Jerry Jeff Walker It's a Good Night for Singin & Contrary to Ordinary (2-CD)

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(2013/Raven) 30 tracks. Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Country... more

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Jerry Jeff Walker: It's a Good Night for Singin & Contrary to Ordinary (2-CD)

(2013/Raven) 30 tracks. Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Country singer/songwriter making their first appearance on CD: It's a Good Night for Singin' (1976) and Contrary to Ordinary (1978). Widely known as the writer of the oft-covered and immensely popular 'Mr. Bojangles', Walker came to prominence in the early 1970s as part of the progressive 'outlaw' Country scene around Austin, Texas, alongside Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt.

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Interpret: Jerry Jeff Walker
Album titlle: It's a Good Night for Singin & Contrary to Ordinary (2-CD)
Genre Country
Label RAVEN
Artikelart CD
EAN: 9398800035423
weight in Kg 0.1

Walker, Jerry Jeff - It's a Good Night for Singin & Contrary to Ordinary (2-CD) CD 1
01	(Looking For) the Heart of Saturday Night	Jerry Jeff Walker
02	Standin' At the Big Hotel	Jerry Jeff Walker
03	Couldn't Do Nothin' Right	Jerry Jeff Walker
04	Won't You Give Me One More Chance	Jerry Jeff Walker
05	Head Full of Nothin'	Jerry Jeff Walker
06	Old Five and Dimers Like Me	Jerry Jeff Walker
07	Very Short Time	Jerry Jeff Walker
08	Some Day I'll Get Out of These Bars	Jerry Jeff Walker
09	Stoney	Jerry Jeff Walker
10	Dear John Letter Lounge	Jerry Jeff Walker
11	Leroy	Jerry Jeff Walker
12	It's a Good Night For Singin'	Jerry Jeff Walker

Walker, Jerry Jeff - It's a Good Night for Singin & Contrary to Ordinary (2-CD) CD 2
01	Tryin' To Hold the Wind Up With a Sail	Jerry Jeff Walker
02	Saturday Night Special	Jerry Jeff Walker
03	Suckin' a Big Bottle of Gin	Jerry Jeff Walker
04	What Are We Doing?	Jerry Jeff Walker
05	Till I Gain Control Again	Jerry Jeff Walker
06	Contrary To Ordinary	Jerry Jeff Walker
07	We Were Kinda Crazy Then	Jerry Jeff Walker
08	Deeper Than Love	Jerry Jeff Walker
09	I Spent All My Money Lovin' You	Jerry Jeff Walker
10	Carry Me Away	Jerry Jeff Walker
11	Honky Tonk Music	Jerry Jeff Walker
12	Railroad Lady	Jerry Jeff Walker
13	Ro-Deo-Deo Cowboy	Jerry Jeff Walker
14	Derby Day	Jerry Jeff Walker
15	Long Afternoons	Jerry Jeff Walker
16	Rockin' Chair	Jerry Jeff Walker
17	My Buddy	Jerry Jeff Walker
18	The Stranger (He Was the Kind) (Reprise)	Jerry Jeff Walker

Jerry Jeff Walker Gettin' By Ronald Crosby had already become Jerry Jeff Walker by... more

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Jerry Jeff Walker

Gettin' By

Ronald Crosby had already become Jerry Jeff Walker by the time he left New York for Austin and left Atlantic Records for MCA, but it was in Austin and on MCA that he became who he felt Jerry Jeff Walker was destined to be. "I'm a Texan," he told the 'New York Times.' "Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains; the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm, and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it. High school ended, and Ron Crosby ended and Jerry Jeff began. Texas is where I found my musical self." In Texas, he channeled the lives of the people around him into songs that made people outside Texas feel they knew a place that maybe only exists in spirit. Gettin' By is the self-explanatory credo of the new Jerry Jeff Walker.

Some four years before Waylon ensured that everyone knew about Luckenbach, Jerry Jeff was recording there in the old dance hall that was one of the few remaining buildings. On weekends, its population increased from one person to several hundred and it became the Texas Hill Country's Fillmore. Walker's producer, Michael Brovsky, a former member of (believe it or not) the Serendipity Singers, embraced the idea of going to Luckenbach, and opened the doors for ventilation. The baffles were hay bales. The album cover gave the impression that 'Viva Terlingua!' was a live LP recorded on August 18, but in fact the sessions were spread over two weeks, finishing with a concert that day, Most of the LP was live without an audience. Even most of the songs were written after arrival. As Willie Nelson's harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, said, "It was a good time for everybody to hang out, because, if we all had different jobs with different people, we'd be out on the road separately. So, this kind of brought other musicians that were friends that didn't get to play together a lot." Gettin' By took a good-natured potshot at MCA Records president Mike Maitland, who was leery of underwriting the project, especially as Walker had barely delivered anything like a hit in years:

Last week I was thinking, it's record time again

And I could see Mike Maitland pacing his floor

Ah Mike, don't you worry, something's bound to come out

Besides, I've been down this road once before

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