Earl Poole Ball Jr. (born March 12, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter,[1] pianist,[2][3] music producer and actor.

He has performed with many well known American musicians, including Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, Gram Parsons, Carl Perkins, Merle Haggard, Freddie Hart, Marty Stuart, Phil Ochs, Michael Nesmith, Marty Robbins, Wynn Stewart, The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Byrds.

[3] After graduating from High School, Ball moved to Hattiesburg and continued playing music on the show and in local night clubs.

His young marriage broke up, and Ball moved to Houston,[3] where he spent the next three years playing in honky-tonks at night and selling sewing machines by day.

Back in L.A., Ball performed as part of the house band at The Aces Club and played every Sunday afternoon on the TV show Cal's Corral.

His songs were recorded, and reached the top of Billboard's chart, by Glen Campbell (“Try A Little Kindness”) and Waylon Jennings (“The Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line”).

[1][4] Ball played piano on two songs on the 1985 album Lost & Found by Nashville-based cowpunk band Jason & the Scorchers: "Broken Whiskey Glass" and "Far Behind".

In 1999, he recalled that while he was working on the latter tune, James Burton dropped by the studio to show Scorchers guitarist Warner E. Hodges some licks.

[8] Director Peter Bogdanovich included the song I Don't Think I Could Take You Back Again, which was written by Earl Poole Ball and Jo-El Sonnier, in his 1981 film They All Laughed.

In 1986 Earl moved back to California and found more work in character roles on movies such as Texasville (1990) and The Thing Called Love (1993).