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It is about an obscure alcoholic but talented tap-dancing drifter Walker had met who, when arrested and jailed in New Orleans, insisted on being identified only as "Bojangles".
25 de oct. de 2020 · The origin story behind the song is true: Mr. Walker kept his arrest record to prove that he was held for several days in a New Orleans jail, where an aging dancer told him about his life: He...
Jerry Jeff Walker nacido Ronald Clyde Crosby (Oneonta, Nueva York; 16 de marzo de 1942-Austin, Texas; 24 de octubre de 2020) [1] [2] fue un cantautor de música country estadounidense. [3] Más conocido por escribir la canción " Mr. Bojangles ", tuvo una carrera prolífica y una gran influencia musical, que le convirtió en un ...
2 de nov. de 2020 · Jerry Jeff Walker, the country music icon best known for writing the classic “Mr. Bojangles,” died of throat cancer on October 23 at age 78. Diagnosed in 2017, he had been receiving chemotherapy and radiation, according to The New York Times.
Walker said he was inspired to write the song after an encounter with a street performer in a New Orleans jail. While in jail for public intoxication in 1965, he met a homeless man who called himself "Mr. Bojangles" to conceal his true identity from the police. Mr. Bojangles had been arrested as part of a police sweep of indigent ...
29 de mar. de 2021 · The song drew a portrait of a down-and-out traveling man named Bojangles who danced a lick across his jail cell yet still mourned his dog after 20 years. Its lyrics were inspired by a stranger Walker met during his time in a New Orleans jail after being arrested in the French Quarter on July 5, 1965.
22 de sept. de 2023 · Jerry Jeff Walker and his wife, Susan, donated his entire archives to the Wittliff Collections in 2017. Now, a new exhibit, “Viva Terlingua: The Big Bang of Texas Music,” includes never-before-heard recordings from Luckenbach.
