{"id":153808,"date":"2022-05-27T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=153808"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:36:54","slug":"lyssna-steve-earle-jerry-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=153808","title":{"rendered":"Lyssna: Steve Earle – Jerry Jeff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steve Earles nya album ”Jerry Jeff sl\u00e4pptes digitalt 27 maj och sl\u00e4pps p\u00e5 p\u00e5 LP och CD i augusti. Som titeln antyder \u00e4r nya plattan en hyllning till l\u00e4rom\u00e4staren och v\u00e4nnen Jerry Jeff Walker, som dog h\u00f6sten 2020, 78 \u00e5r gammal.<\/p>\n

Ett pressmail ber\u00e4ttar om nya albumet:
\nMed ”Jerry Jeff” kompletterar Steve Earle den serie hyllningsplattor som inleddes med 2009 \u00e5rs ”Townes” (Townes van Zandt), fortsatte med 2029 \u00e5rs ”Guy” (Guy Clark) och som nu avslutas med ”Jerry Jeff”.<\/p>\n

F\u00f6rra \u00e5ret gav Steve Earle dessutom ut ”J.T.”, en fin men sm\u00e4rtsam hyllningen till sonen Justin Townes Earle, som dog 2020, endast 38 \u00e5r.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe records were recorded and released in the order in which they left this world. But make no mistake \u2013 it was Jerry Jeff Walker who came first,\u201d says Earle.<\/p>\n

Earle was 14 when he first heard Walker. His high school drama teacher gave him a copy of \u201cMr. Bojangles,\u201d Walker\u2019s classic ballad about an unforgettable character he met in a New Orleans jail. After Earle moved to Nashville in the 1970s, he had the opportunity to get to know Walker, who enlisted him as his designated driver.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s a tendency to think of Jerry Jeff around a relationship to one song,\u201d Earle says, referring to \u201cMr. Bojangles,\u201d which was covered by everyone from Bob Dylan to Sammy Davis Jr. \u201cHe was also such a great interpreter of other people’s songs. But my main purpose in recording this album was to remind people that he wrote a lot of fucking great songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earle delivers a gorgeous, soulful \u201cMr. Bojangles\u201d on JERRY JEFF, but also covers some of Walker’s lesser-known classics \u2013 meditative ballads like 1969\u2019s \u201cOld Road\u201d and 1973\u2019s \u201cWheel.\u201d Other highlights include joyful takes of \u201cCharlie Dunn,\u201d Walker\u2019s endearing tribute to the bootmaker, and \u201cGypsy Songman,\u201d a stomping busking anthem. See below for track listing.<\/p>\n

JERRY JEFF is Earle\u2019s 22nd album. The three-time GRAMMY winner has released nearly an album a year since the mid-1990s, LPs ranging from bluegrass to blues to folk to country. His 2021 album, J.T., features the songs of his son Justin Townes Earle, a two-time Americana Music Awards winner who died in 2020 at age 38.<\/p>\n