Steve Earle & the Dukes - Jerry Jeff

Available on black wax 10 classics by Jerry Jeff Walker. "Steve Earle once said that when he was a teenager, he wanted to be Jerry Jeff Walker more than anything else in the world, and while Walker may not be the most obvious influence on his music, the eclecticism of his body of work and his talent for re-inventing himself clearly resonated with Earle, a man who's gone out of his way to carve out new trails for himself even when it was difficult. Walker was born in Oneonta, New York, and was a member of the psychedelic band Circus Maximus before he fell in love with Texas and evolved from a folkie into a member of the Lone Star Outlaw community, the same place where Earle found his first musical home. 2022's Jerry Jeff is the fourth (and to take him at his word, the last) in Earle's series of albums paying homage to songwriters who were important to him, and while the previous LPs (honoring Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and his late son Justin Townes Earle) saw Earle finding his way in