The Lion in Winter:JJW at 70

[springparrot]

Really great article and Q&A with Jerry Jeff.

However, an interesting tidbit:
Your 70th birthday is coming up in March and you’ll be celebrating with your annual Birthday Shows at the Paramount Theatre here in Austin and at Gruene Hall …
I was talking to Buffett, he said, “Oh, 70! I better be there for that.” But I haven’t heard anything since then. Jimmy’s going stronger now than he was 20 years ago. He’s going to China to open another f**** Margaritaville (chuckles). It just keeps snowballing …
ps---he wasn't there....

Jerry Jeff Walker is turning 70.

Who’d of thunk it? Certainly no one who watched him tear a hedonistic path through a couple of decades of high times, late nights, recreational intoxicants and raucous, often inspired music. This was a guy, after all, who got so far out there that the story went that he got beat up by his own band. Even such connoisseurs of decadence as Dennis Hopper and Hunter S. Thompson gazed in awe as Jerry Jeff trashed one genteel enclave after another. (Writer Larry L. King once chronicled the time Walker — “looking like three months on field bivouac complicated by the blind staggers” — blitzed a Princeton cocktail reception).

http://www.lonestarmusic.com/magazine/m ... store.html

[lime rickie]

Nice article about Todd Snider and JJW in the NY Times this morning...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/us/to ... odayspaper

[Tiki Torches]

Nice article about Todd Snider and JJW in the NY Times this morning...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/us/to ... odayspaper

Thanks for that. Paste posted his version of "Sangria Wine" recently. For anyone interested in giving it a listen, you can do so here.

[sonofabeach]

Nice article about Todd Snider and JJW in the NY Times this morning...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/us/to ... odayspaper

Thanks for that. Paste posted his version of "Sangria Wine" recently. For anyone interested in giving it a listen, you can do so here.

I'm not the biggest Todd Snider fan but I think he does Sangria Wine justice.
Matter of fact, years ago the first JJW song I ever heard was Sangria Wine and I remember thinkin that Jerry Jeff was trying to sound a little drunk while singing it. I had no idea that was just the way that he sings. Todd captured that same feeling imo.