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Fifty years ago, a New York-born folk singer and a ragtag musical entourage recorded the quintessential Texas album. Jerry Jeff Walker’s “¡Viva Terlingua!” — recorded in Luckenbach with ...
JERRY JEFF is Earle’s album covering the songs of Jerry Jeff Walker and the basis of his summer tour 2022. For those few who don’t know, Earle is one of the hardest working men in music.
Jerry Jeff Walker a self proclaimed Texan was born Ronald Clyde Crosby in New York in 1947. He first recorded in a band called Circus Maximus in 1967 and 1968 before embarking on his solo career ...
Music legends Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle recently paid tribute to the late Jerry Jeff Walker, who passed away in October 2020.
The deaths of Walker and Shaver this month prompted critic Charles Aaron to consider the impact of their work on the wider sound of American music.
Dissatisfied, he exited the Circus, shuffled through his fake-ID stage names – Jerry Ferris, Jeff Walker, Happy Guitar, Jerry Walker – and finally went full folkie as "Jerry Jeff Walker," working the ...
The world, by way of Texas, lost two of its most iconoclastic, deservedly mythologized artists this past month – Jerry Jeff Walker, songwriter-flâneur-buckaroo; and Billy Joe Shaver, ornery and ...
How Jerry Jeff Walker Helped Put Jimmy Buffett on the Road to ‘Margaritaville’ The king of the Parrotheads remembers the ups and downs of his half-century friendship with the late cosmic cowboy.
Jerry Jeff Walker passed away in Austin Friday evening, Oct. 23, at the Dell Seton Medical Center. He was 78. He is survived by his wife Susan, daughter Jessie Jane, and musician son Django Walker.
Amanda Petrusich writes about the life and career of the country-folk singer Jerry Jeff Walker, who died, last Friday, at the age of seventy-eight.
Jerry Jeff. That would be Jerry Jeff Walker. His music was so personal, so resonant that fans knew him as Jerry Jeff, in much the same way we know Willie Nelson as Willie and Loretta Lynn as ...
Country singer Jerry Jeff Walker, who wrote the pop song “Mr. Bojangles,” has died at age 78. Family spokesman John T. Davis says Walker died Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, of cancer after battling ...