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29 oct. 2020 · The maverick country-folk singer Jerry Jeff Walker was born in 1942 in Oneonta, a small city in upstate New York, near the northernmost boundary of Appalachia. His parents, ...
5 févr. 2021 · Jerry Jeff Walker performs "Mr. Bojangles" during his 1976 Austin City Limits performance. Texas Icons: Jerry Jeff Walker & Billy Joe Shaver premieres Februa...
Jerry Jeff Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby on March 16, 1942, in Oneonta, NY. He acquired his stage name while living and performing in New Orleans in the mid-1960s. His father, Mel, and mother, Alma, raised him and his sister Cheryl, but it was Alma’s mother, Jessie Conrow, who proved to be Walker’s first musical influence, and one of his most enduring.
There's a photo on the back of a long-out-of-print Jerry Jeff Walker album that kind of sums it all up. In the picture, Jerry Jeff is outside an old roadhouse on a lonesome highway. It's night, and his collar is turned up against the chill breeze as he hunches over to light a cigarette.
Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He was best known for having written the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".
27 oct. 2020 · Jerry Jeff Walker’s death on Saturday at age 78 from throat cancer spurred an outpouring of sentiment from former bandmates, fellow-traveler musicians and even a president of the United States.
6 oct. 2022 · Although Robert Clyde Crosby was born in upstate New York, upon relocating to Austin, Texas in the early 70s, he changed his name to Jerry Jeff Walker. That was the beginning of becoming a prominent artist whose edgy approach was newly tagged as “outlaw” or “cosmic cowboy” music. When Walker passed in 2020, his reputation was legendary.
