Viva Terlingua

¡Viva Terlingua! is an album by country music singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker and The Lost Gonzo Band. It was recorded in August 1973 at the Luckenbach Dancehall in Luckenbach, Texas, and released three months later, in November 1973, on MCA Nashville Records. The album captures Walker's strived-for "gonzo country" sound, a laid-back country base with notes of "outlaw" rock, blues, and traditional Mexican norteño and Tejano styles. The album was mostly recorded live in the dancehall without an audience over several days, but two songs were recorded live with an audience. The Lost Gonzo Band as featured on the album included Gary P. Nunn and Kelly Dunn on keyboards, Herb Steiner on pedal steel guitar, Craig Hillis on electric and acoustic guitars, Bob Livingston on bass, Michael McGeary on drums, country veteran Mickey Raphael on harmonica, and Mary Egan on fiddle, with Joanne Vent and many others contributing backup vocals. The album captures the band early in their life, and their simultaneously laid-back and tight style contributes heavily to the album's enduring popularity. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Te...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)