Barefoot Jerry

Barefoot Jerry
OriginNashville, Tennessee, United States
Genres
Years active1971–1977 and occasional reunions to the present
LabelsCapitol Records
Warner Bros. Records
Monument Records
Spinoff ofArea Code 615
Past membersTerry Dearmore
Kenny Buttrey
Jim Colvard
Dave Doran
Si Edwards
Mac Gayden
John Harris
Warren Hartman
Russ Hicks
Kenny Malone
Charlie McCoy
Wayne Moss
Fred Newell
Barry Chance
Websitehttp://www.barefootjerry.com/

Barefoot Jerry is an American country and rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed by Wayne Moss, following the disbanding of Area Code 615.[2] They have been described as progressive country,[1] country rock[2] and as a seminal southern rock band.[3]

Career

Wayne Moss formed Barefoot Jerry with fellow Nashville session musician Russ Hicks, a steel guitarist, following the disbanding of Moss's previous band, Area Code 615.[2] Barefoot Jerry's first lineup consisted of:

  • Wayne Moss – guitar, keyboards, vocals, bass
  • Russ Hicks – guitar, steel guitar, horn, vocals
  • Mac Gayden – lead guitar, vocals, slide guitar
  • Kenneth A. Buttrey – drums
  • John Harris – keyboards

Moss, Buttrey and Gayden originally played together on many of Mike Nesmith's Nashville sessions and had been in Area Code 615. Gayden wrote the number one UK hit single by the Love Affair, "Everlasting Love". He also played the first slide wah wah guitar, on JJ Cale's "Crazy Mama."

A lineup without Hicks recorded Southern Delight before Gayden left in 1972 to form his own band, Skyboat; Buttrey joined Neil Young's band. Moss and Harris were soon joined by Hicks and Kenny Malone (drums) on the album Barefoot Jerry, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1972. This lineup later expanded to include Buddy Skipper (keyboards), Fred Newell (banjo, harmonica, vocals), Dave Doran (guitar, bass, vocals), Si Edwards (percussion), and (Area Code's) Bobby Thompson (bass, guitar, vocals) for Barefoot Jerry and the 1974 follow-up Watchin' TV.

The lineup of Moss, Hicks, Doran, Edwards, Skipper and Newell were recorded in a live performance in 1973, released in 2007 as Barefoot Jerry Live. Moss was the last original member of the band. Retaining Hicks and Edwards, they added Terry Dearmore (vocals, guitar, bass), Jim Colvard (guitar, bass) and Warren Hartman (keyboards). In 1975 they recorded You Can't Get Off With Your Shoes On.

With the departure of Hartman, Barry Chance (guitar) and Steve Davis (keyboards, guitar, vocals) joined the band for Keys to the Country in 1976. Davis and Dearmore departed, and Charlie McCoy (keyboards, harmonica, flutes, Jew's harp) and Mike McBride (bass, guitar, percussion, mandolin) joined for Barefootin' in 1977. The band split up in that year.

Wayne Moss appears as "Barefoot Jerry" along with Charlie Daniels, Guy Clark and David Allan Coe in the 1981 music documentary Heartworn Highways.

Barefoot Jerry were mentioned in Charlie Daniels's song "The South's Gonna Do It Again."

Discography

Albums

  • 1971: Southern Delight (Capitol Records)
  • 1972: Barefoot Jerry (Warner Bros. Records)
  • 1974: Watchin' TV (Monument Records)
  • 1975: You Can't Get Off with Your Shoes On (Monument Records)
  • 1976: Grocery (double-LP reissue of the first two albums; Monument Records)
  • 1976: Keys to the Country (Monument Records)
  • 1977: Barefootin' (Monument Records)
  • 1997: Southern Delight/Barefoot Jerry (2-on-1 CD reissue on See For Miles)
  • 1997: Watchin' TV/You Can't Get Off with Your Shoes On (2-on-1 CD reissue on See for Miles)
  • 1997: Keys To The Country/Barefootin' (2-on-1 CD reissue on See For Miles)
  • 2006: Keys To The Country/Barefootin' (CD reissue; Hux Records)
  • 2007: Barefoot Jerry Live (recorded at the Exit/In in 1973 - available only from the official website)

Singles

Year Single Chart Positions Album
US
[4]
1975 "You Can't Get Off with Your Shoes On" 109 You Can't Get Off with Your Shoes On

Guest singles

Year Single Artist Chart Positions Album
US Country CAN Country
1974 "Boogie Woogie" Charlie McCoy 22 24 The Nashville Hit Man
1977 "Summit Ridge Drive" 98 — Play It Again Charlie

References

  1. ^ a b Hill, Jack W. (August 16, 2012). "In coal country, Knight discovered gold on vinyl". The Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved July 22, 2023. He got a lot of progressive country kind of artists, such as Dan Fogelberg, Jackson Browne, Jonathan Edwards, J.J. Cale, the Charlie Daniels Band and Barefoot Jerry
  2. ^ a b c d Carlin, Richard (February 25, 2014). Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN 9781135361044 – via Google Books. formed Barefoot Jerry to continue the progressive country-rock style of Area Code 615
  3. ^ a b Sanders, Daryl (October 2, 2018). That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781613735503 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Singles 1955–2010. Record Research, Inc. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-89820-188-8.
  • The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. Random House, 1980. "Southern Rock" entry by Joe Nick Patoski. ISBN 0-394-73938-8.
  • Kemp, Mark. Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, & New Beginnings in a New South. New York, New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2004, p. 17. ISBN 0-7432-3794-3
  • Charlie Daniels Band, "The South's Gonna Do It Again." In the second verse "And all the good people down in Tennessee are diggin' Barefoot Jerry and CDB."
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