Jerry Jeff Walker at Mosebacke

Me and my friend Ake left the big release party and took a taxi to Mosebacke, a small music club in the south of Stockholm. Jerry Jeff Walker was playing there, alone with his guitar. He had just started when we entered the small bar, it was absolutely quiet and everyone was listening carefully. He was one of my heroes from the time I first started to listen to singer/songwriters in the sixties; Tom Paxton, Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Rush and Leonard Cohen, of course. Ake and I were standing there in the bar with a beer and it was one of those gigs where you felt no need to talk, just smile. He had written so many classic songs and he had us all under control. In the intermission Jerry Jeff was standing there in the bar having a beer and I got him to sign me an autograph and I cleared my voice and said that he had written one of the best songs ever written, "More Often Than Not", on that album from the late sixties. - Well, I actually didn't write that song, it was written by David Wiffen, he said. I felt like a fool of course, but later on stage he said he was going to do a song he hadn't done in a long time and there it was, this beautiful song, with just Jerry Jeff Walker's voice, his guitar and no other comments.

 

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