the late 90's early 2000's we saw him at the House of Blues in NO after the Tulane-Southern Miss game. 1st one in line for the doors to open. We were front row center and I enjoyed this show as much as the other 5-6 times I'd seen him.
After the show, it was slow getting out of there and I happened to start chatting with a fellow on the stage. I had flown in from California for the weekend and he asked where I was from. He said to hang tight, he'd see if Jerry Jeff would chat out by the bus. 15 minutes later he comes and gets us and JJW comes off the bus with a 6 pack of beer and 4 hats and coozies. We shot the shite for 30 or so minutes and he couldn't have been more gracious. Turned my sister and brother in law into life long fans that night.
RIP JJW.
After the show, it was slow getting out of there and I happened to start chatting with a fellow on the stage. I had flown in from California for the weekend and he asked where I was from. He said to hang tight, he'd see if Jerry Jeff would chat out by the bus. 15 minutes later he comes and gets us and JJW comes off the bus with a 6 pack of beer and 4 hats and coozies. We shot the shite for 30 or so minutes and he couldn't have been more gracious. Turned my sister and brother in law into life long fans that night.
RIP JJW.
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