Tracks
- January’s Son [3.29]
- Love You More [2.59]
- Gypsy Wind [4.04] vocals: Billy Bob Thornton
- Lupatlana [3.05]
- Cameron Road [3.35]
- Babylon [3.25]
- Station [5.12]
- White Dove [2.03]
- Running for Shelter [2.47]
- Good, Good Feeling [3.46]
Produced by Jack Hammer
Executive producer: Jack Maree
Recorded at various locations between July 1985 and January 1987.
All songs written by Piet Botha except ‘White Dove’ by D+A Maree.
Musicians
- Piet Botha: Vocals, guitars, bass, piano, harmonica
- Billy Bob Thornton: Drums, vocals
- Derek Riley: drums
- Paul Barnard: bass
- Paul van Eeden: guitar
- Friedel Knobel: sax
Release information
LP: 1987, Third Ear Music, 3EE 100
Comments
January’s Son
‘January’s Son‘ was re-recorded in 1995 and released on the ‘Death Of A Gypsy’ album in 1996.
Billy Bob Thornton & Gypsy Wind
In 1985 Piet Botha headed over to Los Angeles hoping to try and get a break into the American music vibe…while there, by some stroke of luck he managed to cross paths with the young and upcoming actor Billy Bob Thornton, who at the time was also a young aspiring singer and drummer.
Piet and Billy Bob ended up jamming together and after awhile they found their way into a small recording studio somewhere in Burbank where they recorded some songs… one of the songs, which was written and sung by Billy Bob titled ‘Gypsy Wind’ was released on the Jack Of All Trades album (and also on the Jack Hammer Anthology Album in 1999) after Piet’s return home to South Africa. This pic (above) of Billy Bob Thornton and Piet was taken after a recording season in Los Angeles one evening in 1985.
— Moonshine Lee, February 2024
In ‘Gypsy Wind’ the “MoPac” railroad referred to is the Missouri-Pacific Line, and in Austin the highway that parallels it is called MoPac.
— Kurt Shoemaker, Texas, 3 March 2000
Artwork
Discography
Piet Botha 