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Guy Clark cover...
Posted: November 9, 2006 10:19 pm
by barbieann
Do you know if Jimmy Buffett ever covered Guy Clark's LA Freeway song at some point?
I know I'm just a newbie here, so I'm sure that somebody will know the answer for me.
Re: Guy Clark cover...
Posted: November 9, 2006 10:39 pm
by jonesbeach10
barbieann wrote:Do you know if Jimmy Buffett ever covered Guy Clark's LA Freeway song at some point?
I know I'm just a newbie here, so I'm sure that somebody will know the answer for me.
Try here:
http://www.buffettnews.com/songs.html
Posted: November 9, 2006 11:02 pm
by ragtopW
I love this song..
Posted: November 10, 2006 12:06 am
by chuck wagon
I've heard a number of Jerry Jeff covers of it, but never one by Jimmy. But, I could be wrong. Have you checked the song list like jonesbeach10 suggested?
Posted: November 10, 2006 1:22 am
by conched
I've never heard of Jimmy covering L. A. Freeway. Heard JJW and Roger Creager versions.
Here is the allmusic guide listing.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:842256
Kind of a neat tool to use. This is only for songs that appear on albums and not covers from live concerts, but I don't remember Jimmy ever covering the song.
The only Guy Clark song I have heard Jimmy do is
Boats to Build and now
Cinco De Mayo.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:173933
Posted: November 10, 2006 6:23 am
by RinglingRingling
if you see a song on p2p with Buffett in the title, check the discography first, then see if it is a live recording that he did a "one and off" of. Rupert Holmes and Austin Campbell get shafted regularly because some moron without ears labeled "The Pina Colada Song" and "The I-95 Song" as Jimmy Buffett's.
Trying to convince people that it isn't him, when "The label on the file says it is so it is", is like trying to convince a Rove Repub that the light shining from Cheney's butt isn't the sun but Shrub coming out for some air.
Posted: November 10, 2006 8:34 am
by CaptainP
On August 7, 2002, Jimmy played a show with Jerry Jeff Walker at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett NY.
Jimmy did 8 songs, Jerry did 10. They played together on just 3.
L.A. Freeway was played during that set, but it was on of the songs that Jerry played without Jimmy.
http://www.buffettnews.com/show1030.html
Posted: November 10, 2006 8:41 am
by CaptainP
Keep in mind, though, that the setlist archive is incomplete. Many, many shows before 1984 are missing. From 1985 on, it's fairly complete.
Posted: November 10, 2006 9:49 am
by Pleasin & Teasin
I'm sure I've heard a bootleg of Mr Walker and Mr Buffett doing LA Freeway together....maybe on one of those called 'rare'? I'll have to check......
Posted: November 23, 2006 6:21 pm
by ragtopW
Also Jim Morris does it..
Posted: November 23, 2006 7:50 pm
by conched
Hey, ragtop, I had forgotten that Jim Morris does that one too. Love all his covers of the TEXAS guys' stuff.
Posted: November 23, 2006 7:59 pm
by aeroparrot
Don't forget Jim Morris doing LA Freeway.
Posted: November 24, 2006 12:36 am
by sonofabeach
aeroparrot wrote:
Don't forget Jim Morris doing LA Freeway.
actually let's forget it
....I usually like his JJW covers but this one has a karaoke-like feel to it to me.
Posted: November 24, 2006 3:45 pm
by Tiki Torches
sonofabeach wrote:aeroparrot wrote:
Don't forget Jim Morris doing LA Freeway.
actually let's forget it
....I usually like his JJW covers but this one has a karaoke-like feel to it to me.
L.A. Freeway is a Guy Clark original.
Unfortunately Buffett doesn't seem to have discovered Guy Clark until Boats To Build, if his covers are any sort of acknowledgment.
Posted: November 24, 2006 11:57 pm
by Pleasin & Teasin
There is no question that Mr Buffett was recorded singing LA freeway with Mr Walker....I heard it, and, as I recall, Mr Buffett was none too sure of the words....
I just cant remember what bootleg it was....possibly one from the Sausalito radio station in 1970s will try to remember to check my cds and see if i can figure it out
Posted: November 25, 2006 1:33 am
by phinhead
Jim Morris does a few JJW sonss. He does LA Freeway, Sangria Wine, and Redneck Mother. While it may sound kareoke on the cd, he does the stuff really well live.
Phin
Posted: November 25, 2006 1:40 am
by ragtopW
phinhead wrote:Jim Morris does a few JJW sonss. He does LA Freeway, Sangria Wine, and Redneck Mother. While it may sound kareoke on the cd, he does the stuff really well live.
Phin
well La Freway is JJW Via Guy Clark.. but he does those songs well
Posted: November 25, 2006 1:36 pm
by Tiki Torches
ragtopW wrote:phinhead wrote:Jim Morris does a few JJW sonss. He does LA Freeway, Sangria Wine, and Redneck Mother. While it may sound kareoke on the cd, he does the stuff really well live.
Phin
well La Freway is JJW Via Guy Clark.. but he does those songs well
Redneck Mothers is also not a JJW tune, it's by Ray Wylie Hubbard.
Posted: November 25, 2006 6:42 pm
by sonofabeach
I like Jerry Jeff's cover of L.A. Freeway better than Guy's version, especially Jerry Jeff's rockin' live version of it.
I also think that Jerry Jeff's take on Guy's "Boats To Build" was better than Jimmy and Alan's cover of it.
However I can listen to them all.
Posted: November 28, 2006 9:06 am
by LIPH
CaptainP wrote:On August 7, 2002, Jimmy played a show with Jerry Jeff Walker at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett NY.
Jimmy did 8 songs, Jerry did 10. They played together on just 3.
L.A. Freeway was played during that set, but it was on of the songs that Jerry played without Jimmy.
http://www.buffettnews.com/show1030.html
I'm listening to this show right now. Jerry Jeff does the lead vocals on LA Freeway but on the chorus you can hear a second voice in the background, I'm sure it's Buffett.