Jerry Jeff Walker Collection (ca. 1970-1979)

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Jerry Jeff Walker Collection (ca. 1970-1979)

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This collection is comprised of the handwritten lyrics and chord notations to the country western song “Charlie Dunn”, written in the 1970s by Jerry Jeff Walker for the Texas bootmaker by that name, who worked with Buck Steiner, at the Capital Saddlery, on Lavaca Street in Austin, Texas. Also included is the first pair of custom lizard skin boots made for Walker by Dunn, which bear Walker’s initials on the front shaft of each boot.

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Southwestern Writers Collection, Special Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos

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SNAC Resource ID: 6640822

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Walker family, donor

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Dunn, Charlie.

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Walker, Jerry Jeff

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Country/Western singer and songwriter. From the description of Charlie Dunn : holograph and boots, [1972]. (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 26886900 Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker was born Ronald Clyde Crosby on March 16, 1942, in Oneonta, New York. In the early 1960s, he hitchhiked cross-country, singing in bars and on street corners, adopting the name Jerry Jeff Walker in 1966. While performing in Texas, Walker met songwriter Bob B...