Artist: Jerry Jeff Walker
Author: Guy Clark
Label: MCA
Year: 1973
On his Viva Terlingua album.
Covers:
Guy Clark [author; his grandmother's boyfriend gave him the inspiration for the character in the song]
Mallard [with ex members of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band as Desperados Waiting On A Train]
Highwaymen [top 20 C&W as Desperados Waiting On A Train]
Nanci Griffith [with Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Eric Taylor as Desperadoes Waiting On A Train]
Steve Earle & The Dukes [as Desperados Waiting On A Train]
Guy Clark also wrote A Nickel For The Fiddler (Everly Brothers), Homegrown Tomatoes (John Denver), L.A. Freeway (Jerry Jeff Walker), Texas 1947 (Johnny Cash) and Heartbroke (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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