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It is also used in the sequel series Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. It was used as the opening music to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer and all the opening sequences in Netflix prequel series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.GQ in 2015 said it was a "perfect, complex, trash-gem of work of art.".“I didn’t just burn the candle at both ends, I was also finding new ends to light. “Greased by drugs and alcohol, I was also raising the pursuit of wildness and weirdness to a fine art,” he wrote. “The mid-’70s in Austin were the busiest, the craziest, the most vivid and intense and productive period of my life,” Mr. In 2017, it was announced that he had donated his music archives, including tapes, photographs and handwritten lyrics, to the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. Walker had been receiving chemotherapy and radiation.
Walker’s survivors include a daughter, Jessie Jane McLarty a son, Django, who is also a musician a sister, Cheryl Harder and two grandchildren. With the help of Susan Streit, his wife of 46 years, he gave up liquor and drugs in the late ’70s, put his life back together and eventually settled into the role of elder statesman of the gonzo Texas music scene he had helped create. Walker toured and recorded extensively throughout the 1970s and ’80s, even as his drinking became unmanageable and he faced mounting debt, including back taxes owed to the I.R.S. Clark’s profile as a songwriter with his heart-rending cover of “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” another neo-western touchstone written by Mr. Freeway,” a staple of the Southwestern songwriting canon written by Guy Clark, the Texan singer-songwriter. After signing with Decca in 1972, he released an album, titled simply “Jerry Jeff Walker,” which featured an acclaimed version of “L.A. Walker made three albums for Atco and another for Vanguard Records before relocating in 1971 to Austin. He joined the National Guard in the early 1960s, only to go AWOL before embarking on the hitchhiking tour of the country that ultimately led to him changing his name to Jerry Jeff Walker and moving to New York to pursue his muse as a folk singer. He later took up banjo and ukulele and played in local pop combos when he was in high school. Walker received his first guitar as a Christmas present when he was 12. His parents were local dance champions, and his maternal grandparents led a square-dance band.Ī rebellious youth who excelled in athletics, Mr. His father, Mel Crosby, refereed sporting events and tended bar his mother, Alma (Conrow) Crosby, was a homemaker. Jerry Jeff Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby on March 16, 1942, in Oneonta, N.Y., in northernmost Appalachia. Walker was quoted as saying in the 1998 edition of The Encyclopedia of Country Music. “I wanted our records to sound like we were having a grand time at a party thrown for a bunch of our best friends - which, I guess, is exactly what it was,” Mr.
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