Walker’s 1973 live albumViva Terlingua!is cited as a landmark record of the outlaw country movement.

People said, Were different, but were not hillbilly country.

We didnt blacken our teeth and wear baggy pants, we just liked cowboys and played like that.

Jerry Jeff Walker

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He really brought that folksinger/songwriter form to its height in Texas.

But also, a la Willie, he wrote really giant hit songs.

Mr. Bojangles is a standard.

9 on theBillboardHot 100 in 1971.