Best Of The Vanguard Years (CD) ~ Jerry Jeff Walker (Artist) Cover Art

Best Of The Vanguard Years (CD)

By: Jerry Jeff Walker (Artist)

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Jerry Jeff Walker Artist Snapshot:

Jerry Jeff Walker would have achieved pop music immortality had he done nothing other than written "Mr. Bojangles," an allegedly true account of Walker's drunk-tank meeting with the dance legend. But Walker has achieved much more, building a solid career in the Texas "outlaw" singer-songwriter mold (a native New Yorker, Walker relocated to Texas in the early "70s).

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DISC 1 for Best Of The Vanguard Years (CD) Album By Jerry Jeff Walker (Artist)
1   Driftin' Way Of Life
2   Mr. Bojangles - (previously unreleased)
3   Louise - (previously unreleased, with Nicolette Larson)
4   Morning Song To Sally
5   Come Outside, Believe In It
6   People Play Games
7   Hansel And Gretel
8   Fading Lady
9   Mixtures
10   Shell Game
11   North Cumberland Blues
12   Let It Ride
13   Dust On My Boots
14   Old Road
15   Gertrude
16   Ramblin', Scramblin'
17   No Roots In Ramblin'
18   Trying To Live Right
19   Lost Sea Shanty
20   Oops I Can Dance
 

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Review

Dirty Linen (8-9/99, p.72) - "...[Walker] went through two different musical incarnations during his late 60s tenure on Vanguard....The earliest...is from the two albums he recorded with [Circus Maximus]....The bulk of the disc is taken from DRIFTING WAY OF LIFE, Walker's 1969 solo troubadour album..."

Title Note

Includes liner notes by Tom Vickers.

All tracks have been digitally remastered using 20-bit technology.

This is part of the Vanguard Sessions Series.

Several of these tracks are taken from albums by Jerry Jeff Walker's entertaining, if uneven, psychedelic folk rock band Circus Maximus. However, since the band's best song--the early underground radio favorite "The Wind"--was written by somebody else, it's not included here.

Most of the rest comes from a contractual obligation album Walker recorded in Nashville before he split for Atlantic subsidiary Atco. It's an early example of country rock with Dylanesque overtones. The standout track, however, is the original demo of Walker's best known song, "Mr. Bojangles." It's spare, beautiful, and superior in every way to the more famous official studio version.

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