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

The string of records for MCA and Elektra followed Jerry Jeff's move to Austin, before he gave au fait the mainstream music business & formed his have independent record label, Tried & True Music, in 1986. a series of more and more autobiographical records followed under the Tried & True imprint.

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

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