There's No U-Turn (On the Road of Life)

Zoomer Roberts: lead guitar & vocal
Buddy Winston: rhythm guitar & vocal
Jerry Boyer: vocal

This song and the one below ("Wasted Tears") are originals that I wrote specifically for Jerry, Buddy & Zoomer. JBZ was a side group that got together every year throughout the '70s and '80s to play at the Border Folk Festival. We recorded an album in 1982 that we felt good enough about to think we could play the more prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival. However, the only way for us to make that leap was to enter the "New Folk" competition, and that required original material. We recorded these two songs in my living room on a Montgomery-Ward boom box and submitted a copy of the tape to the judges in Kerrville. To our surprise, we were accepted as contestants, and we're still talking about our experiences on the subsequent trip. We didn't win, however, and our thoughts turned to other things. In retrospect, both of the songs sound formulaic, but I'm proud of them.