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Jerry Jeff Walker
Chase Gowdy & The Rusty Nails
(7/22)
Dave Gleason's Wasted Days (7/23)
Date: July
22 & 23, 2001
Doors: 6:00 PM
Show: 7:00 PM
Tickets:
On Sale Now
$27.50 General Admission
Age Restrictions:
6 and over
Kitchen:
Open
Seating: Seating Available
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"It’s country music from another country."
That’s how Jerry Jeff Walker
describes the music on "Cowboy Boots
& Bathin’ Suits", the Texas singer-songwriter’s
28th album, and the tenth release on his own independent label,
Tried & True Music.
For his newest album, Walker (who
has long championed remote recording locations, from the Texas Hill
Country hamlet of Luckenbach to the stage of The Birchmere in Alexandria,
Virginia) transported his entire band down to Ambergris Caye, an island
off the coast of the Central American country of Belize.
Though it marks (as far as we know) the first time a commercial American
artist has recorded professionally in Belize, the juxtaposition of
one of Texas’ most famous musical sons and the laid-back Caribbean
hideaway is not as far-fetched as it first appears. Like Austin, the
Texas city in which Jerry Jeff has made its home since 1971, Belize
embodies a seductive combination of natural beauty, a friendly native
population and a certain lightness of spirit calculated to appeal
to a footsore troubadour.
Since first visiting Belize five years ago, Walker
and his wife/manager Susan have talked about setting a recording project
in that country. The idea was to translate some of that beautiful
country’s natural splendor and tropical langour into a fun, drive-with-the-top-down
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