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JW
Weir has been in the music
business for 30 years. A songwriter straight out of high
school, J.W. joined his first band, a folk/rock trio in 1975
called Cloverleaf. This fueled J.W.’s creativity and he
began to crank out original music at a fervid pace. His
band was also covering songs from Jimmy Buffet, Emmylou Harris
& John Prine to Willie Nelson, Merle Haggerd & Hank
Williams. After a couple of years J.W. embarked on a
solo/songwriting career.
In 1982 and 1983,
tapping into the Urban Cowboy craze, J.W. released two 45
single records that achieved airplay from Texas to Arizona.
The four originals contained in these singles were:
“Texas,
Texas, All Night Long, Never Love the Same Way Twice, Beer and
Setups and Walker Was the First One Down”.
Also in 1982, J.W.
was a featured songwriter at the Kerrville Folk Festival.
Chosen to play in the "New Folk" songwriter competition, JW
followed that up in 1983 when JW was also chosen to host a
Ballad tree session.
The rest of the
80’s saw J.W. in his honky-tonk band period. "J. W. Weir and
the Walkers"(later known as the "Dive Bombers”), were playing,
raising hell, and generally making a musical living around the
Gulf Coast region. The Divebombers also performed 4 years at
the Houston International festival from 1989 to
1992.
In the early
1990’s, J.W. tired of the music grind and semi-retired from
the biz. Jumping head on into the world of saltwater fishing,
J.W. became so obsessed with fishing it just inspired him to
pickup his Martin guitar again and crank out new tune's.
The songs written during these years became the foundation of
his new "Tropical” attitude towards music.
Returning
from a fishing trip one day in 1992, J.W. saw a billboard that
had gone up advertising the beach road as the Bluewater
Highway. Although the water is usually muddy along this
stretch, J.W. managed to turn it into a thing of beauty.
As J.W. tells it, “I just couldn’t
believe they would call this the Bluewater Highway! Hell
that name hit me right between the eyes and I pulled over and
wrote the song in like 10 minutes. It was easy to write
because that song was all about my life up to that
point.”
Bluewater Highway has been J.W.’s
biggest success story to date. It’s been played in the
Netherlands, Holland, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. It
also resides on jukeboxes across the region. Originally
released as a cassette album, Bluewater Highway now comes in a
CD with 4 new acoustic originals added in 2002. The
albums official title is “Bluewater Highway
Plus”.
Here’s a few of the
artists J.W. has opened or done shows
with: Lyle Lovett,
Clint Black, Lightning Hopkins, Townes Van
Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Bellamy Brothers, John Vandiver, Steve
Fromholz, Eric Taylor, Steve Young, David Rodriguez,
Shake Russell, Roy Head, John Grimaudo, Nancy Griffith,
Richard Dobson, Trish Murphy, Sisters Morales, Issac Peyton
Sweat, Joey Long, Gordy Quist, Steve Downing, and Mickey
Cates.
J.W. is a lifetime member of the
TMO (Texas Music Organization) or go to their website:
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/music/
For
booking information or to order albums:
http://jwweir.com
jwweir@msn.com
Mailing
Address:
J.W. Weir
P.O. Box
440114
Houston, Texas
77244 |
For bookings and venue's, drop
me a line at:
JWWEIR@MSN.COM
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Buy my Cd here........ http://cdbaby.com/cd/jwweir
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Remember, you can download one song or
the whole album.... http://www.apple.com/
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Check me out on Myspace for new songs
from the forthcoming album. and of course, my older
songs...
www.myspace.com/jwweirdotcom
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Last but not least there's
Facebook. although
Facebook is a bit wimpy for my tastes, it'll
hopefully promote my new shit comeing out this
year.(2 songs are in the can man) To find me,
just go to Facebook and search damnit.... :) JW
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