Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942, Oneonta, New York^[1]) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing “Mr. Bojangles“.

Walker’s maternal grandparents played for square dances in the Oneonta area, with his grandmother, Jessie Conroe, playing piano, and her husband playing fiddle. During the late 1950s, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones.