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Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) was an American country and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement.
Oct 29, 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, both local...
Oct 24, 2020 · Country music singer Jerry Jeff Walker, the man behind "Mr. Bojangles," died Friday after a battle with throat cancer. He was 78.
Oct 24, 2020 · Jerry Jeff Walker, the singer-songwriter who wrote the much-recorded standard “Mr. Bojangles” and later became a mainstay of the Texas outlaw movement that catapulted Willie Nelson and Waylon...
Oct 24, 2020 · Jerry Jeff Walker, the “Mr. Bojangles” songwriter and a pioneer of the “cosmic cowboy” sound that would evolve into outlaw country, died Friday after a long battle with throat cancer. He was...
Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Oneonta, New York. He was best known for his single "Mr. Bojangles", released in 1968. Walker died on October 23, 2020 from throat cancer-related problems in Austin, Texas at the age of 78.
Oct 26, 2020 · Jerry Jeff Walker died on Friday at age 78. Walker was an adopted Texan, but he became a pillar of the Austin music scene in the 1970s - a reflection and an instigator of modern Texas culture, where a New Yorker could remake himself into a cowboy poet and where meticulous songcraft coexists with beers-in-the-air revelry.
