Jerry Jeff Walker’s ‘Viva Terlingua’: Inside the Fringe Country Album - Rolling Stone 🔗 🎵 🤠 🇺🇸 💛

Released in 1973, the live recording helped define country music’s counterculture

Jerry Jeff Walker has never been one to do what he was supposed to do. A military dropout who scored a Top 10 hit in writing ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ he left New York City for Austin, Texas, long before it was known as the ‘Live Music Capitol of the World.’ And in the summer of 1973, Walker cut an LP, ¡VIVA TERLINGUA!, that helped lay the foundation for the outlaw country sub-genre of country music….