Written by Steve Cash and Larry Lee, “Jackie Blue" was the second Top 40 single for the band—they had previous success with the 1973 hit “If You Wanna Get to Heaven”—and it was by far their biggest song. The radio classic was seemingly about a woman looking for happiness and meaning in her life. But it didn’t start out that way.
Record producer Glyn Johns heard Lee playing “Jackie Blue” on the piano and suggested the band record it. But he also suggested a major change that would make the song more commercially successful.
“We were a little bitty band from Springfield, Missouri. Glyn Johns was a famed producer, making a suggestion. Of course, we're going to take his advice,” Granda shared. “So Larry grabbed Steve Cash, and they went off into an adjacent studio that had a piano... Steve was a master wordsmith. Those lyrics are very cool in the song. … So, they came back over. ‘Hey, we've got some new lyrics.’ Larry went out and sang the new lyrics about Jackie Blue. So, Jackie Blue had a sex change in mid-recording. “
‘Jackie Blue’ was originally about a guy on drugs
In the book The Ozark Mountain Daredevils On Record, keyboardist Buddy Brayfield recalled a slightly different story. “[Jackie Blue] was about a guy on downers, is what it was first about," he said. “This down-and-out guy was Jackie Blue. Glyn turned around to Larry and Steve and said, ‘You’ve got to re-write the lyrics and make this song about a girl, and it will be a hit song.’”
In a post on the official Ozark Mountain Devils Facebook page, Lee recalled that the game-changing rewrite was completed in half an hour. “We just knocked some new lyrics out in about thirty minutes,” he shared. “[From] some drugged-out guy, we changed Jackie into a reclusive girl."
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