Jerry Jeff Walker ~ Similar Artists

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Robert Earl Keen - 100% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

11 January 1956, Houston, Texas, USA. In the mid-70s, Keen befriended Lyle Lovett at Texas A&M University, an establishment that combined academic and military activities. They often sang and played guitar together and they wrote "This Old Porch", which appeared on Lovett's... Read more

Guy Clark - 94% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

6 November 1941, Rockport, Texas, USA. Clark has achieved considerably more fame as a songwriter than as a performer, although he is revered by his nucleus of fans internationally. Brought up in the hamlet of Monahans, Texas, Clark worked in television during the 60s, and later... Read more

Joe Ely - 70% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

9 February 1947, Amarillo, Texas, USA. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Ely is one of the most completely realized artists in contemporary country music, especially in the live situation where he excels. His work for MCA Records in the late 70s is latterly regarded as the link... Read more

Charlie Robison - 64% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

1 September 1964, Bandera, Texas, USA. Singer-songwriter Robison grew up on his family's ranch in the tiny Texan town of Bandera. He began playing in bands as a teenager, initially starting out on the drums before graduating to guitar. After studying at Southwest Texas... Read more

Waylon Jennings - 63% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

Wayland Arnold Jennings, 15 June 1937, Littlefield, Texas, USA, d. 13 February 2002, Arizona, USA. Jennings' mother wanted to name him Tommy but his father, William Alvin, insisted that the family tradition of "W.A.' should be maintained. His father played guitar in Texas... Read more

Merle Haggard - 62% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

6 April 1937, Bakersfield, California, USA. "Like a razor's edge, Merle Haggard sings" is how John Stewart described his voice in "Eighteen Wheels", and that razor has been honed by his rough and rowdy ways. In the 30s Haggard's parents migrated from the Dustbowl to "the land of... Read more

Jack Ingram - 60% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

15 November 1970, Houston, Texas, USA. This US country rock singer-songwriter released his first major label recording in 1997, but was already an established star on the southern bar circuit and had issued two independent albums during the middle of the decade. Ingram first... Read more

Lyle Lovett - 58% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

Lyle Pearce Lovett, 1 November 1957, Klein, Texas, USA. Singer-songwriter Lovett grew up 25 miles north of Houston in the rural Klein community (an area largely populated by farmers of German extraction), which was named after his grandfather, Adam Klein. During his teenage... Read more

Rodney Crowell - 56% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

7 August 1950, Houston, Texas, USA. Combining careers as a country songwriter, producer and artist, Crowell rose to fame in the 80s as an influential figure in Nashville's new breed of country traditionalists, along with Emmylou Harris, in whose Hot Band he worked for three... Read more

Willie Nelson - 56% match to Jerry Jeff Walker

Willie Hugh Nelson, 30 April 1933, Abbott, Texas, USA. Following their mother's desertion and the death of their father, Nelson and his sister Bobbie were raised by their grandparents. Bobbie was encouraged to play the piano and Willie the guitar. By the age of seven he was... Read more