“! The album is a gift from grateful musicians and songwriters including Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, James Taylor, Lyle Lovett, Allen Toussaint, Little Feat and more to a master – Jesse Winchester.
Excerpts taken from the album liner notes written by Bill Flanagan:
I don’t know anyone who dislikes Jesse Winchester’s music. It seems to me that there are only those who love it and those who have never heard it. Jesse is a songwriter’s songwriter, praised by every composer from Dylan down and covered by greats from Wilson Pickett to the Everly Brothers. Jesse Winchester’s songs are like mirrors in which both performers and listeners can see themselves. Among Jesse’s most prominent fans are Jimmy Buffett and Elvis Costello, both of whom have covered a number of Jesse songs on record and in concert, and both of whom performed with him on television in 2010 – Elvis on his SPECTACLE series and Jimmy on his CONCERT FOR THE GULF special after the BP oil spill…Buffett and Costello both took great pleasure in introducing one of their musical heroes to their own audience.
At Christmas of 2011 Buffett wrote to Jesse and told him the album was coming, a gift from a whole bunch of grateful musicians and songwriters to a master. Jesse expressed his gratitude and had some good news of his own. He had beat the odds – after treatment and surgery the doctors had told him he was cancer free. Soon he returned to the road and as of this writing is performing again, making up for a lost year. A happy ending all around.
Quiet About It: A Tribute To Jesse Winchester
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Release Date September 25, 2012
Track Listing
Payday – James Taylor
Biloxi – Rosanne Cash
Gentleman of Leisure – Jimmy Buffett
I Wave Bye Bye – Allen Toussaint
Talk Memphis – Vince Gill
Defying Gravity – Mac McAnally
Brand New Tennessee Waltz – Lyle Lovett
Mississippi You’re On My Mind – Lucinda Williams
Dangerous Fun – Rodney Crowell with EmmyLou Harris and Vince Gill
Rhumba Man – Little Feat
Quiet About It – Elvis Costello