Jerry Jeff Walker

Jerry Jeff Walker (born March 16, 1942) is a country music singer.

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Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York. He spent his early folk music days in Greenwich Village in the mid 1960s, and then mostly associated with the country-rock Texas outlaw scene around Austin, Texas in the 1970s that included Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings, and others. Some of the songs he wrote or performed include: "Mr. Bojangles" (written by Walker), "LA Freeway" (written by Guy Clark), and "Redneck Mother" (written by Ray Wylie Hubbard).

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A string of records for MCA and Elektra followed Jerry Jeff's move to Austin, before he gave up on the mainstream music business and formed his own independent record label, Tried & True Music, in 1986. A series of increasingly autobiographical records followed under the Tried & True imprint.

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He has interpreted the songs of others like Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Keith Sykes, Paul Siebel, Bob Dylan, Todd Snider and even a rodeo clown named Billy Jim Baker.

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He has a son, Django, who is also a country musician.

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