This is the story of a troubadour's journey in the last years of the twentieth century. Jerry Jeff Walker's music has led him from the nation's biggest arenas to hundred-year old honky-tonks; from upstate New York to the beaches of Key West and the hustling sidewalks of New Orleans to the solace of the Texas Hill Country - and for beyond. He's been a cog in the wheel of the recording industry's star-making machinery and an involuntary pioneer on the frontier of artistic independence. He wrote one of the biggest mainstream hits of all time and still managed to help jump start a maverick musical movement.
Journey to Luckenbach, Texas, the place "where everybody's somebody." The documentary film Back to the Basics traces the history of Luckenbach from a one horse crossroads to its iconic status as a cultural mecca with its unique country flavor and distinct musical legacy.
