![]() ![]() ![]() Bojangles,” the aforementioned Top 10 hit (courtesy of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s cover, one of the first of many), would forever be his most famous song, but the Jerry Jeff Walker most fans know and love was born fully grown in that Texas ghost town in the summer of 1973. But the record Walker and his merry men cooked up the following year in Luckenbach - ¡Viva Terlingua! - heralded his true arrival. But a recent move to Austin and a fortuitous hook-up with the perfect band of like-minded musical gonzos had jumpstarted his muse again, as proven straight away on his first Texas album, 1972’s Jerry Jeff Walker. He had crisscrossed the country (and Canada, to boot) several times all through the ‘60s, recorded seven albums, parlayed a night in the pokey into an instant-classic Top 10 song, and even flirted with a burnout-and-cocaine-induced early retirement in too-sunny Key West. By the time Jerry Jeff Walker came sliding sideways into Luckenbach, the 31-year-old freewheeling drifter already had enough miles on his troubadour odometer to leave his standard manufacturer’s warranty in the dust.
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