Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was a leading figure in the outlaw country music movement. He is best known for having written the 1968 song \”Mr. Bojangles\”. Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York, on March 16, 1942.
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Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was a leading figure in the outlaw country music movement. He is best known for having written the 1968 song \”Mr. Bojangles\”. Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York, on March 16, 1942. He first played under the stage name of Jerry Ferris, then Jeff Walker, before amalgamating them into Jerry Jeff Walker and legally changing his name to that in the late 1960s. Walker was mentioned by name in the lyrics of Jennings and Nelson’s 1977 hit song \”Luckenbach, Texas \”.
In 2004, Walker released his first DVD of songs from his past as performed in an intimate setting in Austin. Walker married Susan Streit in 1974 in Travis County, Texas. They had two children: a son, Django Walker, who is also a musician, and a daughter Jessie Jane. Walker had a retreat on Ambergris Caye in Belize, where he recorded his Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits album in 1998.
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