Jesse Winchester recorded this song in 1970. Winter was winter back in the last century. Listening to this song reminds me of New England and leaving behind the cold . If only I could leave. Anywhere south as long as it isn't New Jersey.
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Monday, February 23, 2026
Monday, April 14, 2014
Jesse Winchester RIP
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrF18QSVEk
To hear THE BRAND NEW TENNESSEE WALTZ, please go to this URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APirVxOpZFk
To hear SNOW, please go to this URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EEnfFe9qn0
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