RIP Jerry Jeff Walker

Hot Jerry · 10-24-20, 08:00 PM

Rip jjw

funnyb25 · 10-24-20, 08:01 PM

Damnit... RIP Jeff

Mr KLC · 10-24-20, 08:01 PM

Buckandadime · 10-24-20, 08:03 PM

RIP Mr. Walker..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUGCdTVpug

gauchojake · 10-24-20, 08:16 PM

I grew up listening to this stuff.

If you like the outlaw country stuff, check out the Mike Judge series on Cinemax called Tales the Tour Bus. It's freakin awesome. Haven't made it through the whole series yet but the ones on Johnny Paycheck and Waylon Jennings are super.

stake1 · 10-24-20, 08:39 PM

2020 sucks. Rip to the legend

BigJay · 10-24-20, 08:43 PM

I went to his birthday bash in Gruene, Texas a few times. Great time. I’d rather listen to his generation of country music any day than whatever that stuff is they play today.

RIP JJW

Bostongambler · 10-24-20, 08:43 PM

RIP

pablo222 · 10-24-20, 08:49 PM

Great singer and songwriter. RIP

BigJay · 10-24-20, 08:54 PM

Originally posted by gauchojake

I grew up listening to this stuff.

If you like the outlaw country stuff, check out the Mike Judge series on Cinemax called Tales the Tour Bus. It's freakin awesome. Haven't made it through the whole series yet but the ones on Johnny Paycheck and Waylon Jennings are super.

They are all very good. I think the one on Jerry Lee Lewis is my favorite but I love The Killer.

I grew up near Austin in the late 70s and 80s where the Outlaw movement began. Great time to be there.

hawkwind · 10-24-20, 09:02 PM

RIP

stake1 · 10-24-20, 09:22 PM

Kix Brooks credits “JJW” for getting him his big break. They don’t make guys like the legend anymore and now the Brooks and Dunn “Ballad of Jerry Jeff Walker” brings a tear to my eye

stake1 · 10-24-20, 09:25 PM

BuckyOne · 10-24-20, 09:32 PM

RIP / my favorite was pissin in the wind!

JIBBBY · 10-24-20, 10:11 PM

Almost made 80.. Solid life. Next..

Jerry Jeff Walker, singer who wrote 'Mr. Bojangles,' dies at 78

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/jerry-jeff-walker-singer-who-wrote-mr-bojangles-dies-78-n1244643

The Texas country singer and songwriter emerged from New York’s Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s and was a founding member of the band Circus Maximus

Mike Huntertz · 10-25-20, 10:35 AM

Mr. Beau Jangles a classic.

Judge Crater · 10-25-20, 09:56 PM

DAVID BROMBERG:
This is really a true story, you know, a lot of people have heard the song, and... Well, at least, Jerry Jeff tells me it's a true... true story.I played guitar with Jerry Jeff Walker for about two years and we... we did this song every night for two years., and I never got tired of it. Jerry got a little tired of it -- at night, after the clubs would close, we'd do horrible things to it...
'Twas a true story, he... this guy, Bojangles, was a... he was a street dancer in New Orleans, and what he'd do, he'd go from bar to bar and... he'd put money in the juke box, or get somebody else to do it... And then he'd either dance or pantomime the tune. And for that, people would buy him drinks and get him pretty drunk, and then he'd go on to the next bar, and the next one, until it was closing time... and then he'd go on, the next night. After a few nights of this, he'd end up on the corner, and the cops would pick him up and then take him to the drunk tank -- this is where Jerry Jeff met him.
Jerry Jeff wasn't there on a research project -- I mean, the way I got that story, I may have that wrong, but the way I got that is that he propositioned the right woman at the right time and the wrong place -- and her husband, the bartender... called the cops, and they took Jerry to the... Parish jail. And he and this guy just talked for three days in the cell about what've you got...