Suzy Bogguss and Jerry Jeff Walker – Night Rider’s Lament
TWO WANDERING VOICES, ONE COWBOY SONG, AND THE OPEN WESTERN SKY When Suzy Bogguss sat beside Jerry Jeff Walker to sing “Night Rider’s Lament,” the performance became more than music.…
TWO WANDERING VOICES, ONE COWBOY SONG, AND THE OPEN WESTERN SKY When Suzy Bogguss sat beside Jerry Jeff Walker to sing “Night Rider’s Lament,” the performance became more than music.…
In the Worn Wooden Air of Gruene Hall, Jerry Jeff Walker Sang Like a Man Speaking to Time Itself When Jerry Jeff Walker performed “Little Bird” at Gruene Hall in…
BEFORE OUTLAW COUNTRY UNITED THE HIPPIES AND THE REDNECKS, RAY WYLIE HUBBARD GOT BEAT UP TRYING TO BUY BEER Long before Outlaw Country became a celebrated movement, before Willie Nelson…
A Song About Leaving Before the World Hardens You: How “LA Freeway” Captured the Spirit of Escape In 1978, on The Dinah Shore Show, Jerry Jeff Walker performed “LA Freeway”…
The Last Voice at the Bar: How “Man in the Big Hat” Preserved the Cowboy Before He Disappeared Around 1990, on Texas Connection, Jerry Jeff Walker performed “Man in the…
A Summer Night in a Song: How “Sangria Wine” Turned a Small Town Stage into Something Timeless On June 16, 2000, in Vergennes, Vermont, Jerry Jeff Walker stepped onto a…
A Song That Turned a Stranger’s Story into a Timeless American Memory In 1976, on the quietly historic stage of Austin City Limits, Jerry Jeff Walker performed “Mr. Bojangles”, the…
When Heartbreak Finds Its Voice in the Ghost of Hank Williams In 1989, on the television stage of Nashville Now, Jerry Jeff Walker introduced a new song from his Tried…
A Toast to Friendship, Memory, and the Road That Changed Everything On July 8, 2021, in Nashville, Jimmy Buffett stood before a devoted crowd and reached back into his past,…
A Life Lived Between Highways and Songs, Where Freedom Meant Everything In the year 2000, Jerry Jeff Walker sat down for an intimate conversation in what feels less like an…