Watchin' TV

Watchin' TV
Studio album by
Barefoot Jerry
Released1974
StudiosCinderella Sound, Nashville
GenresCountry, soft rock
LabelMonument
Barefoot Jerry chronology
Barefoot Jerry
(1972)		 Watchin' TV
(1974)		 You Can't Get Off with Your Shoes On
(1975)

Watchin' TV is an album by the American band Barefoot Jerry, released in 1974.[1][2] The first single was "Watchin' TV (With the Radio On)".[3] The band supported it by playing Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.[4] The album was reissued in 2018, along with You Can't Get Off with Your Shoes On.[5]

Production

The album was recorded at Cinderella Sound Studios, in Nashville.[6] Fred Newell (vocals), Dave Doran (bass), and Si Edwards (drums) joined the band prior to the recordings sessions.[7] Many of the songs have religious overtones.[6] "Two Mile Pike" is an instrumental.[8] "Funny Lookin' Eyes" is based on a riff similar to Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love".[7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All Music Guide to CountryStarStarStar[7]
The Blade-TribuneStarStarStar[9]
The New Rolling Stone Record GuideStarStarStar[10]
Southern Rock Review6/10[11]

The Blade-Tribune praised the first two songs but opined that the album then "slowly loses appeal and consistency ... despite some excellent individual performances".[9] The College Heights Herald called the title track "a funky, freewheeling tune".[12] The Tennessean noted that band "is brave enough to mix real harmony and pedal steel".[6] Billboard labeled the music "basically soft rock with a touch of country".[13]

Brian Hinton, in his book Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville, likened the band on "Mother Nature's Way of Saying High" to "a redneck Grateful Dead".[14] Peter Doggett said that they often resembled "a hillbilly Cheech and Chong".[15] Martin Popoff concluded that Barefoot Jerry were "not exactly southern rock but too imaginative and sly in a Steely Dan frame of mind for country".[11]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Watchin' TV (With the Radio On)"
  2. "Funny Lookin' Eyes"
  3. "Pig Snoots and Nehi Red"
  4. "Hay Queen"
  5. "Two Mile Pike"

Side 2

  1. "Faded Love"
  2. "There Must Be a Better Way"
  3. "If There Were Only Time for Love"
  4. "Violets and Daffodils"
  5. "Mother Nature's Way of Saying High"

References

  1. ↑ Burke, Jack (June 13, 1974). "The Wax Works". Scope. The Daily Tribune. p. 3.
  2. ↑ Dellar, Fred (1977). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music. Salamander Books Ltd. p. 23.
  3. ↑ "Jim Stafford, Top Pop Stars at Fair". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. September 1, 1974. p. F16.
  4. ↑ "Amusements". Austin American-Statesman. July 5, 1974. p. 46.
  5. ↑ Bryan, Keith (April 16, 2018). "Record Review". Music. Belper News.
  6. 1 2 3 Zibart, Eve (December 15, 1974). "Barefoot Jerry: Both Feet Above the Crowd". Showcase. The Tennessean. p. 15.
  7. 1 2 3 All Music Guide to Country (2nd ed.). Backbeat Books. 2003. p. 54.
  8. ↑ Wethington, Jay (September 17, 1974). "Barefoot Jerry rocks a few". The College Heights Herald. p. 8.
  9. 1 2 "Record Reviews". Tempo. The Blade-Tribune. June 9, 1974. p. 10.
  10. ↑ The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 28.
  11. 1 2 Popoff, Martin (2001). Southern Rock Review. Collector's Guide Pub. p. 39.
  12. ↑ Wethington, Jay (September 13, 1974). "Barefoot Jerry billed tonight". The College Heights Herald. Vol. 50, no. 5. p. 1.
  13. ↑ "Top Album Picks". Billboard. Vol. 86, no. 21. May 25, 1974. p. 65.
  14. ↑ Hinton, Brian (2000). Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville. Sanctuary. p. 216.
  15. ↑ Doggett, Peter (2001). Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock. Penguin Books. p. 97.
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