Jerry Jeff Walker

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Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby, 1942, Oneonta, New York, USA) is an American country music performer and songwriter. He is best known for his poem "Mr."

"Bojangles" is a word that refers to Bojangles.

Early life

On March 16, 1942, Walker married Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York. Mel's father, Mel, served as a sports referee and bartender; Alma (Conrow), his mother, was a housewife. His maternal grandparents performed square dances in the Oneonta area – his grandmother, Jessie Conrow, was playing piano while his grandfather fiddled out. Crosby, a member of The Tones, a local Oneonta teen band, was active in the late 1950s.

Crosby joined the National Guard after high school, but after high school, he was forced to go AWOL, but he was eventually discharged. He went on to roam the country busking for a living in New Orleans, Texas, Florida, and New York, often with H. R. Stoneback (a friendship that was discussed in 1970's "Stoney"). Jerry Ferris, then Jeff Walker, later merged them into Jerry Jeff Walker, later transforming his name to Jerry Jeff Walker in the late 1960s.

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Career

Walker spent his early folk music days in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. He co-founded Circus Maximus, a late-1960s band that released two albums, one with the popular FM radio hit "Wind," but Bruno's interest in jazz apparently departed from Walker's obsession with folk music. Walker continued his solo career and released Mr. Bojangles, his seminal 1968 album, with the help of David Bromberg and other influential Atlantic recording artists. In the 1970s, he settled in Austin, Texas, assimilating mostly with the outlaw country scene that featured musicians such as Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings, and Townes Van Zandt. Walker was named in Jennings and Nelson's 1977 hit song "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" and "Back to the Basics of Love)" on the lyrics. Walker appeared with Doug Sahm at Carnegie Hall's Main Hall on September 28, 1974.

MCA and Elektra released a number of hits following Walker's move to Austin, Texas, before he gave up on the mainstream music market and established his own independent record label. Tried & True Music was established in 1986, with Susan as president and boss. Susan also founded Goodknight Music as his talent company and Tried & True Artists for his bookings. Under the Tried & True imprint, a collection of increasingly autobiographical documents has been published. Gypsy Songman is a songwriter who also sells his autobiography. Walker's first DVD of songs from his childhood appeared in an intimate setting in Austin in 2004.

Susan Streit was married in 1974 in Travis County, Texas. They had two children: Django Walker, who is also a singer, and Jessie Jane, the daughter. In Belize, Walker suffered a relapse on Ambergris Caye, where he recorded his Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits album in 1998. He also appeared on Ramblin's 1998 album of Duets Friends of Mine, including "He Was a Friend of Mine" and Woody Guthrie's "Hard Travelin" on Ramblin's "Guest Travelin."

Walker wrote songs by others, "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother" (Guy Clark), "Looking for") "The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits), and "London Homesick Blues" (Gary P. Nunn). In addition, Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, Paul Siebel, Bob Dylan, Todd Snider, Dave Roberts, and even a rodeo clown named Billy Jim Baker performed the songs of others like Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, Townes Van Zandt, Paul Siebel, Bob Dylan, Todd Snider, Dave Roberts. Walker was given the nickname "the Jimmy Buffett of Texas" by the Texian. It was Walker who brought Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut Grove, Florida, in a Packard). When riding the last run of the Panama Limited, the two musicians co-wrote the song "Railroad Lady."

Walker's "Mr. Bojangles" (1968) is perhaps his most well-known and most well-covered song. It's about an obscure alcoholic but skilled tap-dancing drifter Walker, who, when arrested and jailed in New Orleans, insisted on being named only as "Bojangles" (taken, presumably, from famed tap dancer Bill Robinson, leading to erroneous belief that Robinson was the subject of the tale).

The album's notable covers include a live version of his bandmate Bromberg's album Demon in Disguise, a hit by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1971 (also available on their album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy). Jim Stafford's debut self-titled album in 1974, as well as its inclusion in medley.

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