After Townes and Guy, Steve Earle closes his lineage with Jerry Jeff. Walker, the only Texan by choice in the trio, went last the October before last but came first, then at fourteen when his drama teacher Earle “Mr. Bojangles” was enough. The much-covered classic has often obscured the view of how magnificently the New Yorker combined delicate poetry and a solid philosophy of life.
Walker’s mangy side is somewhat underrepresented
With “Gypsy Songman”, “Charlie Dunn”, “My Old Man” etc., his interpreter concentrates on the early work up to “¡Viva Terlingua!” (1973), which makes sense since Walker increasingly interpreted instead of writing himself. But his mangy side is somewhat underrepresented. Earle would hardly have failed on “Hairy Ass Hillbillies” or “Pissin’ In The Wind”.
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