This is supposed to be the fifth and last installment, but I am only about half way there, so I am going to remain faithful to my vision and keep posting those seminal and/or favorite pieces from my musical chronology. From the Dylan and the Beatles, we move quickly to the first set of pop folksingers who really came into their own: James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Jerry Jeff Walker and set the stage for the serious singer-songwriter movement to come. I am choosing Jerry Jeff for two reasons; one, I probably kept Mr. Bojangles in my performing repertoire longer than any other song that I did not write (with the possible exception of Old Shep, which is also a story song with a dead dog in it); two, because his move to the Austin music scene along with Michael Murphey and Willie Nelson set the stage for so much of the music that I came to love. I am fudging a little here because the cut that I first heard was from Walkers debut solo album, but the one I prefer is from his third solo album, Five Years Gone, live for the radio with just Jerry Jeff and David Bromberg. https://youtube/watch?v=G3P7n6eGaic
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:57:08 +0000
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