The first time I ever gave an honest listen to Jerry Jeff Walker was when I found his album, Viva Terlingua. I say found because literally I found the album. It has been said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. At the young and impressionable age of ten I was an avid dumpster diver. In the dumpster behind my parents home I found a box full of records. Jerry Jeff’s Viva Terlingua was one and I still have it today.
As most all of us know. Jerry Jeff Walker was one of the original Texas Musicians and there hasn’t been many who could hold a candle to his sounds and styles. It was Jerry Jeff who first recorded the poetic lyrics of Guy Clark. Jerry Jeff also wrote many of his own songs that are still popular today.
The world lost Jerry Jeff Walker in the middle of a pandemic but his music will always be on my playlist. I will always hear his song in my brain.
Another great Texas singer and songwriter, Steve Earl , who has previously released tributes for the late Guy Clark and of Townes Van Zandt has begun his own tribute to the music of Jerry Jeff Walker, Earle’s cover of the Walker penned . “Gettin’ By” recently released on Spotify
A great remake of the same old song. Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Gettin’ By” originally released on the Viva Terlingua Album in 1973.
“Don’t matter how you do it , just do it like you do it, I’ve been down this road once or twice before.”
Pancho.