Outlaw country singer Jerry Jeff Walker wrote ‘Mr Bojangles’ after a stint in a New Orleans drunk tank in 1965 with an unknown tap-dancing drifter.

Outlaw country singer Jerry Jeff Walker wrote ‘Mr Bojangles’ after a stint in a New Orleans drunk tank in 1965 with an unknown tap-dancing drifter.
TOR HOLSTRÖM drifted into New Orleans like a tropical breeze, inviting yet elusiveness . He was a rakish figure, tall and lean, fair hair tousled in the wind. Here was a man who moved lightly through life.