Saturday, April 25, 2026

Jerry Jeff Walker - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-20-1974

Here's another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This one stars Jerry Jeff Walker with his band.

Walker had a long music career. (He died in 2020 at the age of 78.) He's best known as the songwriter behind "Mr. Bojangles," "Desperados Waiting for a Train," and "L.A. Freeway." All of those were hits for others. I've posted a set by Walker already, because he took part in the 1972 US Festival. 

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Jerry Jeff Walker - Wikipedia 

Unfortunately, this concert doesn't contain "Mr. Bojangles," "Desperados Waiting for a Train," though it does include "L.A. Freeway." (The version I found listed "Desperados" as one of the songs, but when I listened to it, it was a different song. But perhaps it still is out there in some other versions.) I looked him up on rateyourmusic.com. Out of all of his dozens of albums, his 1973 album "Viva Terlingua!" gets the highest average ratings. That's lucky, since this concert took place only three months after the release of that album and contains some songs from it.

The sound quality of this concert is excellent now. But I ran into some problems at first. The song list was off, with most of the song order being off by one, and some of the titles just wrong. So I fixed that. The balance was often off, with some songs way too loud and others way too quiet, and the banter very quiet. But I was able to fix all that as well. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. The music here is unreleased.

01 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
02 Gettin' By (Jerry Jeff Walker)
03 I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning (Jerry Jeff Walker)
04 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
05 All She Left Me Holdin' (Jerry Jeff Walker)
06 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
07 The Continuing Saga of the Classic Bummer [Or Is This My One-Way Bus Ticket to Cleveland] (Jerry Jeff Walker)
08 Get It Out (Jerry Jeff Walker)
09 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
10 More Often than Not (Jerry Jeff Walker)
11 The First Showboat (Jerry Jeff Walker)
12 L.A. Freeway (Jerry Jeff Walker)
13 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
14 One Too Many Mornings (Jerry Jeff Walker)
15 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
16 Northeast Texas Woman (Jerry Jeff Walker)
17 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
18 My Old Man (Jerry Jeff Walker)
19 Hill Country Rain (Jerry Jeff Walker)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DBDjmrTQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4pSsKEHcU4GKKEn/file

The cover photo comes from the  Great Southeast Music Hall, in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 4, 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

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