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lUJSTIN — Jerry JeHWal-
T, the “Mr. Bojangles” coni-
vvhose songs glorified
tigria wine and redneck
btners, now praises the won-
rsof vegetarianism and ex-
lise that have taken the 40-
r-old singer full-circle
km a life of drugs, booze
non-stop chaos.
|“I was a regular rolling par-
said Walker, a tall and
Iky composer-singer who
[scribes his rowdy and some-
lies bawdy music as “cow-
Walker’s sprawling ranch-
lie home m Austin’s hill
mtry now shows little sign
he fast life he spurned Jan.
1980 — the date he says he
ve up whiskey, red meat,
trettes, speed and cocaine
on the same day.”
A live-in helper prepares
etable pie in a kitchen with
iboards overflowing with
tlth foods. Walker’s wife,
san, is on a 9-day juice fast
1 rests in a bedroom while
ear-old daughter Jesse
es backyard tours of an In-
ii teepee where she says
clad “likes to sleep and lis-
to critters.”
It was costing me a lot to
high and I was still bored,”
Iker says of the years which
minated with him downing
1th of whiskey and snorting
e amounts of cocaine ev-
day.
I was consuming a lot and
hing was happening. Any-
e you find yourself not
jmipletely contented with
|at you’re doing, you need
■ make a change. I think
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that’s where I was. This was
getting old. I’d just about
drank every place and been
every place, with everybody
there was to do it with.”
Walker, who added beer
and wine to his list of taboos a
month ago, runs five miles ev
ery day and has cut back on his
traveling schedule to spend
more time with Susan, Jesse
and his 14-month-old son,
Django Cody.
The role of family man and
health fanatic was slow in
coming to the boy from up
state New York who began his
singing career as a street musi
cian in New Orleans’ French
Quarter.
Fueled by a yearning for
great adventures, Walker
worked at odd jobs on his way
from city to city in the 1960s,
eventually mastering a pick
ing guitar style. He played
clubs in Austin, Kansas City
and many small towns.
After a disastrous trip with
a new band to seek his fortune
in New York City, Walker re
turned to Austin and wrote
his first hit, “Mr. Bojangles,” a
much-recorded folk tune that
spelled success for the com
poser.
. “I'm not really a country
musician, but people got to
call you something,” Walker
said. “That’s why the new
album is called ‘Cow Jazz.’
“After ‘Bojangles’ was a hit,
I was supposed to be a great
pop singer. They billed me in
one club in New York as ‘the
rich Gordon Lightfoot.’ Then
I met Gordon and we went to
his house (in Canada) and it
was this big castle, and I was
still living in a cockroach-
infested apartment in New
York.”
Walker did a bit more
traveling before settling down
in his hillside Austin home in
the early 1970s. He avoided
pressure by music studios to
make his songs more commer
cial and started recording live
at Texas honky-tonks in to whs
like Luckenbach, where his
big-selling “Viva Terlingua”
album was made.
Songs like “Redneck
Mother,” “Sangria Wine” and
“London Homesick Blues”
became staples on barroom
jukeboxes as Walker joined
the ranks of successful Texas
musicians like Willie Nelson
and Waylon Jennings.
But the booze, drugs and
fast living seemed to catch up
to him when he found himself
only a f ew years away f rom his
40th birthday.
“Some of it has to do with
age,” he said. “We used to be
able to drink all night and
crash for three hours and
then bound out the door. Now
if we drink all night we don’t
make it up until sunset, and
even then we can’t bound.
“It’s taken me a longer time
to find out what’s right to do.
I’m in a creative position to be
able to effect change in my
life, and that’s what I’m
doing,”
He says most of his fans
seem to like the new Jerry
Jeff, whose diet and exercise
regime results in more
energetic and personal per
formances.
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NEW YORK — Prophecies
are a lot safer in this age of elec
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It still pays to hedge one’s
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