Jerry Jeff Walker

Inevitably, this trend raises the question about such lyrics, are they poetry? No particular reason for the emergence of softer pop music, emphasizing words, can be advanced except that it follows a period of louder pop that emphasized sound in one of pop music's recurring cyclical changes.

Recording companies have been pushing the latest singles of two young songwriters, Jerry Jeff Walker and Laura Nero.

by running the complete texts of their songs in full-page advertisements in the music trade papers.

Similar promotion has been given to several new message songs about the summer in the slums by James Brown, Spanky and Our Gang, and The Sparks.

The song was the lead track on the album he recorded live at the Lookin' Back Dance Hall in Lookin' Back, Texas.

Jerry Jeff Walker is one of those gems of country music from the 1970s.

A little bit of traditional country music and a little bit of outlaw music.

Sadly, Jerry Jeff Walker passed away in October of 2020 at the age of 78.

I opened the set with a duet from Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton called Rockin' Years from 1991.

The song was number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs record chart for both Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton.

you know? Yeah, that makes sense.

You mentioned Jerry Jeff Walker, and I know that y'all had quite the association.

What did it do for you in 73 when he records Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother, which, of course, you'd written?

Well, it gave me a middle name.

We did the whole thing on our own in Austin.

And then this manager got involved, Jerry Jeff Walker's manager, and they kind of rejected what we had done.

They said the record company, they were dealing with Warner Brothers, and they said, something about the studio then sounds too bassy or something we were naive so instead we went to nashville and recorded well it wasn't near as good as what we did and basically i produced that record in austin and got everybody together and looked over the sessions and then we went to nashville and got ripped off by this manager he he was getting a kickback from the studio and you know all kinds of shenanigans were going on and then which was fine if it sounded okay but it didn't right it's like this guy you know didn't even do the real vocals raised vocals they were just scratch vocals and he kept them and we're going what the what the hell it's a vocal album the vocals and good.

And you just had a real interest in the studio and becoming a producer or an engineer.

Then Elin Jewel's album, Get Behind the Wheel, we heard the song Alive.

Then a famous old tale, a Jerry Jeff Walker composition called Mr Bojangles, heaps of versions over the years.

This particular take on it comes from Steve Earle, taking off his respectful tribute to Jerry Jeff, which he released in 2022.

It's called Jerry Jeff.

We've lost Jimmy Buffett.

We've lost Jerry Jeff Walker.

Yes, that's a long list.

Just keep going, Bob, but I did bring it up for a reason.

This is something I randomly ran across two days ago, and I just wanted to share it.

I know there's a lot of Buffett fans, a lot of Jerry Jeff Walker fans.

Even if you just casually know about the two of them, it was – I learned something here in this.

It's a random video that was posted on – you know, sometimes you – this is Instagram.