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Who was Mr. Bojangles? 🎶 In 1965, singer–songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker spent a night in a New Orleans jail, where he met a street performer who borrowed the name of his hero, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson. Down on his luck, the man told stories, spoke of his lost dog, and danced right there in the cell. That meeting inspired Walker to write ...
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