Jerry Jeff - RIP - caught him live , by chance - in Luckenbach one random Saturday night; absolutely captivating. Saw him multiple times, and he always brought it; he will be missed.
I happened to be an Aussie sailor posted to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo TX when he came through on a tour with the Lost Gonzo Band. It was a wonderful concert and I collected a lot of his CDs (and that one famous Hondo Crouch cassette). I didn't know he had passed until I saw your comment. A great loss.
I first heard Jerry Jeff as a junior at San Diego State in 1976. I was never a C&W fan but the man started my conversion. I wore the grooves out playing this LP. I'm still not a total acolyte with regard to country music but I could listen to this man till the cows come home.
Never much cared for country music but Jerry Jeff was phenomenal. I remember when his Riding High album came out. Seemed like everyone in my small town had that album. It was playing at every party you went to. God bless Jerry Jeff Walker. He's playing with all the greats in Rock and Roll Heaven now
I am a native Austinite the last time I saw Jerry Jeff live was at a rattlesnake roundup I believe in Round Rock in early 1990s. Here's a very unique songwriter and singer. Viva Terlingua.! Rest in peace Jerry Jeff
Jerry Jeff singing this great Guy Clark song changed my life; it opened my ears to a new kind of music, and has made by life richer. Seen Jerry Jeff, Guy Clark, Gary P., Joe Ely, over a hundred times over the years, but it always comes back to this song ... this great vocal and arrangement. God Bless JJW!!
off the wall talent like JJ was undoubtably lost on Dinah's audience but it's great to see old clips like this from back in the day. Love Jerry Jeff and all the great "outlaw" country artists...
I have seen JJW many times being here in Oklahoma and, seen him in TX too. HAs always been one of my favs. Turned my kids on to him many years ago and they too still love his music. Nothing like it for sure.
Thanks for the post. Love this guy - used to sing this song with a friend and it always put a smile on our face. By the way, did anybody notice that JJW had to substitute "little suckers" for "sons a bitches" @ 1:52? Guess back in 78' it was a no no. He should have pulled an Ed Sullivan Show/Jim Morrison.
From the opinion of an average guy in Texas. I grew in Texas, hearing a certain kind of music. This was, and is good country western music. Best sight I've ever seen is welcome to California in my rearview mirror. Edit because fricken spell check.
Saw him live Singing on the Battle Ship Texas at the Texas 150th Anniversary at the San Jacinto Battleground! Just he and his guitar! I’m so glad Jerry Jeff came to Texas ! He helped creat a unique country music sound . RiP JJW . Oh and the concert to my amazement I’d here on you tube!! Couldn’t believe it .
Bought that lp 50 years ago :saw him in a club in phila. He loved Susan, and was blessed with what every performer needs/ a real smash #[ to pay the bills in the valleys
Saw JJW in 1980 @ Cain's Ball Room in Tulsa. Was $8.50 a head and standing room only and he was fantastic! A little late getting on stage but we got really baked; the smallest beer was 16 oz and everyone was passing joints around. Had a great time> Don't know how ;) he stayed on stage for so long
aint this song the truth just like all of jerry jeffs music. just let it all go baby and lets get on down the road. all we need is each other. nobody says it better than jerry. a beautiful song and rockin ending. it dont get no better.
In the 70s we called this "alternative country" (RIP Armadillo World Headquarters and Threadgills), in the 80s it was "Outlaw country" thanks to Waylon, Willie, and Tompall Glaser, since then we've just called it "Texas Music"
This really takes me back to my childhood. THANKS for posting this video. He double live album "A Man Must Carry On" is one of my favorite all time recordings. I've had the 8 track, the cassette, the recod and the CD. Now it's on my iTunes. Love this guy!
I met Jerry in the 70's through a mutual friend.. Very nice guy .. I was also born in the same hospital at the same time as Dinah Shore's daughter Melissa Montgomery.. Actually dad knew Dinah from the industry.
"...little suckers that always bore me ..." vs SoB's - ha,ha!! Nice job Jerry Jeff. Yeah, that was TV in 1984 for you! This is a great, classic song. Introduced to me by my buddy Lonnie Keifover the summer of 1977 while working in the uranium mill in Jeffrey City Wyoming ... hmmm, I never thought about the connection to Jerry Jeffrey City until now. Wow, what memories!! BTW the spelling is, Mark Knopfler. That's a pretty good comparison. They're both great guitarist/singer/songwriters
Austin.. I can't deny Johnny Bush and his singing ability, but guys like Jerry Jeff write and perform their own songs and songs for other artists to sing . Jerry was also a great guitar player. He's really apart of the whole story telling style similar to alot of Willie and Robert Earl Keen songs. It's funny because I wasn't really a fan at first now I love it.
I was shocked to have learned that Jerry Jeff WAlker passed away almost a year ago already. I had heard nothing at all, how was this missed. He left some legacy of great music, and I even bought his Mr. Bojangles on a 45 when I was a kid. Sorry - rest in peace.
I discovered Jerry Jeff Walker when I went to see Tom Waits in Detroit and J J W opened. An odd pairing but it was a great show. Late 70s? Didn't listen to country before that show but loved JJW after, that voice still makes me happy, even on the sad songs. Try Todd Snider they even do Mr Bojangles together.
Who's that guy playing the grand piano? Is it? Yes, it is my wife's brother, Reese Wynans 7 years before he hooked up with Stevie Ray and Double Trouble!
Have you heard Jerry Jeff's 1972 album version? It does justice to the original. In fact, it is the first released version. Walker is the artist who put Guy Clark in the spotlight. youtu. be /i2zE9cot3jY?list=PLC0E74D4D0D6803CA
Hi Dave, Reese has been working as a session player in Nashville for years and has racked up quite a collection of Gold and Platinum records. He had a lot of success with Brooks and Dunn. Reese also does some Blues Sessions most notably Tab Benoit and got a platinum CD for his work on Kenney Wayne Shepherd's Trouble Is...He sent that one to me one Christmas for the wall in my home studio where he has done some of my songwriting demos.
In the late 70s and early 80s before I joined the service. JJW was the man to have at your SPJST Lodge and (Many) was the night I danced to him there (Centerville) or at the Texas Hall Of Fame Club in BCS or even Lake View Club with "Joe Stampely"
Thank you ALL for the tips, to follow. I'm checking them out ..but isnt' there just "something" about Jerry Jeff Walker. I'm smitten! LOL ;) thanks again!
@inatizzy2 Yes he wrote it. Once you write Mr. Bojangles...you have no apologies to make...a song of this calibre...earns you a "get out of jail free card" for life....Mr. Bojangles...is top tier...it may get as good but it never gets much better.
Sorry to say but Clark really captures the soul of this song via his singing.this version looks like Jerry is in real hurry to leave la without being killed or caught. 😂😂😂. Nonethe less Jerry is great.
Wow. The Dinah set-up with Norman Fell, preceding JJ's performance, is about as off-pitch as a Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn delivery. "Dandy" Don performs the necessary intervention seamlessly to save the day and reveal a facet of his musical tastes at a far remove from his crooning of "The Party's Over" in the Monday Night Football booth. Apparently, so I gather from the conversation, Dinah had DM as her guest host for the week, and he must have championed JJ's appearance on the show. DM's excitement at JJ's appearance is clearly genuine. Like an improvised play on the gridiron, the ball-handling (song-handling) sequence goes something like Guy Clark to Jerry Jeff to Meredith to Dinah to Norman Fell, who nearly fumbles, back to Meredith and finally to Jerry Jeff and his guys who take it into the end zone with that performance. Thanks, Dinah, for taking a chance with something/someone different. And thanks, Don, for championing this great singer-songwriter-performer. (BTW, I can't say for certain, but the applause at the conclusion sounds bogus to me. It sounds "juiced," and, what's worse, the dufus at the sound dials tramples the ending of the performance.) Most of all, thanks, Jerry Jeff, for going into the foreign country of daytime talk tv and deliv'rin' the goods. And a shout-out to Mark Singer for posting this.
Actually Mully, JJW wrote Mr Bojangles from an experience he had in jail. Correct me if Im wrong but I do believe he wrote it. He IS a great song writer.
To think that Jerry Jeff Walk Walker was on the Dina Shore show . Hard to believe. At this time Jerry Jeff Walker hadn't quite achieved his Texas troubadour style and persona., But it's great, anyway!
I am pretty sure he is on there from begging and pushing from Dandy Don. Doubt Dinah and her gang of of producers even knew (or cared) who JJ even was. She was probably booking whomever was the popular musical equivalent of the homogenized "idol/voice/amerca's got shit" at the time. ;-)
Agree Zertrat, By the way he is from Maine. Anyone to not know or appreciate JJW is too young or stupid to appreciate outlaw country. I grew up on JJW, Merle, David Alan Cole, Willie, and Waylon. Everyone else are just wannabes.
Bobby Rambo is the lead guitarist and harmony singer. He played with Jerry Jeff on Contrary to Ordinary, Jerry Jeff and Too Old to Change. Reese Wynans is the piano player, Tomas Ramirez is the sax player, Ron Cobb is the bassist and I think Freddie Krc is the drummer.
Produced 2 concerts with Jerry Jeff ,but this ain't the Lost Gonzo Band , need to find a better version! Just like Jerry Jeff does a better version of MMMurphy's Cosmic Cowboy ,then anyone ; but cannot find a video of it ....with decent sound and video too!
man this guy can get me off so well ... jerry jeff and a 12 oz steak, tequila, and the open spaces... i should have bought more land and less freeway...
I love it but I have to believe Dinah's audience had to be thinking "What the hell is this?". I love his live versions of this better than the studio cut....much better when up tempo!
Jerry Jeff - RIP - caught him live , by chance - in Luckenbach one random Saturday night; absolutely captivating. Saw him multiple times, and he always brought it; he will be missed.
I happened to be an Aussie sailor posted to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo TX when he came through on a tour with the Lost Gonzo Band. It was a wonderful concert and I collected a lot of his CDs (and that one famous Hondo Crouch cassette). I didn't know he had passed until I saw your comment. A great loss.
I first heard Jerry Jeff as a junior at San Diego State in 1976. I was never a C&W fan but the man started my conversion. I wore the grooves out playing this LP. I'm still not a total acolyte with regard to country music but I could listen to this man till the cows come home.
Never much cared for country music but Jerry Jeff was phenomenal. I remember when his Riding High album came out. Seemed like everyone in my small town had that album. It was playing at every party you went to. God bless Jerry Jeff Walker. He's playing with all the greats in Rock and Roll Heaven now
I am a native Austinite the last time I saw Jerry Jeff live was at a rattlesnake roundup I believe in Round Rock in early 1990s. Here's a very unique songwriter and singer. Viva Terlingua.! Rest in peace Jerry Jeff
This is my favorite version of this song. "If I get off of this LA freeway, without gettin' killed or caught..." Been there.
Jerry Jeff singing this great Guy Clark song changed my life; it opened my ears to a new kind of music, and has made by life richer. Seen Jerry Jeff, Guy Clark, Gary P., Joe Ely, over a hundred times over the years, but it always comes back to this song ... this great vocal and arrangement. God Bless JJW!!
off the wall talent like JJ was undoubtably lost on Dinah's audience but it's great to see old clips like this from back in the day. Love Jerry Jeff and all the great "outlaw" country artists...
Guy Clark RIP .,JJW saw him 3 times in the 70s , he played this song after my table screamed the request , he was awesome
Saw him in the 70s
I have seen JJW many times being here in Oklahoma and, seen him in TX too. HAs always been one of my favs. Turned my kids on to him many years ago and they too still love his music. Nothing like it for sure.
Thanks for the post. Love this guy - used to sing this song with a friend and it always put a smile on our face. By the way, did anybody notice that JJW had to substitute "little suckers" for "sons a bitches" @ 1:52? Guess back in 78' it was a no no. He should have pulled an Ed Sullivan Show/Jim Morrison.
I listened to this song as I left SoCal. Don't miss it and it doesn't miss me as I didn't fit in.
From the opinion of an average guy in Texas. I grew in Texas, hearing a certain kind of music. This was, and is good country western music. Best sight I've ever seen is welcome to California in my rearview mirror.
Edit because fricken spell check.
Saw him live Singing on the Battle Ship Texas at the Texas 150th Anniversary at the San Jacinto Battleground! Just he and his guitar! I’m so glad Jerry Jeff came to Texas ! He helped creat a unique country music sound . RiP JJW . Oh and the concert to my amazement I’d here on you tube!! Couldn’t believe it .
Bought that lp 50 years ago :saw him in a club in phila. He loved Susan, and was blessed with what every performer needs/ a real smash #[ to pay the bills in the valleys
I've always been a big jerry jeff fan. Just hits a real smooth nerve.
R.I.P. Jeff Thank you for sharing your music...
Another blast from the past!
Great to see this video thanks and RIP Jerry
One of my favorite songs. Saw him in Central Park in the 70s. Damn he was good!
Saw JJW in 1980 @ Cain's Ball Room in Tulsa. Was $8.50 a head and standing room only and he was fantastic! A little late getting on stage but we got really baked; the smallest beer was 16 oz and everyone was passing joints around. Had a great time> Don't know how ;) he stayed on stage for so long
aint this song the truth just like all of jerry jeffs music. just let it all go baby and lets get on down the road. all we need is each other. nobody says it better than jerry. a beautiful song and rockin ending. it dont get no better.
In the 70s we called this "alternative country" (RIP Armadillo World Headquarters and Threadgills), in the 80s it was "Outlaw country" thanks to Waylon, Willie, and Tompall Glaser, since then we've just called it "Texas Music"
He was awesome
love me some jerry jeff
and Dandy Don Meredith--what a treat!
This really takes me back to my childhood. THANKS for posting this video. He double live album "A Man Must Carry On" is one of my favorite all time recordings. I've had the 8 track, the cassette, the recod and the CD. Now it's on my iTunes. Love this guy!
I met Jerry in the 70's through a mutual friend.. Very nice guy .. I was also born in the same hospital at the same time as Dinah Shore's daughter Melissa Montgomery.. Actually dad knew Dinah from the industry.
"...little suckers that always bore me ..." vs SoB's - ha,ha!! Nice job Jerry Jeff. Yeah, that was TV in 1984 for you!
This is a great, classic song. Introduced to me by my buddy Lonnie Keifover the summer of 1977 while working in the uranium mill in Jeffrey City Wyoming ... hmmm, I never thought about the connection to Jerry Jeffrey City until now. Wow, what memories!!
BTW the spelling is, Mark Knopfler. That's a pretty good comparison. They're both great guitarist/singer/songwriters
Them was the days...
Austin.. I can't deny Johnny Bush and his singing ability, but guys like Jerry Jeff write and perform their own songs and songs for other artists to sing . Jerry was also a great guitar player. He's really apart of the whole story telling style similar to alot of Willie and Robert Earl Keen songs. It's funny because I wasn't really a fan at first now I love it.
The irony being that, after Don Meredith praised him for being a singer and songwriter, he sang a song written by someone else.
@ Steve LaVergne ...yeah , but why not choose something from a master craftsman ...Its words for a songsmith , is it not
@jb6319 especially another master craftsman from Texas.
a real rollicking version of this song. Has Jerry Jeff ever rocked like this in the last 40 years?
I was shocked to have learned that Jerry Jeff WAlker passed away almost a year ago already. I had heard nothing at all, how was this missed. He left some legacy of great music, and I even bought his Mr. Bojangles on a 45 when I was a kid. Sorry - rest in peace.
JJ's death did not go unnoticed: The New York Times gave him a terrific send-off. If you can upload the obituary, I think you'll appreciate it.
I discovered Jerry Jeff Walker when I went to see Tom Waits in Detroit and J J W opened. An odd pairing but it was a great show. Late 70s? Didn't listen to country before that show but loved JJW after, that voice still makes me happy, even on the sad songs. Try Todd Snider they even do Mr Bojangles together.
Just sing along people! You'll remember. . . It's sooooo good!
Love this song & JJW!!!
love Guy Clark! he actually wrote this. hard to appreciate any one else's cover bc i grew up w/GCs -- love JJW, too
Your country is beautiful.
Love them bell bottoms Jerry Jeff! Seen him 3 times in Belize. 4 times come next January. Y'all oughta join us.
Who's that guy playing the grand piano? Is it? Yes, it is my wife's brother, Reese Wynans 7 years before he hooked up with Stevie Ray and Double Trouble!
Why am I only the 11th person to like this? And you wrote this ten years ago? What is wrong with the world?
@@jplavin1 s4
R.I.P. Jerry Jeff
Awesome!
@sevenfingers2001 I was there one cold night around this time of year? JJW was singing on top of the small bar tables. What a night................
paused this one for the original ... Guy Clark , great song
Have you heard Jerry Jeff's 1972 album version? It does justice to the original. In fact, it is the first released version. Walker is the artist who put Guy Clark in the spotlight.
youtu. be /i2zE9cot3jY?list=PLC0E74D4D0D6803CA
Awesome
I like this one too, especially as something to cover in a rowdy bar.
Hi Dave, Reese has been working as a session player in Nashville for years and has racked up quite a collection of Gold and Platinum records. He had a lot of success with Brooks and Dunn. Reese also does some Blues Sessions
most notably Tab Benoit and got a platinum CD for his work on Kenney Wayne Shepherd's Trouble Is...He sent that one to me one Christmas for the wall in my home studio where
he has done some of my songwriting demos.
i know i found out about him through listening to Todd Snyder (another artist you should check out if you havent heard of him) and i love his stuff!
❤❤❤
Rest easy jerry jeff
In the late 70s and early 80s before I joined the service. JJW was the man to have at your SPJST Lodge and (Many) was the night I danced to him there (Centerville) or at the Texas Hall Of Fame Club in BCS or even Lake View Club with "Joe Stampely"
Thank you ALL for the tips, to follow. I'm checking them out ..but isnt' there just "something" about Jerry Jeff Walker.
I'm smitten! LOL ;)
thanks again!
Dandy Don introducing Jerry Jeff, cool.
Good song.
I love wat Don has to say about JJ.. and he backs it up!!
The older Iget, the more attractive Dinah Shore becomes. My dad was right once again.
@620NA
Wow...excellent observation.
Good to see an Oneonta boy making good on Dinah.
To think he did this on Dinah Shore. What do you all think of this rockin' vcersion of this song?
GOOD STUFF
JJWdon’t make too many like this anymore Ireland loved you
You are correct sir.
@inatizzy2
Yes he wrote it. Once you write Mr. Bojangles...you have no apologies to make...a song of this calibre...earns you a "get out of jail free card" for life....Mr. Bojangles...is top tier...it may get as good but it never gets much better.
Sorry to say but Clark really captures the soul of this song via his singing.this version looks like Jerry is in real hurry to leave la without being killed or caught. 😂😂😂. Nonethe less Jerry is great.
All I know is that Reese Wynans is playing the grand piano. As you know, he went on and joined SRV and Double Trouble in 1985.
well said Sam
was hoping he'd say the line "son's of bitches always bore me", but I guess swearing wasn't allowed on TV in the '70s!!
Lordy, how stoned is he? He's got lizard eyes. Love it!
Wow. The Dinah set-up with Norman Fell, preceding JJ's performance, is about as off-pitch as a Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn delivery. "Dandy" Don performs the necessary intervention seamlessly to save the day and reveal a facet of his musical tastes at a far remove from his crooning of "The Party's Over" in the Monday Night Football booth. Apparently, so I gather from the conversation, Dinah had DM as her guest host for the week, and he must have championed JJ's appearance on the show. DM's excitement at JJ's appearance is clearly genuine. Like an improvised play on the gridiron, the ball-handling (song-handling) sequence goes something like Guy Clark to Jerry Jeff to Meredith to Dinah to Norman Fell, who nearly fumbles, back to Meredith and finally to Jerry Jeff and his guys who take it into the end zone with that performance. Thanks, Dinah, for taking a chance with something/someone different. And thanks, Don, for championing this great singer-songwriter-performer. (BTW, I can't say for certain, but the applause at the conclusion sounds bogus to me. It sounds "juiced," and, what's worse, the dufus at the sound dials tramples the ending of the performance.) Most of all, thanks, Jerry Jeff, for going into the foreign country of daytime talk tv and deliv'rin' the goods. And a shout-out to Mark Singer for posting this.
Yep.
@620NA Good call, Tomas was with the Lost Gonzos at this time, before forming the Jazzmanian Devils
Don Meredith! The original Dallas Cowboy...from TEXAS!
Bet ya'll didn't notice...that is Reese Wynans of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble on piano....
620NA good call
Actually Mully, JJW wrote Mr Bojangles from an experience he had in jail. Correct me if Im wrong but I do believe he wrote it. He IS a great song writer.
great singing; great guitar playing, I wonder who that lead type guitar player is?
Ya, Ya, heart's aflutter lol (what a cutie!)
JJ may be a great songwriter. But he didn't write this one. Tip your hats to the great Guy Clark. He got better on this tune over the years.
My Bro, Reese Wynans on Grand Piano before
he hooked up with SRV. Yes, I am married to
his sister.
Did Jerry Jeff Walker just try to do a Springsteen thing with a Guy Clark song
To think that Jerry Jeff Walk Walker was on the Dina Shore show . Hard to believe. At this time Jerry Jeff Walker hadn't quite achieved his Texas troubadour style and persona., But it's great, anyway!
I am pretty sure he is on there from begging and pushing from Dandy Don.
Doubt Dinah and her gang of of producers even knew (or cared) who JJ even was. She was probably booking whomever was the popular musical equivalent of the homogenized "idol/voice/amerca's got shit" at the time. ;-)
Agree Zertrat,
By the way he is from Maine.
Anyone to not know or appreciate JJW is too young or stupid to appreciate outlaw country. I grew up on JJW, Merle, David Alan Cole, Willie, and Waylon. Everyone else are just wannabes.
Oneonta, NY. Way upstate, just not quite all the way to Maine.
David Allen COE is good, too. LOL
FROM ONEONTA,NY. MIDDLE OF NY STATE....MY HOMETOWN AND A GREAT PLACE!!
Who is the guy singing back-up and playing lead? I love his voice and it goes perfect with Jerry's. And did he stay with him?
Bobby Rambo is the lead guitarist and harmony singer. He played with Jerry Jeff on Contrary to Ordinary, Jerry Jeff and Too Old to Change. Reese Wynans is the piano player, Tomas Ramirez is the sax player, Ron Cobb is the bassist and I think Freddie Krc is the drummer.
thanks, for that info
Produced 2 concerts with Jerry Jeff ,but this ain't the Lost Gonzo Band , need to find a better version! Just like Jerry Jeff does a better version of MMMurphy's Cosmic Cowboy ,then anyone ; but cannot find a video of it ....with decent sound and video too!
JJ did his best work with the Gonzos. Pure bliss.
Jerry Jeff did write Bojangles!
JJW kicks ass...!
JJW is from New Jersey . . . would love to hear him with Springsteen!
New York, actually, but Jersey will claim him along with Frank Sinatra.
@twonacan
It may be Tomas Ramirez on sax....too blurry to see.
man this guy can get me off so well ... jerry jeff and a 12 oz steak, tequila, and the open spaces... i should have bought more land and less freeway...
Come with us to Belize
Digger, have you read the new Willie biography by Joe Nick Patoski? It's all there and I think you'd like it.
A fellow Texan from that era.
Saw JJW play Houston in 70's. Great musician. He was born in New York, not New Jersey.
Host has a great collar.
HOOK'EM JAKE
@NorOnt18 Looks like the 4th
Pretty sure this is a Guy Clark song however another part of the " clever story telling style "
JJ can rock every Guy Clark song. This video should have cerdited Guy.
If you like Jerry Jeff try on some of his cohorts like Guy Clark and the such.
Interesting he didnt give Guy Clark the credit on live tv..
What fret is his Capo on?
Guy Clark wrote this song.
Who is the guy to DS's left?
Losing Jerry Jeff this year made a bad year just awful.
I love it but I have to believe Dinah's audience had to be thinking "What the hell is this?". I love his live versions of this better than the studio cut....much better when up tempo!
How nice of him to change the "sons of bitches always bore me" line for Dinah's audience.