Jimmy LaFave
Jimmy LaFave (born July 12, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point, Texas. After moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma, LaFave crafted a musical style called Red Dirt music and became a disciple of the state's most famous folk musician: Woody Guthrie. LaFave is an Advisory Board member and regular performer at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. In 1996 he received the Kerrville Folk Festival songwriter of the year award and appeared on the TV show Austin City Limits. He has recorded 15 albums and his 2007 release, Cimarron Manifesto, reached the No. 1 mark on the Americana Music Association album chart. In 2012, LaFave released the studio album Depending On The Distance.
Early life
While living in Wills Point, Texas, LaFave began playing the drums and later moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma and played in the school band. At age 15 LaFave switched to guitar and began writing and singing his own songs in a band called The Night Tribe.
Career
After graduating from high school LaFave played music at night while working during the day. He had a job as the manager of a music club called Up Your Alley and during this period recorded the albums Down Under in 1979 and Broken Line in 1981.
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ALBUMS
- Depending on the Distance released: 2012
- Favorites 1992-2001 released: 2010
- Cimarron Manifesto released: 2007
- Blue Nightfall released: 2005
- Texoma released: 2001
- Trail released: 1999
- Road Novel released: 1997
- Highway Trance released: 1994
- Austin Skyline released: 1993
- Buffalo Return to the Plains released:
Favorites 1992-2001
Released 2010- Desperate Men Do Desperate Things
- Going Home
- Rock and Roll Music to the World
- Only One Angel
- Burden to Bear
- Never Is a Moment
- Sweetheart Like You
- How It Must Remain
- Austin After Midnight
- When It Starts to Rain
- Buffalo Return to the Plains
- On a Bus to St. Cloud
- When I See You Again
- Walk Away Renee
- Into Your Life
- Measuring Words
Texoma
Released 2001- Bad Bad Girl
- San Francisco
- Never Is a Moment
- This Glorious Day
- Poor Man's Dream
- On a Bus to St. Cloud
- Rock 'n Roll Music to the World
- Red Dirt Song
- Woody Guthrie
- Tears
- Love Can Find It's Own Way
- Elvis Loved His Momma
- Emotionally Yours
- Patient Man
- On the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
- The Moon's a Harsh Mistress
Trail
Released 1999- Positively 4th Street
- Red Dirt Roads at Night
- Because the Wind
- Burden the Bear
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out
- Going Home
- Simple Twist of Fate
- The Perfect Combination
- How It Must Remain
- Key to the Highway
- Oh, Sister
- Loved You Like Rainbows
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Oklahoma Hills
- Forever Young
Highway Trance
Released 1994- Shakin' In Your Hips
- When the Tears Fall
- Leslie, Talk to Me
- Cafe in the Rain
- Austin After Midnight
- Give Your Sweet Love to Me
- The Open Road
- Early Summer Rain
- Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon
- I've Got Your Picture
- The Perfect Combination
- Dark Dancing Eyes
- Get It, Got It, Good
- Prayer for You
- When I See You Again
- Route 66 Revisited
Austin Skyline
Released 1993- Thru the Neon Night
- Girl From the North Country
- Desperate Men Do Desperate Things
- When It Starts to Rain
- Deep South 61 Delta Highway Blues
- Walk Away Renee
- Measuring Words
- You're a Big Girl Now
- Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat
- Only One Angel
- Everytime
- Rocket in My Pocket
- Darkest Side of Midnight
- Restless Spirits
- Trouble Free
- Shelter From the Storm
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Austin Skyline
by: Jimmy LafaveYou can while away our hours, you can talk in tongues
Throw you promises, baby, until kingdom come
Cast your bread upon the waters see what it may bring
Desperate men do desperate things
Come on talk to me, baby, talk big and be brave
It’s not your only reputation that you’re trying to save
I’ve had you under observation you’re into various pain
And desperate men do desperate things
Come on out of your daydream go some other place
Wipe the tear from your eyes wipe the smile from your
face
Before you lose another love to the night and to the rain
’Cause desperate men do desperate things
Let it out, baby, stir it up and mix it in
Two parts religion three parts sin
It’s the truth or consequences because the new king
reigns
And desperate men do desperate things
You can while away your hours you can talk in tongues
Throw your promises, baby, into kingdom come
Cast your bread upon the waters see what it may bring
Still desperate men do desperate things
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