Jesse Winchester

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Jesse Winchester was the music world's most prominent Vietnam War draft-evader, though his renown came from a body of wry, closely observed songs. After growing up in Memphis, Winchester received his draft notice in 1967 and moved to Montreal, Canada, rather than serve in the military. In 1969, he met Robbie Robertson of the Band, who helped launch his recording career. In the same way that James Taylor's history of mental instability and drug abuse served as a subtext for his early music, Winchester's exile lent real-life poignancy to songs like "Yankee Lady," which appeared on his debut album, Jesse Winchester (1970). He became a Canadian citizen in 1973. Despite critical acclaim, his inability to tour in the U.S. prevented him from taking his place among the major singer/songwriters of the early '70s, but he made a series of impressive albums — Third Down, 110 to Go (August 1972), Learn to Love It (August 1974), Let the Rough Side Drag (June 1976), and Nothing but a Breeze (March 1977) — before President Jimmy Carter instituted an amnesty that finally allowed him to play in his homeland. By that time, the singer/songwriter boom had passed, though Winchester continued to record (A Touch on the Rainy Side [July 1978], Talk Memphis [February 1981], Humour Me [1988]) and even scored a Top 40 hit with "Say What" in 1981. His most prominently covered songs include "Yankee Lady" (Brewer & Shipley), "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Joan Baez, Ian Matthews), "Biloxi" (Tom Rush, Jimmy Buffett), "Mississippi, You're on My Mind" (Jerry Jeff Walker, Stoney Edwards [for a Top 40 country hit]), "Defying Gravity" (Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris), "Rhumba Girl" (Nicolette Larson [for a pop chart entry]), "Well-A-Wiggy" (the Weather Girls [for an R&B chart entry]), and "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl" (Michael Martin Murphey [for a Top Ten country hit]). In 1999, Winchester returned from a long recording hiatus 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, simply titled Live followed in 2005.


Jesse Winchester (1970)

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Jesse Winchester first gained notice as a protégé of the Band's Robbie Robertson, who produced and played guitar on his debut album and brought along bandmate Levon Helm to play drums and mandolin. The album had much of the rustic Southern charm and rollicking country-rock of the Band. Winchester's other immediate appeal was a certain sense of mystery. A Southern American expatriate living in Canada, he was unable to appear in the U.S. to promote the album, which was released in a fold-out LP jacket that featured the same sepia-toned portrait (which looked like one of those austere Matthew Brady photos from the Civil War era) on each of its four sides. Winchester emphasized the dichotomy between his southern origins and his northern exile in songs like "Snow" (which Robertson co-wrote), "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" ("I've a sadness too sad to be true"), and "Yankee Lady." Jesse Winchester was timely: it spoke to a disaffected American generation that sympathized with Winchester's pacifism. But it was also timeless: the songs revealed a powerful writing talent (recognized by the numerous artists who covered them), and Winchester's gentle vocals made a wonderful vehicle for delivering them. [Originally released by Ampex in 1970, Jesse Winchester was reissued by Bearsville Records in 1976, in 1988 by Rhino/Bearsville, in 1994 by Stony Plain, and in 2006 by Wounded Bird.]


Tracklist:

01. Payday
02. Biloxi
03. Snow
04. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
05. That's A Touch I Like
06. Yankee Lady
07. Quiet About It
08. Skip Rope Song
09. Rosy Shy
10. Black Dog
11. The Nudge

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Third Down, 110 To Go (1972)


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If Jesse Winchester's debut album was an auspicious introduction to a powerful new songwriting talent, his two-and-a-half-years-in-the-making follow-up was in some ways even more impressive. Without the influence of Robbie Robertson, Winchester, who produced most of the album himself (three tracks were handled by Todd Rundgren), gave it a homemade feel, using small collections of acoustic instruments, an appropriate setting for a group of short, intimate songs that expressed a deliberately positive worldview set against an acknowledgement of desperate times. Winchester found hope in religion and domesticity, but the key to his stance was a kind of good-humored accommodation. "If the wheel is fixed," he sang, "I would still take a chance. If we're skating on thin ice, then we might as well dance." The album was littered with such examples of aphoristic folk wisdom, adding up to a portrait of a man, cut off from his very deep roots and yet determined to maintain his dignity with grace and even occasionally a goofy sense of humor.


Tracklist:

01. Isn't That So?
02. Dangerous Fun
03. Full Moon
04. North Star
05. Do It
06. Lullaby for the First Born
07. Midnight Blues
08. Glory to the Day
09. The Easy Way
10. Do La Lay
11. God's Own Jukebox
12. Silly Heart
13. All Of Your Stories

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Learn To Love It (1974)

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As the title suggests, making a virtue of necessity had always been one of Jesse Winchester's goals, and by the time of the release of his third album, the American expatriate had gone ahead and assumed Canadian citizenship. This seemed to free him to comment explicitly on his antiwar exile in "Pharaoh's Army" and especially a version of the old campaign song "Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt" updated with new lyrics: "In the year of 1967, as a somewhat younger man, the call to bloody glory came, and I would not raise my hand." Elsewhere, Winchester continued to write love songs to his lost South ("L'Air de la Louisiane," "Mississippi You're on My Mind") and, to a lesser extent, to pursue the wistful philosophizing found on Third Down, 110 to Go ("Defying Gravity"). The sense that he was repeating himself was inescapable, however, and with one-third of the album written by others and two of the originals in French Canadian, it was also obvious that Winchester was straining to come up with material. Interestingly, the two Russell Smith songs included, "Third Rate Romance" (which Smith sang uncredited) and "The End Is Not in Sight," went on to become Top 40 country hits for Smith's group, the Amazing Rhythm Aces, in the next two years. Stoney Edwards took "Mississippi You're on My Mind" into the country Top 40 in 1975.


Tracklist:

01. Wake Me
02. Every Word You Say
03. How Far To The Horizon?
04. L' 'Air De La Louisiane
05. Mississippi You're On My Mind
06. Third Rate Romance
07. Defying Gravity
08. Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt
09. Pharoah's Army
10. Laisse Les Bons Temps Rouler
11. The End Is Not In Sight
12. I Can't Stand Up Alone

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Nothing But A Breeze (1977)

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Jesse Winchester regularly took two years between record releases, but he brought in his fifth album, Nothing but a Breeze, a mere nine months after its predecessor, Let the Rough Side Drag. The impetus for such speed seems to have been the potential commercial bonanza to be gained by Winchester's first U.S. appearances since he moved to Canada to avoid the draft in 1967, due to President Jimmy Carter's amnesty program. Winchester also used a real producer, Brian Ahern (known for his work with Emmylou Harris), for the first time, and augmented his usual backup band with session stars such as Ricky Skaggs and James Burton, plus supporting vocalists like Harris and Anne Murray. The result was an Ahern-style country-pop album, but, perhaps predictably, a rather light effort for Winchester, who performed three covers among the ten tracks and included among the originals such comic trifles as "Twigs and Seeds" and "Rhumba Man." The title track, which became his first singles-chart entry, and "My Songbird," which Harris later covered, were effective songs, but the significance of Nothing but a Breeze, which enjoyed a media buzz and became Winchester's highest-charting album (which isn't saying much), was in inverse proportion to the attention it received.

Tracklist:

01. Nothing But A Breeze
02. My Songbird
03. Seems Like Only Yesterday
04. You Remember Me
05. Twigs And Seeds
06. Gilding The Lily
07. Bowling Green
08. Pourquoi M'Aimes-Tu Pas?
09. It Takes A Young Girl
10. Rhumba Man~

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Gentleman Of Leisure (1999)

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From the opening vocals of the almost rockabilly "Club Manhattan," the undeniably excellent songwriting of Jesse Winchester makes its way back into our collective psyche. Backed by an unparalleled group of musicians, and with guest appearances from such musical dignitaries as the Fairfield Four, Jerry Douglas, Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, and Vince Gill, Winchester has assembled a highly enjoyable album, filled with the same magic his past releases all possessed. The kind of musical and lyrical genius that has caused dozens of artists to record his music gets into some funky blues territory with "Sweet Little Shoe," and downright beautiful with "That's What Makes You Strong," featuring the lap steel guitar work of Jerry Douglas, who also acts as producer for the album. The title track is a rocking blues number with some out-in-front drums from John Gardner and more of Jerry Douglas' excellent lap steel. "Wander My Way Back Home," a gospel tune, backed by the fabulous Fairfield Four, is one of the album's best tracks, and is reprised at the very end of the record. "Just Because I'm in Love With You" brings some Roy Orbison feeling, with flawless harmonies from country superstar Vince Gill. "Sweet Loving Daddy" features some fine dobro picking from Douglas, but the absolute finest track on the album has to be the final cut, "I Wave Bye Bye." Gentleman of Leisure is an album 11 years on coming, and it was well worth the wait.


Tracklist:

01. Club Manhattan
02. Sweet Little Shoe
03. That's What Makes You Strong
04. No Pride At All
05. Gentleman of Leisure
06. Wander My Way Home
07. Evil Angel
08. Just Cause I'm In Love With You
09. Just Like New
10. You Tickle Me
11. Freewheeler
12. Sweet Loving Daddy
13. I Wave Bye Bye
14. Wander My Way Home [Reprise]

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Love Filling Station-2009



Love Filling Station, Winchester's Appleseed debut and his first studio CD in a decade, offers nine characteristically top-flight originals among its dozen songs. It also highlights Jesse as a graceful, soulful vocalist, as memorable a singer as a songwriter. His light southern tenor drawl, warmly wrapped in country/bluegrass/folk arrangements, can gently ascend to the heavens a la Roy Orbison, as in the lovestruck wonderment of "O What a Thrill" (already covered by The Mavericks), dish some sly, wry dirt ("It's a Shame About Him") and even capture the sublime hush of Ben E. King's classic "Stand By Me," one of the CD's three covers. The lightly rocking "Wear Me Out," another original, mixes a mock-plaintive vocal of sexual exhaustion with a funky, gospel-tinged call-and-response as the great bluegrass solo artist and sideman Jerry Douglas threads carnal lap steel guitar licks throughout the song.


Track List

1 0 What a Thrill
2 Bless Your Foolish Heart
3 Wear Me Out
4 Stand By Me
5 It’s a Shame About Him
6 Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding
7 I’m Gonna Miss You Girl
8 I Turn to My Guitar
9 Lonely for a While
10 Eulalie
11 Far Side Bank of Jordan
12 Loose Talk

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Humour Me


Folk/Rock | MP3 192 Kbps | 72 Mb | 1988


After seven years, Jesse Winchester returned to record stores with a well-crafted pop album made up of new originals in his familiar, winning style. He mixed elements of folk, rock, country, R&B, and gospel on the songs, employing a first-rate backup group featuring new grass stars Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor, plus saxophonist Jim Horn. These pros were able match Winchester's forays into light gospel ("Let's Make a Baby King") and R&B ("Well-A-Wiggy," which had been a hit for the Weather Girls), as well as the straightforward romantic pop songs that made up the bulk of the record. Humour Me lacked the depth of Winchester's best work, but it was easily on a par with his substantial body of craftsmanlike music of the mid-'70s. His voice remained warm and supple, so that his own versions of the songs were effective, and the album also served as a demo for other singers in search of good pop material. ~ William Ruhlmann
Personnel: Jesse Winchester (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Russ Barenburg, Bruce Watkins (acoustic guitar); Sam Bush (mandolin); Bruce Dees (electric guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Bela Fleck (banjo); Mark O'Connor (violin); Phil Gazell (harmonica); Jim Horn (saxophones); Bobby Ogdin (keyboards); David Pomeroy (bass); Steve Turner (drums); Kenny Malone, Edgar Meyer (percussion).


Tracklist:

01. If I Were Free
02. Thanks To You
03. They Just Can't Help Themselves
04. Too Weak To Say Goodbye
05. Let's Make A Baby King
06. Well-A-Wiggy
07. I Don't Think You Love Me Anymore
08. Willow
09. Humor Me
10. I Want To Mean Something To You
11. Pushover (Bonus Track)
12. Love Is Fair (Bonus Track)




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Let The Rough Side Drag

Folk/Country | MP3 320 Kbps | 93 Mb | 1976
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At his best, Jesse Winchester is an inspired songwriter with a unique worldview. But even at less than his best, he is a craftsman, capable of turning out an album's worth of well-written songs like those here that, now and then, suggest his personal viewpoint. The title track, another of Winchester's reflections on the importance of persevering under difficult circumstances, and "Damned If You Do," which suggests that you might as well follow your heart because you're in trouble either way, are up to his usual standard. But even slight songs like "Everybody Knows But Me" are clever and enjoyable, and overall, Let the Rough Side Drag, with its accomplished mixture of country and R&B, was Winchester's most accessible album so far, even if it was his least ambitious.


Tracklist:

01. Let The Rough Side Drag
02. Damned If You Do
03. Step By Step
04. Lay Down Your Burden
05. Everybody Knows But Me
06. Blow On, Chilly Wind
07. Working In The Vineyard
08. How About You
09. It Takes More Than A Hammer And Nails To Make A House A Home
10. As Soon A I Get On My Feet
11. The Only Show In Town
12. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (1976 Version)




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Talk Memphis


Folk/Country | MP3 320 Kbps | 83 Mb | 1981
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Having rushed to make Nothing but a Breeze and A Touch on the Rainy Side and getting his two least impressive albums for his trouble, Jesse Winchester spent two and a half years woodshedding before returning to the record racks with Talk Memphis. For the album, he returned to his hometown and worked with producer Willie Mitchell, best known for his Al Green records. It wasn't as unlikely a matching as might be imagined; Winchester had always had a soulful, flexible voice as ready as Green's to take off into the upper registers to express emotion. And Memphis-style R&B had always been an element, along with country, folk, pop, and gospel, in Winchester's sound. On his early albums, his lighthearted style had been in the service of an embattled vision, but gradually that darkness gave way, to the point that he began to seem lightweight. Talk Memphis put his effervescence and musicality to good use, resulting in his first Top 40 hit, the catchy "Say What," and the rest of the album was just as easy on the ears, with the title track providing a suitably gritty Memphis-soul sendoff. But that wasn't enough to break the album beyond the bottom rungs of the charts, and after seven albums in 11 years, Winchester left the world of major-label record-making.


Tracklist:

01. Say What
02. Baby Blue
03. Leslie
04. Hoot and Holler
05. If Only
06. Sure Enough
07. I Love You No End
08. Let Go
09. Reckon on Me
10. Talk Memphis




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Live from Mountain Stage (2001)




TrackList:

01 Eulalie 3’19
02 Foolish heart 2’52
03 If only 4’42
04 Love is hard, but love is fair 3’23
05 Just like new 2’39
06 That’s what makes you strong 2’40
07 Club Manhattan 3’25
08 Brand new Tennessee waltz 3’09
09 Gentleman of leisure 2’12
10 Little glass of wine 3’43
11 Humor me 1’57
12 Songbird 2’43
13 Yankee lady 3’56





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Jesse Winchester (1970)

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Tracklist:
(all songs by Jesse Winchester, except track 3)

1. Payday
2. Biloxi
3. Snow (J.Winchester/J.R.Robertson)
4. Brand New Tennessee Waltz
5. That's a Touch I Like
6. Yankee Lady
7. Quiet About It
8. Skip Rope Song
9. Rosy Shy
10. Black Dog
11. Nudge


Artists:
• Guy Black, drums
• Bob Boucher, bass
• Al Cherney, violin
• Levon Helm, drums
• Garth Hudson, organ
• Dave Lewis, drums
• Ken Pearson, keyboards
• David Rea, guitar/vocal
• Robbie Robertson, producer/guitar
• Jesse Winchester, guitar/keyboards/vocal

Jesse Winchester - Jesse Winchester - 1970 - Ampex A-10104
Compact Disc: Stony Plain 4054 1198 (1995)


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Size: 87.6 MB MP3 + 208.1 MB FLAC
Source: CD (MR)
Genre: Folk, Folk/Pop, Country/Rock




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