1968 Mr Bojangles
A good song has the power to change one career after another. in 1967, Jerry Jeff Walker, a 25-year-old former psy-chedelic rocker, was reinventing himself as a country singer/songwriter. His transformation began in earnest that year, when he wrote the luminous “Mr. Bojangles”—based on a real-life encounter. During a visitContinue Reading