Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua
|
List Price: Our Price: $7.97 You Save: $2.01 (20%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $4.64 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Viva Terlingua
Free Music Review: The Essence of Texas
Hit: 5 Stars
Around the time that I was discovering bluegrass and country music (and making my first, furtive attempts at covering said material in a band), one of my bandmates suggested (actually, pretty much insisted) that I listen to "Viva Terlingua." Happily, this was one of the best pieces of advice I've ever received. Jerry Jeff's rich and gravely baritone is the perfect delivery vessel of this wonderful mix of his own material and the songs of Guy Clark, Gary P. Nunn, Michael Murphy, and the immortal Ray Wiley Hubbard. Hubbard's "Redneck Mother" and Nunn's "London Homesick Blues" became instant classics, making their way into any aspiring country/outlaw band's repetoire, but Walker's bouyant "Sangria Wine," moody "The Wheel," and Clark's "Desperados Waiting for a Train" are all terrific, and, really, there's not a track that you'd want to skip over. Hearing "Viva Terlingua" always makes me smile. I'm betting it will do the same for you, too.Free Music Review: where are you Viva
Hit: 1 Stars
I am looking forward to being able to review my most recent purchase
however after 5 weeks since despatch I am still waiting to recieve it.
Can anyone out there tell me where it is???
Free Music Review: TAKES ME BACK
Hit: 5 Stars
Takes me back to my highschool days when I first heard it on vinyl. Love it.Free Music Review: jerry jeff walker
Hit: 5 Stars
think of austin texas in the 70's...cool longneck beer and tubing down the comal river...this album was popular than and now..classics such as up against the wall redneck mother are still fun...a must for third coast music loversFree Music Review: One of My Favorite Albums of All Time...
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't even consider myself a country music fan, yet this album is in my top five favorites of all time, easily. You really can't categorize Jerry Jeff Walker as "country" anyway...
I think some call his brand of music "outlaw", "gonzo", etc. -- but whatever you want to call it, it is timeless.
Back in the early 70's, my parents used to have big parties, and they would put this album on -- and that was when the party really started. We kids would all be upstairs, listening to the songs and also to our parents getting rip-roaring drunk while shouting out "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother". Hearing those songs over and over, I knew all the words by the time I was about 7 years old!
After my dad died in 2002, I was going through his extraordinary album collection, and spotted this gem. I was so excited to find it, and took it quickly before my brother could get to it, LOL.
Other reviewers here have done a much better job at describing the songs, but I just wanted to add an "amen" to the chorus. I also wanted to confirm that you do NOT have to be a country music fan to love this music.
My husband (alternative rock fan) gave me a smirk and a "yeah right" when I told him it was not your ordinary country music. Needless to say (to JJW fans) he has changed his tune, and is now a big fan himself.
Nobody, and I do mean NObody, could play it like Jerry Jeff. Long live Terlingua!!