Artist: Jesse Winchester
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Jesse Winchester
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Jesse Winchester was the music world's most spectacular Vietnam War draft dodger, though his fame came from a body of ironical, intimately discovered songs. After growing up in Memphis, Winchester received his drawing notice in 1967 and stirred to Montreal, Canada, kinda than wait on in the military. In 1969, he met Robbie Robertson of the Band, world Health Organization helped found his recording career. In the same way that James Taylor's chronicle of mental imbalance and drug step served as a subtext for his former music, Winchester's expatriation lent real world poignance to songs like "Yank Lady," which appeared on his debut album, Jesse Winchester (1970). He became a Canadian citizen in 1973. Despite critical herald, his inability to enlistment in the U.S. prevented him from pickings his home among the major singer/songwriters of the early '70s, only he made a series of impressive albums -- Third Down, 110 to Go (Revered 1972), Acquire to Love It (Revered 1974), Permit the Rough Side Drag (June 1976), and Zip only a Breeze (March 1977) -- earlier President Jimmy Carter instituted an pardon that finally allowed him to roleplay in his fatherland. By that time, the singer/songwriter boom had passed, though Winchester continued to record (A Touch on the Rainy Side [July 1978], Talk Memphis [Feb 1981], Humour Me [1988]) and even scored a Top 40 remove with "Say What" in 1981. His to the highest degree conspicuously covered songs include "Yank Lady" (Beer maker & Shipley), "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Joan Baez, Ian Matthews), "Biloxi" (Gobbler Rush, Jimmy Buffett), "Mississippi River, You're on My Mind" (Krauthead Jeff Walker, Stoney Edwards [for a Top 40 rural area hit]), "Defying Gravity" (Jemmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris), "Rhumba Girl" (Nicolette Larson [for a pop chart submission]), "Well-A-Wiggy" (the Weather Girls [for an R&B chart ingress]), and "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl" (Michael Martin Murphey [for a Top Ten rural area hit]). In 1999, Winchester returned from a long recording suspension with the new album Gentleman of Leisure. An active live performer, Winchester released his first live album in 24 years with 2001's Jesse Winchester Live at Mountain Stage. Another live album, plainly coroneted Live followed in 2005.
