Jerry Jeff Walker - Five Years Gone

: Jerry Jeff's second album for Atco found him, like many a late-'60s singer/songwriter, in Nashville, where he hooked up with a lot of the same guys (Kenneth Buttrey, Charlie McCoy, Paul Griffin) that backed Dylan when he made a similar move. Eliot Mazer and David Briggs, shortly to produce Neil Young, were also on hand for this album, which went in a little more uptempo, commercial direction than it's predecessor, 'Mr. Bojangles'. It even includes the original version of that song, which, after Walker played it during a November 1967 all-night radio show on New York's public radio station WBAI, resulted in so many listener requests that Atco had Walker re-record it for his debut album on the label.

1) Help Me Now
2) Blues in Your Mind
3) Seasons Change
4) About Your Eyes
5) Janet Says
6) Dean Men Got No Dreams
7) Tracks Run Through the City
8) Happiness Is a Good Place to Visit But It Was So Sad in Fayetteville
9) Courage of Love
10) A Letter Sung to Friends
11) Mr. Bojangles
12) Born to Sing a Dancin' Song