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Viva Terlingua | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jerry Jeff Walker
Label: Mca Nashville
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 2643
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 919
UPC: 076732091920
EAN: 0076732091920
ASIN: B000002NX9
Release Date: April 11, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Gettin' By | | • | Desperados Waiting For The Train | | • | Sangria Wine | | • | Little Bird | | • | Get It Out | | • | Up Against The Wall Red Neck | | • | Backsliders Wine | | • | Wheel | | • | London Homesick Blues |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
It's no accident that among the great albums Jerry Jeff Walker has made, most of them have been recorded in front of a live audience. If you want to get the feel of the rowdy Texas music scene of the early to-mid-'70s, look no further than Viva Terlingua!, a rowdy, goat-ropin' classic of sing-along mayhem recorded in the tiny town of Lukenbach in the summer of 1973. Walker marshals his Lost Gonzo Band through a number of tunes that went on to become classics, including Guy Clark's "Desperados Waiting for the Train," Ray Wiley Hubbard's anthemic "Up Against the Wall Redneck," and his own "Sangria Wine" and "Gettin' By." The highlight, though, is an extended take on Gary Nunn's "London Homesick Blues," better known to casual Jerry Jeff fans as the theme song for the long-running PBS show Austin City Limits. --Daniel Durchholz
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 The Essence of Texas March 21, 2008
Around the time that I was discovering bluegrass and country music (and making my first, furtive attempts at covering said material in a band), one of my bandmates suggested (actually, pretty much insisted) that I listen to "Viva Terlingua." Happily, this was one of the best pieces of advice I've ever received. Jerry Jeff's rich and gravely baritone is the perfect delivery vessel of this wonderful mix of his own material and the songs of Guy Clark, Gary P. Nunn, Michael Murphy, and the immortal Ray Wiley Hubbard. Hubbard's "Redneck Mother" and Nunn's "London Homesick Blues" became instant classics, making their way into any aspiring country/outlaw band's repetoire, but Walker's bouyant "Sangria Wine," moody "The Wheel," and Clark's "Desperados Waiting for a Train" are all terrific, and, really, there's not a track that you'd want to skip over. Hearing "Viva Terlingua" always makes me smile. I'm betting it will do the same for you, too.
 where are you Viva March 19, 2008
I am looking forward to being able to review my most recent purchase
however after 5 weeks since despatch I am still waiting to recieve it.
Can anyone out there tell me where it is???
TAKES ME BACK July 25, 2007
Takes me back to my highschool days when I first heard it on vinyl. Love it.
jerry jeff walker June 19, 2007
think of austin texas in the 70's...cool longneck beer and tubing down the comal river...this album was popular than and now..classics such as up against the wall redneck mother are still fun...a must for third coast music lovers
One of My Favorite Albums of All Time... June 2, 2007
I don't even consider myself a country music fan, yet this album is in my top five favorites of all time, easily. You really can't categorize Jerry Jeff Walker as "country" anyway...
I think some call his brand of music "outlaw", "gonzo", etc. -- but whatever you want to call it, it is timeless.
Back in the early 70's, my parents used to have big parties, and they would put this album on -- and that was when the party really started. We kids would all be upstairs, listening to the songs and also to our parents getting rip-roaring drunk while shouting out "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother". Hearing those songs over and over, I knew all the words by the time I was about 7 years old!
After my dad died in 2002, I was going through his extraordinary album collection, and spotted this gem. I was so excited to find it, and took it quickly before my brother could get to it, LOL.
Other reviewers here have done a much better job at describing the songs, but I just wanted to add an "amen" to the chorus. I also wanted to confirm that you do NOT have to be a country music fan to love this music.
My husband (alternative rock fan) gave me a smirk and a "yeah right" when I told him it was not your ordinary country music. Needless to say (to JJW fans) he has changed his tune, and is now a big fan himself.
Nobody, and I do mean NObody, could play it like Jerry Jeff. Long live Terlingua!!
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