Back in 1970 I found an LP by a folksinger named Jesse Winchester. I loved this LP, especially the songs YANKEE LADY, SNOW, and THE BRAND NEW TENNESSEE WALTZ. Jesse Winchester never played in Boston or Cambridge or anyplace in the USA, since he had fled the USA to avoid the Draft in 1967 after graduating from Williams College. Upon his pardon in 1976 by Jimmy Carter the singer returned to this country and was called by Rolling Stone “the Greatest Voice of the Decade”.
I never saw him live and was saddened this weekend to read in the newspaper that Jesse Winchester had passed away in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He shall be missed, but his music lives on.
To hear YANKEE LADY, please go to this URL
To hear THE BRAND NEW TENNESSEE WALTZ, please go to this URL
To hear SNOW, please go to this URL