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...captain Mel Embree high jumped 7 ft. and freshman Geoff Stiles polevaulted 15 ft. 9 in. for Harvard's only individual win. Jeff Campbell lost the mile to Catholic Memorial's Billv Martin by .2 seconds with a time...
BACK WHEN Jerry Jeff Walker started playing at bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir was grinding out acid rock, and David Allen Coe was in prison. Nobody, least of all Jerry Jeff, would have guessed that he was starting a musical movement of sorts, still less that all those people would be drawn into...
...most responsible for creating this monster is Jerry Jeff Walker, though God knows he probably didn't mean to. He's also changed a lot since then. He's no longer the grubby, lean desperado, looking like he'd like to hop the next train to Juarez. He's had a couple of successful albums, as many playing dates as he wants--even in places as distant and mysterious as Cambridge, Massachusetts--and everyone in the country music industry knows who he is. If he gets less attention than some of the latecomers, he still gets a lot, especially back...
...hard edge of bitterness and scorn that sometimes sliced through the genial flamboyance is gone. Success has made Walker a little more easygoing, a little less mean. He no longer spits at the respectable people, as he did in the liner notes of his first major album, Jerry Jeff Walker. Describing two people who were the subject of one song, "Curly and Lil," he wrote, "Their warmth, independence, and self-respect prove to all those pussys who had to 'think of the kids and the old lady' that people can do what they want to decently...
...unadorned. For the most part Ridin' High is Walker at his best: raunchy, unrestrained, spontaneous, and terribly human, grabbing life and hugging it madly. This record isn't awfully deep, but it has an irresistible charm. Most important, it's a lot of fun, and that's all Jerry Jeff Walker ever really meant...