Pat Green talks about Jerry Jeff Walker

Pat Green is in the studio working on a Greatest Hits album and it will include a new song about his friend and musical hero Jerry Jeff Walker......

Episode Transcript

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Bob picking on the line with oneof my favorite singers, actually one of
my favorite human beings, Pat Green. Yeah, you're you're just cool man.
What can I say? Oh,the feeling is mutual, Bob.
And then, first of all,thanks for having me on the air with
you. And but yeah, man, my love affair was Austin and Austin

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radio and music is as very apparenteverywhere I go. It is when we
love you love your music. You'vebeen back in the studio putting together a
greatest hits album, right, Yeah, it's a cash crab. I mean
I gotta be honest. I mean, I mean that's like the Eagles greatest
hit songs. You know about heart? I mean you put that out.

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Yeah, you're just anyway, I'mlooking for retirement. Oh well, we're
looking forward for the album. Isthere a target date yet for the album?
Not really. No. We recordedall the all the tracks this week
and I'm coming I'm coming back toAustin from day after tomorrow and I'm going
to do all the singing. Sowell, we got you back in Austin
just in time. He's gonna bethe hotspot Friday Night, which I think

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the coolest venues around pat That's yeah. I love Cedar Park. I love
the people there. I mean they'refun loving people and there they're uh,
you know what I mean. Ohyeah. And I want to ask you
quickly because I know it seems likewhenever you appear around the Austin area,
somebody jumps on stage with you,Like if you say Django Walker's name three

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times, shows up I'm talking about. That's what failed Ben he is.
But I want to ask you.I don't think I've ever asked you before
in the interview, talk to usabout your love for Jerry Jeff Walker and
what his music meant to you,and really how you discovered his music because
I've told you this before. Itwas his music that led me to Austin.
Viva Terra lingual is what made mewant to leave college and Lubbock and

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come to college in Austin. He'sthe greatest thing that ever happened to my
musical life. He he was theguy that that taught me how to slow
down, that taught me how towell. Him and Walt Wilkins and Jimmy
Buffett, all the three of thosethose three men are the men that formed

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my life. Yeah, and theyall you know, I don't know anyway,
slow down, that's what he like. I was playing Little Bird one
day in in his house and hegoes, God, damn, that's not
how I wrote it. You hearthat from Jimmy Beffett and Jerry Jeff.

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You're like, okay, slow down. Uh. And then we got we
me and Corey were at his housefor dinner one night, and we were
trying to decide where we were goingto get married, and Corey weren't getting
married and love it, and nowI wanted to get married in Waco.
But wait, okay, wait,wait, stopped there as you guys were
marrying each other. Let's put thatstraight. Okay, just me, yeah,

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Corey, not Corey Morrow, CoreyGreen, Corey Green good, Okay,
your wife, I thought to myCorey Morrow, freight go away.
But this is this is taking aweird turn in the interview. Go ahead.
Anyway. So we're at Jerry Jeff'shouse and Susan's cooking supper and it
was a beautiful night and she goes, dude, forget Lobick, forget Waco,

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get married in luking Back like wedid. And so that's exactly what
we did. And and Django,of course showed up at that one too.
Okay, so where were you thefirst time he saw Jerry Jeff Walker
alive? Was it in Lubbock?The first time I saw Jerry Jeff was
in Lubbock. I was opening actand uh, it's some frat party anyway.

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I snuck my way backstage, andyou know I had I had this
guitar. Still I have it.It's been signed by everybody I've ever done
a show with. I walked backand I was hiding in his you know,
his backstage. He goes, whatare you doing here? When he
comes off stage, I said,well, I need you to sign this

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guitar. Wow, it's a specialguitar. It's been shout by get Jerry
Clower, Willie Nelson. And hegoes and he signed it, and he
goes, all right, you takeyour special guitar and get the out of
here. But that was the startof a beautiful friendship, right. Yeah,
it told me to get the fout. There was one time I

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saw you performing at ACL a coupleof years ago, and you were wearing
a shirt that was given to youby Susan was one of Jerry Jeff Walker's
shirts. Yeah, yeah, Igot, I got two shirts I had.
I had a cigar box made forhim for Christmas one time, you

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know, years ago, and andI've got that cigar box and he wrote
a little note in there. Soyeah, man, I missed him terribly.
Yeah. Well, I didn't meanfor the for the conversation to get
serious. But you know you're carryingon this tradition. You are. You
are this generation's Terry Jeff Walker.And it's the last night in New York

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City. Yes, oh yeah,Pats in New York City getting ready to
play golf right now? What happenedlast night in New York City? You
want to share that with us?Yeah, don't, don't. Don't walk
across the street unless you got agreen like, We'll leave it it there.

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Listen, you gotta come out tothe Hotspot Friday. You've got to
see Pad Green. And I appreciateyou sharing these stories with us about Jerry
Jeff Walker. And cannot wait forthe Greatest Hits up, any new tracks
on the greatest Hits songs that shouldbe I've got one called Jimmy and Jerry
Jeff. Wow. Wow, Ididn't I promise you. I did not
know that before before we started talkabout Jerry Jeff didn't know that at all.

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No, I read a new onefor them. It's just it's a
tough year man. And Charlie Godrests Charlie too, I mean, yeah
uh. And Keith Gadis, Imean this been a tough years. A
lot of really good Texans that havegone down and it's tough. Yeah it
is. We will see you,will celebrate your music of course Friday night

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at the hot Spot. Looking forwardto it. Bob, I've been talking
to you on the radio for twentyfive years. I love it. I
love it too. Thank you,buddy.