He was my Dad's first cousin, but I never got to meet him. I found out about him being related to me when we did a family tree from Ancestry. My dad always was listening to his music, but my dad died when I was 13. It's so nice to hear all the comments that he was a wonderful guy. Thank you for sharing! ❤️
@@crystalconroy6039 So sorry about your dad, I love all the songs Mr. Jerry Jeff Walker sang. He was the best. I always listen to his music every weekend. Like need a dose of it to keep me going and smiling. With a happy heart. That is true. Blessings to you and your family. 💌
Met JJW in a bar in Belize around 2011. Had my daughter and son in law with me, as I quietly listened to him while he sat in a chair singing to himself with his guitar. He wasn’t playing at this outdoor bar, it was a private resort and he was just relaxing. Very kind man who sat and talked with us. I didn’t let on that I knew who he was and everything so relaxed and enjoyable.
I first listen to Jerry Jeff in 1977. He has been a music icon to me. Back then I boasted “If you don’t know Jerry Jeff Walker you never have hear country music”. RIP Jerry Jeff
@@douglasstudeman5137 My wife & I went to Austin for his 2019 birthday show. I think that was his last concert. He was still recovering from surgery for throat cancer. Jerry Jeff could barely speak, much less sing. But he played. And friends of his who were onstage led most of the songs. I wept through about half the concert. Jerry Jeff was an AMAZING talent. Aside from his songwriting talents, which were considerable, he was the Frank Sinatra of songs by Guy Clark, the greatest songwriter of my generation. (And I'm not even that much of a country music fan.)
Jerry Jeff Walker, born Ronald Clyde Crosby on March 16, 1942, Oneonta, New York, United States, died on October 23, 2020. He was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was best known for writing "Mr. Bojangles". Walker's maternal grandparents played for square dances in the Oneonta area, with his grandmother, Jessie Conroe, playing piano, and grandfather playing fiddle. During the late 1950s, he was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. The band traveled to Philadelphia to audition for Dick Clark's American Bandstand, but were turned down. After high school, Crosby joined the National Guard, but his thirst for adventure led him to go AWOL and roam the country busking for a living in New Orleans and throughout Texas, Florida, and New York, often accompanied by H.R. Stoneback (a friendship referenced in 1970's "Stoney"). He played mostly ukulele until Harriet Ottenheimer, one of the founders of The Quorum, got him settled on a guitar in 1963. He adopted his stage name "Jerry Jeff Walker" in 1966. He spent his early folk music days in Greenwich Village in the mid-1960s. He co-founded a band with Bob Bruno in the late-1960s called Circus Maximus that put out two albums, one with the popular radio hit "Wind", but Bruno's interest in jazz apparently diverged from Walker's interest in folk music. Walker resumed his solo career and recorded the seminal album Mr. Bojangles with the help of David Bromberg and other influential Atlantic recording artists. He settled in Austin, Texas, in the 1970s, associating mainly with the outlaw country scene that included artists such as Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings, and Townes Van Zandt. A string of records for MCA and Elektra followed Jerry Jeff's move to Austin, Texas, before he gave up on the mainstream music business and formed his own independent record label. Tried & True Music was founded in 1986, with his wife Susan as president and manager. Susan also founded Goodknight Music as his management company and Tried & True Artists for his bookings. A series of increasingly autobiographical records followed under the Tried & True imprint. Tried & True also sells his autobiography, Gypsy Songman. In 2004, Jerry Jeff released his first DVD of songs from his past as performed in an intimate setting in Austin. He interpreted the songs of others such as Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Paul Siebel, Bob Dylan, Todd Snider, Dave Roberts, and even a rodeo clown named Billy Jim Baker. Some have called Jerry Jeff the Jimmy Buffett of Texas. It was Jerry Jeff who first drove Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut Grove, Florida in a Packard). Walker and Buffett also co-wrote the song "Railroad Lady" while riding the last run of the Panama Limited. Walker married Susan Streit in 1974 in Travis County, Texas. They have two children: a son, Django Walker, who is also a musician, and a daughter Jessie Jane. Walker had a retreat on Ambergris Caye in Belize, where he recorded his Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits album in 1998. Walker had an annual birthday celebration in Austin at the Paramount Theatre and at Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas. This party had become an enormous event in Texas and brought some of the biggest names in country music for a night of picking and swapping stories under the Austin skyline. Walker recorded songs written by others such as "LA Freeway" (Guy Clark), "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother" (Ray Wylie Hubbard), "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits) and "London Homesick Blues". On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Jerry Jeff Walker among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire. Walker's "Mr. Bojangles" is perhaps his best-known and most-often covered song. It was about an obscure alcoholic but talented tap-dancing drifter who, when arrested and jailed in New Orleans, insisted on being identified only as Bojangles (the nickname of famed dancer Bill Robinson). In his autobiography Gypsy Songman, Walker makes it clear the man he met was white. Further, in an interview with BBC Radio 4 in August 2008, he pointed out that at the time the jail cells in New Orleans were segregated along color lines, so his influence could not have been black. Bojangles is thought to have been a folk character who entertained informally in the South and California, with authentic reports of his existing from the 1920s through about 1965.
Just a few days ago a good friend of mine… a ramblin man like myself, we live on an island in the Caribbean, sent me “ Maybe Mexico”. I did not know Jerry Jeff before listening to that song. I am completely taken back by this man and his career. Wow… crazy good stuff from a true Ramblin, beach comin, cowboy. I can’t stop listening to Jerry Jeff Walker ❤️
Beautiful fella: gave us so many years of happy music and today's kids have never heard of him. Damn shame. Spread the word .... posthumously ... Sad to say
God Bless Jerry Jeff Walker I remember seeing him as a very young girl in Pojauque, New Mexico. I still sing tunes from Terlingua. Gary P. Nunn. I have many faves from that album. I really like Lindon Homesick Blues, Getting by, ....
I was 15 when I first started listening to Jerry Jeff. I had a album and 2 8 tracks and Up against the Wall Redneck Mother was on album, 1975. Good ole days.
Just found this song while looking for something to play at a Jerry Jeff Walker Open Mic. The thing is, I am planning to retire to Belize in the next year. I think I found my song. RIP Jerry Jeff. Thanks for all the great songs.
Good bye Scamp,, a fan since 74, U definitely had a good life with Susan, I was in your Belize house maybe 7 yrs ago.. Hondo be waitin now.. Namaste friend..
Very beautiful, smooth and relaxing song. Every word of this song is so true, not only about San Pedro but for several other places in Belize. Most days are sunny and most people here do things the Christian way, just like he says.
Is it? I went. I found his house. I took pics. He was already gone for 7 months though. And I only took selfies with his place with my mask on. Dang. lol
My humbly RESPECT to you and the band it was very beautiful it makes my heart cry cause here in Belize we live in paradise and yet some of us dont know that every thing is possible here DOWN IN BELIZE thanks once again Mr. Jerry Jeff Walker some day we shall meet ONELOVE and TRULOVE PEACE
Three years later and I still go back to this. I also enjoyed his duet with Todd Snider doing Mr. Bojangles. Even hoarse Jerry Jeff is a better singer than most.
What a nice song. Happy men like just what they've got. Yes. Love the guitar, such tasteful playing and beautiful tone. I have to listen to it twice, once for the words and melody and again just to appreciate the guitar playing.
Totally beautiful. No one can say JJW doesn't sing "soul music'' ... because it's plain to see and hear .. that's where it's comin' from. Bravo ! PS: I'm knockin' myslef out to find a video I didn't mark. JJW, Garth Brooks singing in a huge rain storm, I believe at S.Padre Island. I've entered every word I can, and can't find it again. ;( I think they were singing Texas On My Mind (????) They were having SUCH a great time, in the downpour. It's a keeper!!!! ;)
BTW that's Jimmy Ibbotson singing harmony and playing mandolin. He was with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and came down to Belize with Jerry in May 2008. Great singer and hella good guy.
I loved Belize back in the early 80's when I first visited. Although I enjoyed San Pedro for a few days , couldn't get a Chef's gig there way back when. Then I found Phuket ,Thailand in 1985 and foggettabout Belize ! Great lobster dinners but too many angry people working un-happily IMHO A few good drinking spots , now 30 years later it may be better. I hope it is ,cause there were allot of good folks trying to do right too!!! Now I live in Naklua near Pattaya . I Produced 2 concerts with Jerry Jeff in Steamboat Springs ,Colorado in 80's. I actually had met him in NOLA in '75 0r '76 when Jimmy Buffett & The Corral Reefer Band opened for Jerry Jeff.Great show all-around !!!!!
I was out on Ambergris Caye in '82 when the fanciest hotel was one like an old Holiday Inn back in the Capital City. That was their one year Independence Celebration. It was like walking around in a 1940's Humphrey Bogart movie. There was a 3,000 s.f. thatch roofed home just up the beach from the Victoria House out on Ambergris I tried talking my retired folks into buying for $100,000 cash. They preferred buying much larger quantities on rivers and lake in the Arkansas Ozarks. That two acres of beachfront land would have sold for more than all their properties in Arkansas. Earlier, I was the Head Bouncer at the Little Bear Saloon in Evergreen where I had a ranch five miles and about 1,000' above Evergreen, before I was hired to produce concerts and be Road Manger out of Nashville and New York. When Jerry Jeff played Red Rocks, Michael Murphey opened up for him. When YOU met Jerry Jeff in '75 or '76, his band was the one my Brother Dave Perkins put together. Dave is who I wound up as Concert Producer and Road Manager for with my second team in Nashville. Dave told me he and one of the other guys from Jerry Jeff's band pulled a stunt while Murphey was out doing his thing playing Geronimo's Cadillac. I'd first met Murphey (and became friends with Ray Wylie Hubbard) while I was a mountain, fishing and hunting guide out of and above Red River, New Mexico in the early 70's, then he moved up to Evergreen for a while, or the Conifer area to be more exact. (A "suburb" of Evergreen at the time and about 18 miles over to the east in the mountains. Now the whole are is "Denver West". Bummer.) I think the guy's name was Leo, who also played in JJ's band who did this with Dave. Dave came out behind Murphey from one side of the stage while "Leo" came out from the other, both doing that "Pocahontas straight up Dance (not to be confused with a Straight Dance, which is an old style Plains War Dance... I've produced a number of Powwows and helped create and start Red Earth in Oklahoma City) met and passed ech other while they both had their arms folded, high stepping and then patting their mouths while "woo-wooing" across the stage behind Murphey. When the crowd started roaring, he thought it was for him. Jerry Jeff was cracking up, but told Dave to not do that anymore. We did a number of shows with Jerry Jeff and he'd make sure to come see us when we'd be playing in NYC at the Lone Star Cafe (with the Blues Brothers, etc.) or at Kenny's Kastaways on Bleeker Street in the Village. We played with him at someplace in Philadelphia too, but I had too many Cheese Steaks to remember the place's name now. Fun times. Too bad we haven't crossed paths in person because we've certainly crossed footprints.
I use to work at Your Father's Mustache on 7th Ave.& 10the St. , it closed and became a C&W Club .....forget the name but I had moved to Norfolk ,Va, at the end of 1968 , wound up doing HAIR @ Tidewater Dinner Theater , allot of NYC Equity Actors knew our owner and worked under different names ,so no Union gigs ,which was the only way we could afford some actors.I also did GUYS&DOLLS ,PROMISES
If you were bouncer at the Little Bear in '74 or '75, you may have bounced me out of there! I lived at Swiss Haven on Upper Bear Creek. We used to go see Michael Murphey play at the T Bar S before anyone had heard of Wildfire. The day the T Bar S burned down we sat by the ashes and mourned.
O yes He will be missed.I started listening to Him in 1974 at KFAT Radio inGilroy That was on Hell of a Party Place I smoked a Lot of good Weed in that Place?
Jerry Jeff meets Jimmy Buffett. Oh, I forgot they met before....and even lived together when they were starting off and co-wrote the classic "Railroad Lady."
The guy playing mandolin wearing the denim shirt is Jimmy Ibbotson, the former lead singer of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Jimmy has an incredible voice and sang the hit "Fishin In the Dark."
I have been to Belize a few times and enjoyed San Pedro very much. It still looks very original with the caribbean feel, the huge corporations with fancy restaurants and boutique shops have Not made itthere yet. Belize City is not nice, but the districts (inland) are nice. very hot and humid. Loved Benque Viejo in the Cayo District.
If you get a chance go to his birthday bash in Austin at the Paramount on Saturday night or at Gruen Hall on Sunday night....good times. This is a very good song by an older much more mellow JJW.
Somebody asked me if I thought I could be Happy living all my days down in Belize And I though why not I always like it hot So I started listing reasons why I like it there Sunny days of fishing in the salty air And the stars at night There ain’t no ambient light The good life gives you what you need And I believe happiness counts a lot They say successful men get what they want Happy men want just what they got And the good life for me comes naturally Down in Belize Ya the island where we live is small and intertwined They got their own pace they call it island time When they say right away they just may not mean today They say what’s your hurry man don’t worry Don’t you know San Pedro Days go slow The island life will get you Pretty soon it sets you Down into a slower mode That’s when all your tensions go I say the mode of dress is flip-flops and an old t-shirt Cut-offs, straw hat, sunglasses won’t hurt Cause it’s a sunny day I always like it that way People are all friendly oh they love themselves When they get into trouble they help each other out It’s the Christian way I always like it that way Ya the good life gives you what you need And I believe happiness counts a lot Successful men get what they want Happy men want just what they got And the good life for me comes naturally Down in Belize Doo doo, doo, doo doo, Doo, doo doo, doo doooo Doo doo, doo, doo doo Doo doo do ooooo
Emigrated to Belize one week after the November debacle (US presidential election), and will never return to the US to reside. That said, what's NOT to love about Belize or like about J2W?
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Rest in peace brother. Thank you so much for all the great music.
Oh I am so sorry!🙏
brother!
I listen to him daily. Makes the day much better
That man really get's Belize. He is my neighbor on the Island and what a pleasure to have met him several times.
My Heart is in San Pedro!
He was my Dad's first cousin, but I never got to meet him. I found out about him being related to me when we did a family tree from Ancestry. My dad always was listening to his music, but my dad died when I was 13. It's so nice to hear all the comments that he was a wonderful guy. Thank you for sharing! ❤️
@@crystalconroy6039 So sorry about your dad, I love all the songs Mr. Jerry Jeff Walker sang. He was the best. I always listen to his music every weekend. Like need a dose of it to keep me going and smiling. With a happy heart. That is true. Blessings to you and your family. 💌
Rest In Peace Jerry Jeff! Such a beautiful soul. You will be missed! ♥️🌞😎🙏🏻
JJ looks like he came full circle… having never lost himself. What an inspiration
Wonderful song. His voice got better with age.....
I love the way he sings, No matter what. I just found his songs, to me they all sounds great. When he sings, it makes my heart happy.
Met JJW in a bar in Belize around 2011. Had my daughter and son in law with me, as I quietly listened to him while he sat in a chair singing to himself with his guitar. He wasn’t playing at this outdoor bar, it was a private resort and he was just relaxing. Very kind man who sat and talked with us. I didn’t let on that I knew who he was and everything so relaxed and enjoyable.
I first listen to Jerry Jeff in 1977. He has been a music icon to me. Back then I boasted “If you don’t know Jerry Jeff Walker you never have hear country music”. RIP Jerry Jeff
My First J.J.W.Concert was at Santa Cruz Civic.Don Williams open up for Him.Those were the days
@@douglasstudeman5137 My wife & I went to Austin for his 2019 birthday show. I think that was his last concert. He was still recovering from surgery for throat cancer. Jerry Jeff could barely speak, much less sing. But he played. And friends of his who were onstage led most of the songs. I wept through about half the concert.
Jerry Jeff was an AMAZING talent. Aside from his songwriting talents, which were considerable, he was the Frank Sinatra of songs by Guy Clark, the greatest songwriter of my generation. (And I'm not even that much of a country music fan.)
Jerry is on some beach singing and having a hell of a time, rest in paradise brotha. Grew up on you.
Love-Love-Love Our Late Jeff….🙏🎤🎸❤️….What a BEAUTIFUL SONG…..Puts You Right down in the Island mood….🏖️🍹👣👙
"Successful men get just what they want, happy men want just what they got." The Buddha coulda said that.
He probably did.
Jerry Jeff is my Buddha.
So sad to just read of his passing, I came to this song 1st.
This is a beautiful song. Rest In Peace Jerry Jeff! ♥️🌞😎🙏🏻
How could you not like it? So good!
Jerry Jeff Walker, born Ronald Clyde Crosby on March 16, 1942, Oneonta, New York, United States, died on October 23, 2020. He was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was best known for writing "Mr. Bojangles".
Walker's maternal grandparents played for square dances in the Oneonta area, with his grandmother, Jessie Conroe, playing piano, and grandfather playing fiddle. During the late 1950s, he was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. The band traveled to Philadelphia to audition for Dick Clark's American Bandstand, but were turned down.
After high school, Crosby joined the National Guard, but his thirst for adventure led him to go AWOL and roam the country busking for a living in New Orleans and throughout Texas, Florida, and New York, often accompanied by H.R. Stoneback (a friendship referenced in 1970's "Stoney"). He played mostly ukulele until Harriet Ottenheimer, one of the founders of The Quorum, got him settled on a guitar in 1963. He adopted his stage name "Jerry Jeff Walker" in 1966.
He spent his early folk music days in Greenwich Village in the mid-1960s. He co-founded a band with Bob Bruno in the late-1960s called Circus Maximus that put out two albums, one with the popular radio hit "Wind", but Bruno's interest in jazz apparently diverged from Walker's interest in folk music. Walker resumed his solo career and recorded the seminal album Mr. Bojangles with the help of David Bromberg and other influential Atlantic recording artists.
He settled in Austin, Texas, in the 1970s, associating mainly with the outlaw country scene that included artists such as Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings, and Townes Van Zandt.
A string of records for MCA and Elektra followed Jerry Jeff's move to Austin, Texas, before he gave up on the mainstream music business and formed his own independent record label. Tried & True Music was founded in 1986, with his wife Susan as president and manager. Susan also founded Goodknight Music as his management company and Tried & True Artists for his bookings. A series of increasingly autobiographical records followed under the Tried & True imprint. Tried & True also sells his autobiography, Gypsy Songman. In 2004, Jerry Jeff released his first DVD of songs from his past as performed in an intimate setting in Austin.
He interpreted the songs of others such as Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Paul Siebel, Bob Dylan, Todd Snider, Dave Roberts, and even a rodeo clown named Billy Jim Baker. Some have called Jerry Jeff the Jimmy Buffett of Texas. It was Jerry Jeff who first drove Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut Grove, Florida in a Packard). Walker and Buffett also co-wrote the song "Railroad Lady" while riding the last run of the Panama Limited.
Walker married Susan Streit in 1974 in Travis County, Texas. They have two children: a son, Django Walker, who is also a musician, and a daughter Jessie Jane. Walker had a retreat on Ambergris Caye in Belize, where he recorded his Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits album in 1998.
Walker had an annual birthday celebration in Austin at the Paramount Theatre and at Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas. This party had become an enormous event in Texas and brought some of the biggest names in country music for a night of picking and swapping stories under the Austin skyline.
Walker recorded songs written by others such as "LA Freeway" (Guy Clark), "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother" (Ray Wylie Hubbard), "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits) and "London Homesick Blues".
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Jerry Jeff Walker among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.
Walker's "Mr. Bojangles" is perhaps his best-known and most-often covered song. It was about an obscure alcoholic but talented tap-dancing drifter who, when arrested and jailed in New Orleans, insisted on being identified only as Bojangles (the nickname of famed dancer Bill Robinson). In his autobiography Gypsy Songman, Walker makes it clear the man he met was white. Further, in an interview with BBC Radio 4 in August 2008, he pointed out that at the time the jail cells in New Orleans were segregated along color lines, so his influence could not have been black. Bojangles is thought to have been a folk character who entertained informally in the South and California, with authentic reports of his existing from the 1920s through about 1965.
Just a few days ago a good friend of mine… a ramblin man like myself, we live on an island in the Caribbean, sent me “ Maybe Mexico”. I did not know Jerry Jeff before listening to that song. I am completely taken back by this man and his career. Wow… crazy good stuff from a true Ramblin, beach comin, cowboy. I can’t stop listening to Jerry Jeff Walker ❤️
From Oneonta, NY State
Ramblin, beach comin' cowboy... from New York! :)
Thank you for the music and good vibes!!! Your still spreading happiness
Beautiful fella: gave us so many years of happy music and today's kids have never heard of him. Damn shame. Spread the word .... posthumously ... Sad to say
Jerry Jeff's music is timeless! He is still as awesome as ever! Absolutely love this song! Thanks for posting this video!
Jerry Jeff was a HUGE deal & act in the 1970s. For me ... he still is!
I wish I had this entire session - I would pay any amount of dough$ - Perfection!
So genuine. Loved his humor and songs. RIP
jerry jeff is getting old like the rest of us but there is a life that burns in his eyes younger than an infants..... keep the music coming
God Bless Jerry Jeff Walker
I remember seeing him as a very young girl in Pojauque, New Mexico. I still sing tunes from Terlingua. Gary P. Nunn.
I have many faves from that album. I really like Lindon Homesick Blues, Getting by, ....
Makes me wanna go back. Still my favorite Jerry Jeff tune, does somethin to me. Rest in Paradise brother.
I was 15 when I first started listening to Jerry Jeff. I had a album and 2 8 tracks and Up against the Wall Redneck Mother was on album, 1975. Good ole days.
Just found this song while looking for something to play at a Jerry Jeff Walker Open Mic. The thing is, I am planning to retire to Belize in the next year. I think I found my song. RIP Jerry Jeff. Thanks for all the great songs.
Good bye Scamp,, a fan since 74, U definitely had a good life with Susan, I was in your Belize house maybe 7 yrs ago.. Hondo be waitin now.. Namaste friend..
This song is new to me ,and I love it ! Such a great song to add to my island songs , I need an island trip !
Have you taken that trip yet man? Have a good one.......
Beautiful Song Rest in Peace.My Friend
I find myself watching this video every day. I love this guy.
Very beautiful, smooth and relaxing song. Every word of this song is so true, not only about San Pedro but for several other places in Belize. Most days are sunny and most people here do things the Christian way, just like he says.
You made the world a better place
Living Legend Jerry Jeff Walker!!! One of the best of all time!
Velvet voice still washes over - as always.
Thanks for brightening my day, yet again.
I love his happy voice. It never get's old to me !
Since 1979, never let a day go by!! My life would not be the same without you!
Belize? more like paradise. sweet melody and breeze that just feels right.
Cheers,
Meg
May Jerry Jeff live forever. Love him. Looks like he finally got off that L.A. Freeway without gettin' killed or caught. God Bless Him.
I love this song - one day it will be my theme tune
Is it? I went. I found his house. I took pics. He was already gone for 7 months though. And I only took selfies with his place with my mask on. Dang. lol
My humbly RESPECT to you and the band it was very beautiful it makes my heart cry cause here in Belize we live in paradise and yet some of us dont know that every thing is possible here DOWN IN BELIZE thanks once again Mr. Jerry Jeff Walker some day we shall meet ONELOVE and TRULOVE PEACE
Three years later and I still go back to this. I also enjoyed his duet with Todd Snider doing Mr. Bojangles. Even hoarse Jerry Jeff is a better singer than most.
one of my all time favourites, thanks
What a nice song. Happy men like just what they've got. Yes. Love the guitar, such tasteful playing and beautiful tone. I have to listen to it twice, once for the words and melody and again just to appreciate the guitar playing.
I am happy to say I have seen Jerry Jeff more than once. I remember in particular at the Celebrity, in Phoenix. He brought the place down.
Look's like Jerry Jeff's still "kickin'and stompin' and sleepin' with his socks on". He's always been my favorite.
more than 30 years of soul food ...still works for me! alltime fav
One of the Greatest voices in Music Period!
This is simply beautiful :)
Totally beautiful. No one can say JJW doesn't sing "soul music'' ... because it's plain to see and hear .. that's where it's comin' from. Bravo !
PS: I'm knockin' myslef out to find a video I didn't mark. JJW, Garth Brooks singing in a huge rain storm, I believe at S.Padre Island. I've entered every word I can, and can't find it again. ;( I think they were singing Texas On My Mind (????) They were having SUCH a great time, in the downpour. It's a keeper!!!! ;)
Beautiful! 💕
Aww, one of the sweetest guys on the planet!
excellent Song.God Bless You .J.J.W.
I love Jerry he's a great artist... Keep on rocking Jerry...
Love this song and JJW! RIP.
Meraviglioso Jerry Jeff!
What an amazing voice
Come join us for Camp Belize next January. Jerry Jeff is right. San Pedro days go slow. Your heart never leaves once you've been down in Belize.
Texas legend....this song takes you away from all that hurts for 4:14
Thank you sir for helping to promote my country nice song too. Love it
Mr. Bojangle. Sweeter than honey and a reflection on our lives. Yes i was homeless and now i'm not. In belize or in...
BTW that's Jimmy Ibbotson singing harmony and playing mandolin. He was with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and came down to Belize with Jerry in May 2008. Great singer and hella good guy.
I loved Belize back in the early 80's when I first visited. Although I enjoyed San Pedro for a few days , couldn't get a Chef's gig there way back when. Then I found Phuket ,Thailand in 1985 and foggettabout Belize ! Great lobster dinners but too many angry people working un-happily IMHO A few good drinking spots , now 30 years later it may be better. I hope it is ,cause there were allot of good folks trying to do right too!!! Now I live in Naklua near Pattaya . I Produced 2 concerts with Jerry Jeff in Steamboat Springs ,Colorado in 80's. I actually had met him in NOLA in '75 0r '76 when Jimmy Buffett & The Corral Reefer Band opened for Jerry Jeff.Great show all-around !!!!!
I was out on Ambergris Caye in '82 when the fanciest hotel was one like an old Holiday Inn back in the Capital City. That was their one year Independence Celebration. It was like walking around in a 1940's Humphrey Bogart movie. There was a 3,000 s.f. thatch roofed home just up the beach from the Victoria House out on Ambergris I tried talking my retired folks into buying for $100,000 cash. They preferred buying much larger quantities on rivers and lake in the Arkansas Ozarks. That two acres of beachfront land would have sold for more than all their properties in Arkansas.
Earlier, I was the Head Bouncer at the Little Bear Saloon in Evergreen where I had a ranch five miles and about 1,000' above Evergreen, before I was hired to produce concerts and be Road Manger out of Nashville and New York.
When Jerry Jeff played Red Rocks, Michael Murphey opened up for him.
When YOU met Jerry Jeff in '75 or '76, his band was the one my Brother Dave Perkins put together.
Dave is who I wound up as Concert Producer and Road Manager for with my second team in Nashville.
Dave told me he and one of the other guys from Jerry Jeff's band pulled a stunt while Murphey was out doing his thing playing Geronimo's Cadillac. I'd first met Murphey (and became friends with Ray Wylie Hubbard) while I was a mountain, fishing and hunting guide out of and above Red River, New Mexico in the early 70's, then he moved up to Evergreen for a while, or the Conifer area to be more exact. (A "suburb" of Evergreen at the time and about 18 miles over to the east in the mountains. Now the whole are is "Denver West". Bummer.)
I think the guy's name was Leo, who also played in JJ's band who did this with Dave.
Dave came out behind Murphey from one side of the stage while "Leo" came out from the other, both doing that "Pocahontas straight up Dance (not to be confused with a Straight Dance, which is an old style Plains War Dance... I've produced a number of Powwows and helped create and start Red Earth in Oklahoma City) met and passed ech other while they both had their arms folded, high stepping and then patting their mouths while "woo-wooing" across the stage behind Murphey.
When the crowd started roaring, he thought it was for him. Jerry Jeff was cracking up, but told Dave to not do that anymore.
We did a number of shows with Jerry Jeff and he'd make sure to come see us when we'd be playing in NYC at the Lone Star Cafe (with the Blues Brothers, etc.) or at Kenny's Kastaways on Bleeker Street in the Village. We played with him at someplace in Philadelphia too, but I had too many Cheese Steaks to remember the place's name now.
Fun times. Too bad we haven't crossed paths in person because we've certainly crossed footprints.
I use to work at Your Father's Mustache on 7th Ave.& 10the St. , it closed and became a C&W Club .....forget the name but I had moved to Norfolk ,Va, at the end of 1968 , wound up doing HAIR @ Tidewater Dinner Theater , allot of NYC Equity Actors knew our owner and worked under different names ,so no Union gigs ,which was the only way we could afford some actors.I also did GUYS&DOLLS ,PROMISES
If you were bouncer at the Little Bear in '74 or '75, you may have bounced me out of there! I lived at Swiss Haven on Upper Bear Creek. We used to go see Michael Murphey play at the T Bar S before anyone had heard of Wildfire. The day the T Bar S burned down we sat by the ashes and mourned.
O yes He will be missed.I started listening to Him in 1974 at KFAT Radio inGilroy That was on Hell of a Party Place I smoked a Lot of good Weed in that Place?
Jerry Jeff meets Jimmy Buffett. Oh, I forgot they met before....and even lived together when they were starting off and co-wrote the classic "Railroad Lady."
Great tune by a Great Storyteller!
Incredible music.
What Melodies! He truly speaks of what he knows.
Jimmy Buffet can thank Jerry Jeff a lot for his style. Jerrry Jeff is the greatest.
Great song, great guy
The guy playing mandolin wearing the denim shirt is Jimmy Ibbotson, the former lead singer of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Jimmy has an incredible voice and sang the hit "Fishin In the Dark."
John prine Jerry Jeff and Nancy last couple of years has been rough RIP
Off Monday for another Camp Belize. Y'all need to come down. It's paradise.
A voice as bright as the smile.
Still Rockin' it. Love his stuff.
wow what a song makes me want to go to Belize!
Holy whatever! I LOVE Jerry Jeff! Love his voice, looking for more from him. I actually want to marry him.
Buy your tickets NOW for the 2017 Jerry Jeff Walker Birthday Bash. It's an AMAZING concert.
Join us down in San Pedro January 3-10 2010. It'll be my 4th Camp Belize and it's always a blast.
Pure magic.....😎🎸
I have been to Belize a few times and enjoyed San Pedro very much. It still looks very original with the caribbean feel, the huge corporations with fancy restaurants and boutique shops have Not made itthere yet. Belize City is not nice, but the districts (inland) are nice. very hot and humid. Loved Benque Viejo in the Cayo District.
Jerry Jeff allwways betters my mood
Great song!
That just makes me smile!
Me too!
OH MY!! I JUST LOVE THIS!
MY OLD BUD Known him since 73
I got to take JJW bathing suit shopping in Stuart FL years ago. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jazzed about the experience.
Anche J. J. WALKER ci ha lasciato, la musica, la buona musica non esiste più.
yep, his voice cudda improved over time. I doan c how with allo that Terlingua dust. Belize musta cleaned that out. Sweet, beautiful, uno.
God speed good fellow - may you party on in heaven
Never realized how much he looks like former NFL quarterback Archie Manning. Jerry Jeff's voice and songwriting are still first-string.
You're awesome Jerry Jeff
R I P old friend.
happy birthday dear Jerry Jeff xo
Sandy Currie
Amazing song
If you get a chance go to his birthday bash in Austin at the Paramount on Saturday night or at Gruen Hall on Sunday night....good times. This is a very good song by an older much more mellow JJW.
Bo Jangles would have loved that tune. See ya soon JJ.
MAY YOU REST IN PEACE MY FRIEND.
Somebody asked me if I thought I could be
Happy living all my days down in Belize
And I though why not
I always like it hot
So I started listing reasons why I like it there
Sunny days of fishing in the salty air
And the stars at night
There ain’t no ambient light
The good life gives you what you need
And I believe happiness counts a lot
They say successful men get what they want
Happy men want just what they got
And the good life for me comes naturally
Down in Belize
Ya the island where we live is small and intertwined
They got their own pace they call it island time
When they say right away they just may not mean today
They say what’s your hurry man don’t worry
Don’t you know San Pedro Days go slow
The island life will get you
Pretty soon it sets you
Down into a slower mode
That’s when all your tensions go
I say the mode of dress is flip-flops and an old t-shirt
Cut-offs, straw hat, sunglasses won’t hurt
Cause it’s a sunny day
I always like it that way
People are all friendly oh they love themselves
When they get into trouble they help each other out
It’s the Christian way
I always like it that way
Ya the good life gives you what you need
And I believe happiness counts a lot
Successful men get what they want
Happy men want just what they got
And the good life for me comes naturally
Down in Belize
Doo doo, doo, doo doo,
Doo, doo doo, doo doooo
Doo doo, doo, doo doo
Doo doo do ooooo
Well Ill be damned. What a find.
Emigrated to Belize one week after the November debacle (US presidential election), and will never return to the US to reside. That said, what's NOT to love about Belize or like about J2W?
Norman, is that you? You get your ass back here,son.