Takes me back to the 70's when I was young Jerry Jeff. Saw you live in Australia once. I'm 70 now but I will always remember those wonderful crazy days.Thanks so much for the wonderful music.
This is the most Jammin version of this song I`ve ever heard !!! IF You can DIG IT there`s nothing any better,,Memories just start flowing while You listen!! An all time favorite !!!
one of the greatest voices and songwriters in the music world... not only country music is gone. So unmistakeable... RIP Jerry Jeff! Thanks for the words and melodies
I started with Dylan, Duane Allman, Waylon, Willie but something about Jerry Jeff made everything seem possible. I have been a singer songwriter guitar player since the mid 70's, still writing and playing in a band at 75. He was an incredible inspiration. He just made it look so damned easy. It isn't. RIP my brother.
Saw him in ‘73 and had never heard of him. Was visiting a HS friend in Tx He came out w/ a big buzz going on no doubt and goes “Hello Houston, I’m Jackie Jack Walker and this here is the Lost Gonzo Band” Kicked it off with Getting by on Getting Bys And I turned to my buddy & said I thought you said his name was Jerry Jeff He looked at me and grinned and said It is What a great memory! RIP JJW You were a big part of “my” soundtrack!
A few years ago my wife and I were at the Texas State Fair. She was looking around in a tent with stuff for sale, and I hear a familiar singer but wasn't sure who it was. I went out to the Chevy concert stage and there he was. What a great thing to randomly hear him singing and playing.
This did not bring a tear to my eye...I cried. I grew up in the 70s with Jerry Jeff, but I had no idea how much his music spoke to me until I got "old". I liked it, but now... I love it. I grew up with old men like the one he sings of; so much wisdom, and such a loss when they leave. I ain't preaching, but if you've a mind to, do yourself a favor, and just sit and listen to some old folks
I never grew up in the 70s but every other word you said i can totally agree 1000%, John Prine 'Hello In There' is a great example of appreciating old folk and this song does bring a tear to my eye, the version on the Letterman show with Guy Clark has me out of tissues.
I know an old man like that. He's not my father but we shared a lot of good bourbon and talked for hours on end. He was kind of stove up from arthritis so I used to go by and help him out with stuff; tuning up cars, cleaning out the garage, etc. and he would slip me a few bucks, buy me a 6 pack. He's still alive and kicking at 70+ years and one of the best "outlaws" I've ever had to pleasure to know. God Bless you John
if you don't love this, I pity you. Jerry Jeff telling of the future that sadly has come to be. HE was our old man and grandma's boyfriend. I thank God for my older brothers, who each one in their own way have been this old man for me.
Jerry Jeff was very progressive, and this music was called "Cosmic Country" at the time, even though it is now more "Country Country" than anything coming out of Nashville.
"One day I looked up and he's pushin' 80" is so true the older you get. In your twenties life is all in front of you. I am close to 60 and wonder where did time go, it went so damn fast. I have more past than future that is for sure. Do not waste your life. Have a dream? Chase it. People treat you bad? Walk away. Do not wait for people to change, they won't. I miss grandma's husband. He was tougher than anyone I have ever known. In his 70's he mopped the floor of a bar with two loud mouth jerks.
Same age, and a Texan lived in austin off & on, but always loved the hill country. Remember when Congress avenue.was ironically enough , was hookers row? Jerry Jeff and many others was when Austin was the best kept in Texas 🤣
I'm 63 and my daughter is 31. I've been trying to explain to her you need to get your ducks in a row while your life is ahead of you. She sent her daughter to a boy girl party a few weeks ago and she realized it flies by when you look at kids. She got it much younger than I did.
As a Scot, living in a country that gets more than it's fair share of miserable weather, I bless the day I discovered the music of JJW. BRINGS SUNSHINE INTO MY LIFE EVERY TIME I HEAR HIS VOICE. Sadly missed!!!!!!!
JJ had an easy singing voice, but most of the songs he sang were other people’s. Desperados Waiting For a Train is a Guy Clark song. Guy had a hell of a lot of good songs. Another singer/ storyteller named Todd Snider followed JJ around for years. You might like Guy and Todd.
After this song ended , I just sat here ... stunned. JJW is a legend, yet still oblivious to some people like me, who just found him, quite by accident. What a total thrill to experience Jerry Jeff and his friends. All over-the-top talents!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I re-discovered him recently having first found him in 1977 (It's a Good Night for Singing), now every song I listen to is a new treasure discovered. This song reminds me of Henry Paul and the Outlaws.
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Great Song with great feelings. Thank you to Guy Clark for writing this great song, Thanks to Jerry Jeff Walker for this truly amaizing rendition, and thanks to whomever posted this to RU-vid.
I have seen Jerry aka Ronald Clyde Crosby in concert in 1998 at the Red River Opry in Tempe, Arizona and got his autograph then - I sing his song Charlie Dunn - RIP Jerry
hits my heart hard.. this woulda been my daddy and his fav grand kid... old 58 chevy truck.. the domino hall.. smoking on mamas porch.. may they both rest in peace...
This makes me sob whether I'm sober or not my grandpa's old buddy's called my sidekick and this is exactly me and my ol papa I love and miss him more than ever now that I know I could have had more time with him I love you Carl Shirley you made me who I am today I hope you are waiting for that train for me old man I'll always be your desperado
Thanks Jerry!! Will miss your music - you sang for the love of the music - and for those who were - and still are your fans - great stories - wisdom - humor and inspiration - not just for the money - ( pretty hollow!) always felt you were singin to a small intimate group of us ! Hope you are still singin and playin on the other side!!
My home town near Austin had a place just like the Green Frog Cafe, complete with old men playing dominoes. I saw Jerry Jeff, Willie and Waylon perform at the Armadillo World Headquarters in 1989 from about 35 feet away.
this brings back the 70's for alot of us...clubs like the Abby Inn, Whiskey River, The Annex Mr Bojangles, Silver Eagle Mining Company, the last two of which I worked, hasn't been the same. these songs I teach my sons about Texas...miss those days.
I knew him ---- just briefly. But I can tell U this much.... he lived the very life he sang about. There's nothing false about this great guy. Thank God he's still around. We should all feel blessed. Because we are --- all of us. Even Jerry Jeff! All I can say is this --- he made my life better. And I'm a singer on the road, too. But JJ has something!
This is a tune that characterizes the relationship with young boys and the important men in their lives. The Men they try to emulate, the men they want to be like when "they grow up." I reckon we only truly grow up after our heros die, and we become some other youngster's hero. It is a Great Melody and Guy Clarke wrote this in gold ink with a silver pen as far as this cowboy is concerned.
@@donaldprice342 Actually he told me himself he was from Oswego, we were hanging out after an all nighter jam session at Hill on the Moon studio outside of Austin in the hill country. While we were playing I watched him drink till he was sober. Never saw anyone do that in all my years.
@@janeminotti2154 He told me Oswego, kind of hard to forget a name like that. But of course we'd been drinking and smoking all night in to the morning.
Jerry and Guy are some of the best, not many making this kind of music ( country, folk, rock ? what ever you want to call it). One of the benefits of aging is remembering venues like The Starlight Ballroom in Snook, very good times there in late 70's early '80's. A good place to live full of a good mix of people. Thank you
I have a hard time picking up.jerry jeff again but can't put him down. Don't need a lot of heroes, just gotta pick the right ones@! Boy did I get this one right! Love him to death!
Desperados. Reminds me of my grandpa as well. I must of been 10 or 12. Sinton Tx. We'd walk 3 miles out of town on the railroad tracks to get to Rob & Bessie Welder Park, to the Sinton Municipal Golf Course. Where he would pick up golf balls at the driving range. And I would caddy. That's the time when we would put peanuts in our Frostie root beer soda pop. In the Good Old Summertime! Love you grandpa!
For me this song this is about my mom's best friend's mother ... i spent alot of years with her and our last visit was sitting at the kitchen table drinking beer and talking. i then was moving back to my home state and visiting her was my first plan. Instead I had to go to the funeral home to see her. She caught her train...20+ years I dearly miss our time together
OMG it sure is. Bob Fass played Mister Bojangles on "Radio Unnameable" in around 1967 and always played Jerry again off and on through the decades and tonight I heard the archive from last week's "RU" and Bob played a fragment of "Desperados"... once again, and later I tuned into this page to hear it completely, and saw he died. RIP to the BEST singer songwriter in town...anywhere, anytime!!!
I've been a fan of Jerry Jeff and Guy Clark for years. I used to go see both of them live whenever I could. I lived in Houston and there was this great night club called the Old Quarter, Townes Van Zandt played there some as well. Dusty Hill and his brother Rocky plaid blues there before Dusty joined ZZ Top. Lots of great stars played in that club.
I heard JJ play this one night at Billy Bob's Texas many many years ago. The Baylor women have senior day tomorrow I swear I've never seen anything like it the whole crowd was on top of tables swinging in rhythm. Man what a night.
I've looked for years for this version of this song. Heard it in Fargo ND. back in the 70"s. All recordings end just as the last jamm starts. This brought tears to my eyes and a smile to my heart. Thanks
I was there in May of 1974 ,14 years old with a very good friend by the name of Norman Marshall, who got me my first cowboy hat from his family business in Marshall Texas called the American Hat Company, God bless Texas
OMG I didn't know he just died! Bob Fass always loved to play this song on his Radio Unnameable (wbai) show and played it again last Thursday and that's why I tuned into this, wanted to hear the entire song.... RIP Jerry Jeff. I knew you because of Bob and that wonderful amazing show of his...
