"It was one of those things that I listened to it so much that I knew every word to every song," said Green, who eventually became close friends with Walker. "I was a teenager when I first started ...

Jerry Jeff Walker didn’t exist, so Ronald Clyde Crosby had to invent him: a freewheeling scamp, a drifter, a raconteur, a gypsy songman and larger than life Texan who wasn’t a native Texan. Walker’s ...