A conversation with Susan and Jerry Jeff Walker - June 2018 

I’m still reeling from Jerry Jeff’s death. Stumbled across this. His music has sustained me since I heard him live for the first time in the 70s. I listen to him almost every day.

God bless you Jerry Jeff Walker I'm going to miss our conversations. He went home to be with the Lord today October 23rd

A good friend turned me on to Jerry Jeff in the mid eighties and I fell in love with it immediately. He has the most soulful heartfelt voice that captures you at the first note. R.I.P. my old friend

Thank you Hector Saldaña for making this interview part of Texas history.

He has given so much. He is a true American storyteller in the flesh. A genuine soul. We love and respect this man. He is eternal.

RIP Buddy, thanks for all the great times over these past 50 years🙏🏻🎶❤️

He had a way of touching your soul and painting a picture all at the same time. Beautiful voice, heart and mind.

Bless Susan for blessing Jerry's life. She has done a spectacular job of it. 😎🎶🌺🌸🐬🌈❣💜💜✨

First heard Jerry Jeff while in the Army at around 18 years old My Old Charlie Dunn L.A Freeway etc..now 62 and still cant get enough. Saw Jerry Jeff in Melbourne Australia in the 70s and talked my way into the dressing room after the show...shook his hand and gave him a letter. Back then I had to import his albums which took months. Guy Clarke toured here many times sadly we have yet to see Jerry Jeff again. So hope to hear him live again somehow. In spirit he has been at every camp fire every get to together and every lonely night. I often wonder if he realizes how his work shaped the rambling of a young man half the world away for over 40 years. Getting by on getting by.......cheers from Melbourne Australia.......hilly.. PS Hector Saldaña for whats its worth ask a short question and then shut up..lol...don't answer your own questions...ahhhhhh...:)

Jerry Jeff was a total troubadour. Keep ya’ in stitches with his stories. Love the man. Glad he touched on “Stoney”. Rest in Heaven!🎶🥃

I wonder if Jerry Jeff realizes what he may mean to many people. Just my life, I heard him first in 1997, when I was 32. It was a year in which JJW never left my cassette player. And I have been LOVIN all his music ever since. Jerry Jeff, I love you man.

4 minutes in and I'm quitting. RIP Jerry Jeff !

Completely impressed. He actually is the kind of man I always thought he was. Loving and caring, just trying to get by the vest way he knows how.

Thank you Jerry Jeff, for adding the color to the last 45 years.

Great. And the young lady that sang is terrific.

Despite the interviewer doing a terrible job this is worth the watch. A few good moments. How not to interview someone.

I saw Jerry Jeff Walker at the Royal Oak Theater in in the mid-70s. He opened for Tom Waits. It was a strange pairing and I was there to see Tom Waits. Jerry Jeff Why was my introduction to country music. There's a lot of concerts I don't remember, but I'm glad that one stuck with me. It wasn't until the last couple of years that I started digging in to the people that he was friends with and associated with in his younger days. Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Blaze Foley, John Prine, Steve Goodman, etc. Some of the best music I have ever heard and I now listen to almost exclusively. For that alone I thank him for playing that Detroit gig.

There is no place better to see Jerry Jeff and The Lost Gonzo Band than Luckenbach dance hall. Glad I done it twice. Sublime with yer beer...

Big fan since the early 1970's and the Armadillo Club. Got to see him once about 1976 but he was way to stoned to remember. Love his music and the mark he made on the industry and us all.

this is just great. Jerry Jeff's music is like an old friend. Soundtrack to my life. My only critique is that the MC/moderator talks way to much. Shut up and let Jerry talk.

I have several Jerry Jeff stories and fabulous concert photos of him from the mid-70s. After one concert in Atlanta, several friends were hanging out in a rare cowboy bar. Jerry Jeff and I were standing there just conversing when my drunk sister-in-law walked up to the bar next to Jackety Jack and bellowed out, "Jerry Jeff Walker sucks." He looked at me and I at him, and I said, "I don't think she much likes you." He laughed it off, and we went on talking. When I said something using his name, my sister-in-law realized who I was talking with and ducked away to the other side of the bar.

Rachel's rendition of Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles" was brilliantly beautiful. Jerry Jeff's passing marks the end of an era. May he rest in peace. Thanks for the music, Jerry Jeff.

Jerry Jeff was a true American treasure, and it's sad that this interviewer completely ruined a great opportunity to get out of the way and let him shine.

My lifetime music hero, we love you Jerry Jeff Walker

Loved your music and I played it live many times

For Jerry Jeff fans, this was a real opportunity to learn just so much more about him. Yes, have read Gypsy Songman, however the books narrative ends decades ago. Susan didn't seem overly enthusiastic, she no doubt had her reasons. However, as has been mentioned, the potentially informative "interview" was basically wrecked by the interviewer doing so much talking & fans not learning much more than in the past. Contrast this with the excellent Green Room interview, easily found on YT, where the interviewer had done some research and the far shorter time provided far more information to true Jerry Jeff fans. A great opportunity missed here.

The interview turned out okay, but the three and a half minute lead in question by the interviewer prior to his guests speaking was rediculous.

Did some tell him the goal was to hear what JJ and Susan wanted to say.

This would have been great if the host had shut his mouth and let Jerry talk more.

What a nice treat to hear from both JJW and Susan. Agree with comments about the long winded interviewer, but in his defense that can be a tough job, especially if it's just something you do on occasion.

Howdy all and God Bless our Gypsy Songman. It's easy to criticize this program's MC if you don't know the whole story. The health concerns that ultimately took Jerry Jeff Walker from us all were already making full length interviews tough for him when this was recorded. I believe that Mr. Saldaña was asked to lessen the burden on him for that reason. He had many meetings with both Jerry Jeff and Susan Walker leading up to this and they gave their full support for the program. Saldaña has a long and successful career both in music and in music journalism. It's why he was given the incredible responsibility to be the Wittliff Collection's first ever music curator. I hope y'all all get a chance to visit the Collection sometime... pretty good excuse to get off that Freeway!

Saldana's ego is out of control. What an A.H. If he had any balls and self-respect, he'd post an apology.

Met the whole family in St Thomas in 1986 at a club. Wife and kids selling tee shirts. A great one man show for 3 hours non stop.

Jerry Jeff ganged the crowd up against me one night. My daughter couldn’t be at the Concert in Waco so I called her and said listen to Jerry Jeff and he screamed to the crowd , “He’s on his cell phone”. I just smiled because I know Jerry Jeff speaks his mind.

The host ruined this video. Couldn't watch 5 minutes of the "interview" (read: monologue).

I was tending bar at a Chi Chi's in Fort Lauderdale in 1980 when this new manager walking past the bar heard me quietly singing STONEY to myself. The guy was from Oklahoma and it must have flipped him out because that was the stuff that he'd grown up on. Not many people in Florida were fluent in JJW's music. He pulled me aside and asked "how do you know Jerry Jeff Walker?" We wound up being good friends.

That interveiwer sure liked his own voice

Susan and Jerry wondering why thy were invited?

One of my heroes!

This would have been a great interview without the interviewer.

Great fact finding interview he sure found a beautiful wife through life what a guy.

Spent almost the entire video thinking "Shut up, shut up, shut up!" We did not need to know every nuance of the interviewer's experience with the music! What a waste of Jerry's and Susan's time, and ours! I hope that guy was never allowed to interview anyone else again.

I was there when Jerry Jeff did this album in Luckenbach - quite a time.

Its not about you host - keep it short!!

All performers owe it to their fans to not smoke and a few other things… as we are sad when they had 10 years plus in them

Susan is my cousin. Always been beautiful. RIP JJW, and "Hi Cuz."

Fantastic !!!! I loved this . Smiles 😀👏👏👏👏

desperado no longer waiting for a train. RIP

Tell this interviewer to get a different job. Hope somebody edits this and removes him.

The young lady at the start reminds me a great deal of Nancy Griffith. Well done.

What the heck is wrong with the interviewer? We don't want to hear him ramble and talk, and talk, and talk. We want to hear Jerry Jeff. This guy is a TERRIBLE interviewer!

Jerry Jeff was a dear friend of mine & Bob's

these two are very special.

That is for sure

Where the hell did this guy get “bro country “ to mention Texas Country in the same sentence ? The interviewer has no clue what he is talking about.

Not halfway through, love and miss Jerry Jeff. Love to his family. Fuck “bro county”. Wtf

Great picture of Ian Tyson on the wall

Jerry Jeff one of my favorites. I ideal concert would be Jerry Jeff, Jimmy Buffett with my man Willie and Toby Keith.

This could have been a great interview if this MC would have shut up.

Love it.

Gonna get me a Pickup truck...Thanks Jerry.

Why did Waylon and Willie become so much bigger than Jerry Jeff? I am a huge Waylon fan but this guy is just as good.

kick butt at the Kerrville Folk Festival is special. You go gal.

Oh Susanna Don't you cry babe

God bless Big man

There is a video for the "Tiny Desk" concert series of Jackson Browne where "The Angel" shows up for the second song of the set ... which of course is the subject of the song "That Ol' Beat Up Guitar" ... I think it was a loaner from Guy Clark or Billy Joe Shaver and sure enough Jerry Jeff gave it away ... at least that is one version I've heard

Good stuff

Do you know that toby keith was not signed until 30!?? He had made a commitment to quit unless he was signed by 30. So dont get discouraged as some hit machines were passed over until… that ONE

This MC is exhausting.

......none of the girls are as pretty as Susan but I like some that I see.....RIP Jerry Jeff.

HEY RACHEL LAVEN!

This interviewer is a waste to JJW and his time. JJW first words are at 21:05. SO FAST FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lovely rendition of Bojangles

And Jimmy Buffett

That interviewer is an egotistical monster.

18:30 for Jerry

No matter what answer either of them gave the interviewer, he wasnt satisfied and kept pressing for another answer, or more detail. Maybe that was his intention but it looked like it was pissing them off after a while

OH MY GOSH I wanna meet him!!

It's never a good sign when the interviewer talks more than who he's interviewing.

Take the mic away from curly...

Maybe the most obnoxious interviewer I have ever encountered! Horrific.....

crap interviewer(no offence). "we did it to be tender but tough..." One of JJW's best summaries of not only the motivations but also the times. He was the flour *AND* the pepper in the roux of the cosmic gumbo that became THE Austin sound(Willie was probably the butter!). Don't forget...most of that crowd went on to nuture and focus the sound and ethos of early punk(look it up !). Susan, the ultimate Austin salon inspiration...her impact on the *ART* of the word might not be fully appreciated for many a year(100s, perhaps...teach your young ones to keep an eye on it). Truly historic. Comfort and condolences to all who are processing this most recent goodbye...

The interviewer talks way to much. Ask a question and let Jerry Jeff talk..

"she's the mother of their kids." far too much rambling about nothing really.

"Collectibles" was the one that "got er done"...

Twenty three minutes befo Jerry Jeff speaks

Dude likes to hear himself

Would be a lot better if the interviewer would shut up🙄 RIP Jerry Jeff

I love JJW, but hate Mr Bojangles lol

I agree the interviewer was just a corny a hole RIP Jerry Jeff Walker we all love and miss you Viva Terlingua Forever and God bless beautiful Lukenbach Texas

That guy should just shut up

Heh heh, cowboy in pictures.

75% of this video is this clown yapping

Why do Hippies drink water out of plastic bottles?

This interviewer rambles waaaaaay too much

Someone tell the interviewer to shut up! I didn't tune in to hear him.

No

Jerry Jeff is an American music legend. This interviewer was not even close to having a high school level interviewer skill level. Very poor job on the interviewer's part.

Great show UNTIL the wife/manager/politician concort had her nasty comment about the President leaving! You lost me!!! - why/how was that necessary?

JJW is why I was here Hard to ‘see’ him though FWIW nearly 100% of Guthrie and Dillon are a waste of my time. Political noise with occasionally decent musical construction. You can listen to two hours of JJW, however, and never hear any drivel.