ALBUM: ‘You Can’t Get Off with Your Shoes On’ (1975)
MVC Rating: 3.5/$$
Gosh, I don’t know where these guys came from. I mean I have no memory of where, when or how I came to own this album. Probably true of many more before this quest to review my 678 records ends.
This music is odd Southern rock, with great musicianship, lots of musical solos. Several instrumentals. Kind of a cross between Captain Beyond and Charlie Daniels.
Wait, in fact there’s a Charlie Daniels mention on the BJ album, and Daniels apparently name-checked Barefoot Jerry in his popular ‘The South’s Going to Do it Again:’
Elvin Bishop sittin’ on a bale of hay
He ain’t good lookin’, but he sure can play
And there’s ZZ Top and you can’t forget
That old brother Willie’s gettin’ soakin’ wet
And all the good people down in Tennessee
Are diggin’ barefoot Jerry and C.D.B
Don’t know if in 1975, Daniels, the guy who stuffed his hair up under his hat to walk into the Dew Drop Inn, had already gone all Ted Nugent on us.
But like the younger uneasy rider, Barefoot Jerry seem to be about 65 to 35 on the Grateful Dead-Allman Brothers scale of hippie guitar bands.
By the way, which one is Pink?
Er, I mean Jerry?
(Oh Jerry, now I get it)
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease.
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