Gary P Nunn w/ Jerry Jeff Walker - London Homesick Blues

[MoonlitGypsy]

Back in the '80s while I was working in downtown Fort Worth, I won tickets on the radio to see Gary and The Lost Gonzo Band. My co-worker was in Gary's mother's 5th-grade class in Wichita Falls, where Gary grew up. Of course I took Laura with me to see him in Lewisville. During a break, I went over to his table and told him about Laura. He joined us at our table, and we had a blast discussing the past! I'm glad you shared this video with us all!

[Splinter363]

2:18 wow, that face

[chipbuhl]

what the fuck you listen too

[skippybebutter]

Hello Country

[tedmonday666]

well this is the first time I ever heard (or heard of) Gary P. Nunn and I like! He's real good.

[DaveCarroll4]

Saw JJ and the Lost Gonzo Band in a little bar in N. Hollywood. Not sure of the date, late '70's, early "80's. After closing time with power off, they went acoustic 'til the cops came. Invited remaining fans to their hotel bar. 'Bout 20 of us went and they played adlib for another couple hours. Blew me away. I lived in Hawaii, and there's the best of performances there, but nothing before or since, could compare to that night in Hollywood (that's where the hotel was)!

[fishman017]

One of the coolest Texas country songs ever. A perfect blend of Texas cowjazz and country style. Excellent performance.

[teerexness]

Born and raised in the midwest, right out of school I moved to Oklahoma and then Texas. The friendliest people and the prettiest women? 100% true! I came back north almost 30 years ago and not a day goes by that I don't regret that move. And this damn song doesn't help matters either. I wanna go home too!

[jdtakamine]

I wanna go home with the armadillo to. I remember my dad used to play this song when i was little and now god rest his soul i play it today. i love you dad.

[1hovan]

it's all sublime

[islandfever]

I remember livin" in Texas and lovin' this.

[arinvests]

Good old song , not heard before, Thanks ~ Arthur

[Guilherme709B13]

I am Brazilian and I love the North American country .... Brazil also has country music quality! Hug ......

[rennyshelton]

I always figured that "Austin City Limits" theme song had lyrics. Thanks for the post.

[2012mcg]

fucking bad ass dude..... go rangers.

[Reiuxcat]

Gary P Nunn and the Bunkhouse band plays on!

[inatizzy2]

Actually, the words R "in Muskogee Oklahoma, USA!

[inatizzy2]

LOL, I Have the CD with the"chickens" LOVE IT!!!

[inatizzy2]

LOL, I Have the CD with the"chickens" LOVE IT!!!

[farmladyful]

Great song, really enjoyed, thanks for sharingMark...Joanie

[australianfan]

Great song thank you Mark for the link ..Aussie :)

[lovegermanshepherds]

Awesome

[trevor8930]

this song is great, and so easy to relate to. Anyone any where can enjoy this.

And I'm a westcoast Canadian. JJW rules

[totalrandomcrap]

Thank you! I always liked this song on the Austin City Limits opening, and I finally got to hear the whole song!

[SuburbanCowboyTN]

Austin > Nashville

[Irish81622]

Favorite Song!

[DPServices]

Yup. It's the real deal. Thanks, Jackie Jack!

[prober45]

I reckon 3 people are from London

[elirednecker]

I miss when this was the ACL theme...

[snowovernight]

It's so real that it's absolutely perfect

[LenaBerryK]

Jerry looks so happy. Great wife by his side, good friends around and awesome music. Just doing what he loves till the day he dies. <3 JJW

[ThePapabear27]

it just don't get much better than this....thanks for posting

[ghostriderinms]

When I was young a friend of my now exwife's would put this on at her parties. We would form a chorus line and leg kick like the rockettes. Good times!

[oldcodyjr]

How could anyone live anywhere but TEXAS? World's greatest musicians live in Texas, and so do I, for 31 years now. This song should be Texas' anthem.

[BRUC2016]

When I was in college I bought the Viva Terlingua album. I wore that sucker out

playing it repeatedly. This Gary P. Nunn masterpiece should have been declared the

Official State Song of Texas long ago.

[john9944]

Of course everyone has heard this song enough times to tattoo it on your Lone Star heart. However, amother worthwhile song by Gary P. is "What I Like About Texas." If you haven't heard it give it a listen. Another great Texas longing song is Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues." "Oh, I wish I was in Austin in the Chili Parlor Bar." A mad-dog Margarita would taste pretty good right now.

[blueskiesblue]

It's up to 104, 757 now. And, I think I'm responsible for about 100x .. Can't get enough of JJW. And, he and Gary P. both have Face Book Pages!!!!!

[texaspacific20]

The friendliest people and prettiest women you've ever seen, you Goddamn right!!

[pdvmorris1]

anyone know who the mighty fine young guitar picker is, who takes a nice turn with a really tasty solo......love the add-lib over the missed chord change!

[FoxRunMan]

@pdvmorris1 I think that's John Inmon.

[gdcormany]

VIVA!!

[MrBoyatHeart1]

Absolute vintage Texas music. Bands will be playing this song in dancehalls for the next 100 years.

[SlowwHand]

@MrBoyatHeart1 I hope.

[miguelofthehillcount]

@MrBoyatHeart1 Jerry Jeff is booked for the oldest Texas dancehall, Gruene Hall, Dec. 16 &17 in New Braunsfel.

[homeskillet1962]

@miguelofthehillcount It's "New Braunfels". It's German for Brown Fields...

[6gentex]

That's okay, it just shows there are much fewer of us that have taste and recognize talent. I've seen Jerry Jeff, Gary, Billy Joe Shaver, Delbert McClinton, etc etc....many many times in small personal venues with every seat filled by good people. If they were a huge arena type acts, I would have never have the memories I enjoy now. Some of life's greatest pleasures and treasures should be shared and enjoyed by a select few that understand and truly deserve it. You're blessed you are one of them

[eric65882]

armadillo cycle club is in cleburne texas.

[Katcrazy7]

THE EYES OF TEXAS of course!!!:)

[Katcrazy7]

The 2nd best Texas song ever written! 

[lonestarpunk]

@Katcrazy7 what would you say is the 1st?

[roadwarrior3]

GPN and JJF never stop "delivering" on GPN's signature song "London Homesick Blues." A TEXAS SIZE THANK YOU to BRod313 for posting this fabulous video

[curbshoppin]

love it......thanks for the music

[peterpterodactyl]

tele b bender!

[krred1]

What a blast from the past! This was unofficially our anthem of US drilling crews working on oil & gas rigs in the North Sea in the 80's. We usually drove the British crews crazy by us singing it pretty much non stop the last few days till crew change!

And we could start a roughneck ruckus in the pubs singing it !

[joburnstx]

For McK, Forget those sappy love songs, it's about FUN!

[waldopepa]

back between Thanksgiving and X-Mas in 1990,we went to a club called Cowboys in Dallas {dont know if it is still there or not} Gary was playing on a Sat. nite and we get up to pay our cover charge there was a sign said Gary was playing and "New from Arista records Alan Jackson" I thought i came to see and dance to Gary, who the hell is Alan Jackson.We danced all night and I do mean we danced all night. Alan Jackson barely had a single out on disc or cassette.Oh the memories of Gary P.

[MaceMn]

This is great stuff. Country music has sure gone downhill in the last 20 years. Today's stuff is pop music w/ a twang.

[engxladso]

Being from London I'd like to take offence at this song, but I can't 'cos I love it.

[genmama1955]

God I love this song!

[OdinsAcolyte]

Nope. He was there before 1975...cuase I was there in '75 and he had done done this 'un. Luckenbach was a grand pLACE TO PArty. The first place I ever saw goat ropers and hippies party together with pleasure.

[betzdoodle43]

One of my favorite songs from back in the day. Still a sing along song!!! <3 :)

[TheLDLady]

Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

[blueskiesblue]

One of the highlilghts of this vid, is the young girl in the green checked blouse .. Is she having a good time, or what? This is great entertainment at it's very best.

Now, they are older, and still rockin' hard!

[blueskiesblue]

@blueskiesblue - Ooops: She is at 4:35 .. just look at her face! So cute.

[beatler11]

@blueskiesblue 5:35!

[keymankeys1960]

my old vagabonding song yea!!

[magbrown1]

I just love Texas music. Great sound.

Thanks mark

[blujeanswm03]

I just love this, love , love, love it ! Thank you so much Mark, ramey58 for sharing it with me! I put this in my fav's..:) Thank you so much BRod313 for posting it!

Bunches of Smiles and Hugs, Joyce XX:):)♥♥

[jd450lh]

Now I know who wrote the theme to Austin City Limits!!!

Thanks for sharing Mark!

Have a blessed week,

Jeff

[zaaritha]

This is good!

[ramey58]

Fantastic!

[justmusicandme]

@ramey58: Yes, this is some great Texas music - Thanks for sending, Mark!

[ryan10909]

I'll bet the ranch somebody, in some joint on 6th street in Austin is playing this song as I type this.

[waldopepa]

ever get to see gary live,the best,followed and danced in honky tonks in the late 80's and early 90's to garys' took a lady friend to Tolberts Chili Parlor in Dallas one time,he was supposed to play for a couple of hours,diehard gary fans,kicked back tables and chairs and formed a dance floor,management made him quit and we got kicked out cause the were soooo late closing,so many stories,so many dance halls,Gary P Nunn is totally the best.

[blueskiesblue]

waldopepa, that is a GREAT story. Great Memories!

[ramey58]

I used to go to the cook-off every year and saw him there. Great. We were both judges one year.

[UNKAGLEN]

Jerry Jeff and Gary P Nunn,along with the rest of origional "Lost Gonzo Band" were truly some of the pioneers of Redneck Rock.Some of my all-time favorite music.

[RockingchairBill]

love this song.....Allways reminds me of "Austin City Limits", on tv.

[justmusicandme]

@RockingChairBill: I was thinking the same thing! I've never been to Texas, but this sure has a "Texas sound" to me!

[blueskiesblue]

Gee, where IS everyone? LOL I sent this video to so many friends all over the USA (and UK), and everyone is flipping out about how good and how much FUN it is.

It sparked my interest to read more about GPN's life. I'm just trying to figure out what his age is NOW, as not one web post or story - tells it. Smart guy. I'm so sorry I missed JJW and GPN until now. Texas' best kept secrets? Lots of time to catch up. I'm following a road of discovery that is sensational ~ for both.

[blueskiesblue]

Totally awsome! "Fun, fun, fun!!"

[oakron]

This song has always been one of my favorites. still is. Love Jerry Jeff too !!

[douglasjcox]

I always thought that this was one of the greatest county-western songs ever written. I still feel this way 30 years later. The musicians out of Austin have always been the best albeit the least appreciated.

[reptilegrrl]

@douglasjcox Gary P. Nunn isn't from Austin. The TV show is Austin City Limits, it doesn't mean all the players are from Austin. There are some great musicians from Austin, but there are plenty of non-Austin musicians who move there just to take advantage of attitudes like yours, because they aren't appreciated elsewhere. :/

[1DENALI1]

Going to see Gary P. tonight.........Happy Birthday Mama Locke!!!!!!!

[cate1958]

one of my all time favourite tunes....Jackie Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EinsteinasRobinHood]

My favorite song in the whole of Texas or England.

[mouseman71]

I used to have a pet armadillo that kept digging holes in the yard. Other than that GREAT pet. Much better than a dog imo.

[Cldfsn0200]

never heard this song before.... I Looked this song up on Youtube after reading about it in a biography book about Stevie Ray Vaughan called "Caught in the Crossfire" (on page 79) he says the words of the song are "I want to go home to the Armadillo" not "home with the Armadillo". Author says its a reference to a country blues club called "The Armadello" that many up and coming artist including SRV played at regularly. Did they change the words of the song later on as it is here? Anyone now??

[VA24541]

I first heard this song 25 years ago, and seeing as how Gary P. Nunn wrote the song, and is singing it here, I would suppose he got it right, and SRV got it wrong.

By the way, the club you are referring to is Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin.

[Cldfsn0200]

SRV is dead! - I said biography not autobiography...(the authors are Joe Nick Potoski and Bill Crawford...) BTW, its great reading -highly recommend it cause they are discribing the bar and club scene in Eastern Texas from the late sixties to early eighties. Your are doing a lot of "supposing". ... Gary P Nunn may have had to change the lyrics of the song because the owners of The Armadillo in Austin may have told him they wanted some royalty money for using their establishment in a song.

[VA24541]

You will be glad to know I fired Gary P Nunn an email informing him he got the words wrong. I also let him know that you and Potoski and Crawford know the real way the song is to be sung and he had better comply with you three guys or else.

[Cldfsn0200]

I don't know if they "sang it wrong". I was looking for someone who was familiar with the history of the song who may know one way or the the other. Frankly, I wasn't interested in some smart alec answer of an ignoramous.

[VA24541]

Well I tried to explain to you that since Gary P wrote the song, you can be sure he sang it right. Then you pull up some obscure writers who state otherwise, and then you choose to believe them and disregard Gary P himself................... So whatever dude............

[jerryfrankh]

No. The song is referring to smuggling Armadillos from England into Texas.

[jt229ns]

lol thats funny jerry.... thank ya

[raymassie]

it's definitely "with" not "to" -- i've got 'Viva Terlingua' playing right now, as i've done repeatedly for the last 35 years. as a matter of fact, hang on a second... yep, right here in the album liner notes -- yes, i said 'album', as in 'LP' -- it says:

"...and Gary P. Nunn's own "London Homesick Blues," another "life of a country singer" song which endures on radio, well-known for its chorus of "I wanna go home with the armadillo." "

i'm betting the biographers invented the story.

[Cldfsn0200]

Right! I found out they embellished by what you and someone else wrote here. That really annoys me a lot! Makes me wonder how credible the whole book is?Especially when 75 percent of the book is about how messed up SRV's drug and alcohol habits were. These drug abuse stories really got me angry. Cause it was like they were making him out to be a total degenerate. How can SRV defend himself is what biographers must of thought so they embellish the entire story ! Cause they dont know shit!!!!

[raymassie]

i have no doubt that he was strung out, but the only one who knows the true story isn't around anymore. if the book was entertaining great, but don't let it taint your opinion of the man too much.

i saw him open for the Moody Blues in Dallas in 1983. it was awesome. blew me away.

on his tour bus window was a sign that said "you must be 18 years of age to exchange personal favors for backstage passes." always thought that was funny.

[peterpterodactyl]

Who is that playing the White/Parsons B-Bender tele? He nails it.

[gta1032]

Does anyone have the austin city limits version of this???

[CowboyBenTX]

I like them but I want to hear 'em sing- not ramble - i hate when they do that-

[xiphoguy]

Can anyone decipher what JJ is saying at 5:30?

[NYCESOL11211]

And Lubbock and Waco and Dallas and Dalhart and....

[NYCESOL11211]

Gary P. is of the literate class of country musicians, and if he were representative of Nashville in general, I would be proud to be a country music fan.

Listening to this makes me wish I was back home in Oklahoma. My father and grandfather used to farm near Gary P.'s old place near Eufaula, Oklahoma. We had a place on the south side of the South Canadian river. Dad used to listen to Austin City Limits every Friday night (or was it Saturday?) and he would always turn it up for this song.

[xiphoguy]

Thanx so much!!! That makes sense (and is pretty funny). I'll do it that way this Friday at CajunTex restaraunt in Marshall this Friday.

[inatizzy2]

I am STILL in OK and loving it. Yeah, JJW was big here in OK, I got to see him many times! ..still lovin it!

[wretchedrichard]

According to a friend of mine who works for the Underground, Marble Arch Station is the choice for suicides by jumping in front of a train. If anyone cares for trivia....

[geohabe]

Is that Bob Livingston behind Jerry Jeff--an original Gonzo Band member?

[painekiller727]

Yes it is.

[balboaboats]

Boomboomdrums said it, Dallas boy here and my cold, windy wintry trips to Heathrow and Trafalgar Square are always accompanied by this song. There's something about listening to this while riding in the tube or walking on High Street that kills me every time. This song nails it on the head. "The English sense of humor is drier than the Texas sand" No truer words spoken.

[plattform5163]

Thanks for sharing this great song! 5+

[bdwon]

The best filmed version of LHBlues is found in a film about Willie Nelson's 2nd Annual July 4 Picnic . . . it's hard to find.

It is way less up tempo than any other version I know. It was recorded the same year GPNunn wrote the song and it is therefore a fresh performance without any of the mechanical repetitive qualities of other versions.

If anyone has it . . . please post it.

PLEASE

Please

[WINEMONKEY2]

I dunno. I'm partial to this version and the one on "Viva Terlingua".

[Coonskinner124]

I was a teenage kid living in deepest Oklahoma when I got my hands on Viva Terlingua...

I wore out that cassette in the tape deck of my 67 GMC truck. I loved this one and Up Against the Wall Redneck.

[DMarc85]

best country song ever.

[echristianiii]

I head Jerry Jeff solo at the Little Bear in Evergreen, Co. about twenty years ago....great show.....about 3 months later Gary P. Nunn shows up at the same venue with a nineteen year old fiddle player that kicked butt

[tonytnt1980]

I first heard this song when i was a teenager on the viva terlingua album, aside from up against the wall red neck mother it's my favorite.

[boomboomdrums]

Gary P is a C&W genius. I saw him live in Austin at the Broken Spoke a couple of years ago and it was awesome. If you've ever spent a week or two in London in the winter time and are from Texas you can totally relate to this song. I spent a couple of weeks there around Christmas in 2004 and came to realize the true genius of this song! Why is Kid Rock making hit C&W songs while Gary P is relatively unknown? It's a sin.

[slammer8232]

jerry jeff walker and gary has to be the best combinaton ever

[gar949]

This gives me chills down my back!!! I doesn't get much better than this.

[wldcat57]

This is the real stuff, I love this Shit!!!

[TheShnizel]

Wow. There are so many absolutely trivial, menial, horrible shitty vids here with millions of views... and genuine, awesome talent like this is only seen 8 thousand times?? Guess I'm lucky.

[LRooster4Prez]

@TheShnizel try 80,000 views

[pdxphotoman]

Great to see Gary again. His gift for self-deprecating humor lives.

[bravo144]

Hey detocqueville it's a song not a political statement ...relax.

[detocqueville]

Bored and homesick in London? Yeah, go back to your Texas dirt, pal. We don't like peasants like you in London anyways.

[ScooterGirl9988]

Hey detocqueville, that fact that Londoners don't like "peasants" like Gary P. Nunn is probably one of the reasons why he was so homesick!

[sjuozhunki]

eat shit

[tthriller]

reply to detocqueville

Why would Gary like Londistan?!

Londistan is a shithole.

[hialtud]

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

[pmkr152]

reminds me of being a little kid with my dad playing this in the car....i love this sh!i

[tomfoss2]

And I'll substantiate the rumor, that the English sense of humor, is drier than the Texas sand...

Listen to this song folks, great fun and a great tune