Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker

Tributee: Jerry Jeff Walker.Personnel: Todd Snider (vocals, acoustic guitar, harp); Vincent Herman (acoustic guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Jim Lewin (electric guitar, background vocals); Chad Staehly (melodica, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ); Brian Adams (bass guitar, background vocals); Chris Sheldon (drums, background vocals).Jerry Jeff Walker first gained fame as a performer when he relocated to Austin, Texas in the early '70s and fell in with the local singer/songwriters who would find an audience as part of the outlaw country scene. While Walker clearly had no problems with either drinking or hell-raising, like his compatriots Billie Joe Shaver, Guy Clark, and Willie Nelson, he had a much greater poetic sensibility than his reputation would lead many to imagine (particularly after he unwittingly made Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mothers" an anthem). Given Snider's not-undeserved reputation as a hard-partying misfit who wanders from place to