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It's a Good Night for Singin'
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Album Details: It's a Good Night for Singin'

Release Date:01/01/1976
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    Its a Good Night for Singin'

    By Danny R  Jul 26, 2005 | 1 out of 1 found this It's a Good Night for Singin' review helpful

    Pros: Great Country Music

    Cons: None

    Why in the hell isn't this available on CD? Jery Jeff and the Lost Gonzo's put together a great album here! Every song on this record is great. Check out the low notes from Jerry Jeff on Gary P Nunns song, Couldn't Do Nothin' Right. A...nd one of the best sing a long songs ever made, Its a Good Night for Singin' Read more Less

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    One of his Best

    By texmatlock  Dec 14, 2000

    How could this ever have gone out of print? From the light hearted opener to touching songs like Couldn't do Nothing Right, this stands out as I think his best work.

Pro Reviews: It's a Good Night for Singin'

  • All Music Guide

    While It's a Good Night for Singin' is usually as highly regarded as Viva Terlingua, Ridin' High, or Jerry Jeff Walker, it is not only the equal of those recordings, but perhaps, in its own way, more consistent than all of them -- or therefore their superior. Released in 1976, it has the strongest opening side of any record in Walker's career. It includes a stomping cover of Tom Waits' "Lookin' for the Heart of Saturday Night," reinvented as a rock roll song with B3s and Fender Rhodes pianos underneath a throbbing bass line (and replaces Waits' own version as definitive), and an urbanized honky tonk read of Butch Hancock's "Standin' at the Big Hotel" that blows away Joe Ely's and sounds a lot more like L.A. than Dallas -- which was the original intent of the song -- just to name two. In addition, Walker rounds out side one with the Gary P. Nunn/Karen Brooks classic "Couldn't Do Nothin' Right," a ballad of resignation and brokenness at leaving a lover who always expected more than ther...e was to give; it also features Lee Clayton's greatest love song, "Won't You Give Me One More Chance," Bob Livingstone's "Head Full of Nothin'," and a stirring, good-timey take on Billy Joe Shaver's classic "Old Five and Dimers Like Me." What is most notable here is what a great interpreter Walker is on other writers' songs, rather than as a songwriter making them his own in the process. There is only one original on the set, and that's the immortal "Stoney," which proves Walker hadn't lost it, but was going for something else entirely. There are a couple of Keith Sykes' tunes on side two, including "Someday I'll Get out of These Bars" (which Walker hasn't yet, over 27 years later), Billy C. Farlow's "Leroy," and Bob Livingstone's title track, all of which prove, like the first side, that this was indeed an album for singing, not writing, and as such, it stands as one of Walker's water marks; it endures far better than some of his other material from the same period. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Jerry Jeff Walker

Jerry Jeff Walker is strongly associated with the progressive ("outlaw") country scene that centered around Austin, Texas, in the 1970s and included such figures as Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, the Lost Gonzo Band, Waylon Jennings,and Townes Van Zandt.Ironically, however, Walker is not a native Texan. He was born Ronald Clyde Crosby in upstate New York an... Read more