Today’s musitorial recalls singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker (nee Ronald Clyde Crosby, 1942-2020). A string of records for MCA and Elektra followed Walker's move to Austin, Texas before he gave up on the mainstream music business and formed his own independent record label, Tried & True Music, founded in 1986.
Walker's "Mr. Bojangles" (1968) is perhaps his best-known and most-often performed song. It is about an obscure alcoholic but talented tap-dancing drifter Walker had met who, when arrested and jailed in New Orleans, insisted on being identified only as "Bojangles.”
Though I did not follow Walker’s music very closely, I do have a favourite, and I recalled it this past weekend as newscast after newscast focused on the confusing series of emanations from the American President, Donald Trump, and some of his minions.
I can’t help but think that the cabal of congressmen-now-White-House-secretaries-of-whatevers, indeed the nation, are going to find themselves in a deluge of trouble one of these days. The blowback from Trumps barrage of dismissive missives will come, of that I’m certain: to haunt him, his “team,” his supporters and indeed the nation one of these days.
Jerry Jeff’s song, “Pissing in the Wind,” (album, Ridin’ High, Universal Music Group, 1975) should satisfy the need for some accompaniment to the days news quite nicely.
Enjoy.
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Link to YouTube recording of “Pissing in the Wind”: https://tinyurl.com/wv9cyazh
Link to Wikipedia article on Walker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jeff_Walker
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