Jerry Jeff Walker in Luckenbach Texas, Mr Bojangles
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?1979?-Donna, Bryan, and I were hitchhiking outside of Fayetteville, Ark. Around midnight it was, walking back to the Interstate, a light colored (?)Cadillac pulls up. Two guys inside. "Where you guys from?" "New York." We get inside, driver drops off his friend, and the four of us go into a diner. Cashier: "How 'ya doin', Jerry Jeff?" Months later I'll remember and confirm to myself that, "He WAS Jerry Jeff Walker that picked us up hitchhiking that night!"
Cool. Great story for a future book.
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For dwrdtoler2000.
I notice you got marked down for your comment about being proud to be a white kid..
I wonder if those who did it would have done the same on a Sammy Davis version with a comment from a black kid about being proud to be African American? I doubt it some how - the acceptance of this kind of double standard is disturbing. Apparently there are some people who find it offensive that you aren't totally ashamed of your race.
I find the middle finger response appropriate for them..
All Comments (23)
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greatsong great performance
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What a voice, what dignity!
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Musicians think in there own terms. Not terms of race, or genre folks..
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. . . I was right there in 1992 ! ! !
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Leave it to the internet to turn a great song into a debate on race. Stop taking things so seriously and enjoy the music!
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no need to be such a stupid fuck with that comment
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dunno why you got thumbs down, there should be pride in all races. White power, black power, soul power, human power.
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Well my blind prejudice has been truly put back in its box on learning that one of the coolest songs ever is actually a country song!
Fantastic.
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so lucky! i just wish i could see jerry play in person... not likely for me, since i live in washington!
Where does this come from!? unbelievebel
frankleppert 4 years ago
Taped from a BBC item about Texas. Over 4 hours of tv (no commercials inbetween), with lots of music, blues, polka, country, swing, with Kinky Friedman presenting it all. A fantastic program, somewhere middle 1990s, from which I may put a few more little bits on YouTube.
JefFrietkot 4 years ago