Joe Louis Walker
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Biography
[Edit]Without a doubt one of the most exciting and innovative artists gracing contemporary blues, guitarist Joe Louis Walker has glowed like a shining blue beacon since the release of his 1986 debut album for HighTone, Cold Is the Night. The disc announced his arrival in stunning fashion, and his subsequent output has only served to further establish Walker as one of the leading younger bluesmen on the scene. Joe Louis Walker is the total package, as tremendously assured on a down-in-the-alley acoustic solo outing as he is performing a thoroughly modern R&B-laced number with his latest crew of Boss Talkers.
Walker traveled a circuitous route to the top of the blues game. He was born on December 25, 1949 in San Francisco. At age 14, he took up the guitar, playing blues (with an occasional foray into psychedelic rock) on the mushrooming San Francisco circuit. For a while, Walker roomed with Mike Bloomfield, who introduced him to Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead and taught him some very useful licks. Walker even made a brief pilgrimage to Chicago to check out the blues scene there.
But by 1975, he was burned out on blues and turned to God, singing for the next decade with a gospel group, the Spiritual Corinthians. When the Corinthians played the 1985 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Walker was inspired to embrace his blues roots again. He assembled a band, the Boss Talkers, and wrote some stunning originals that ended up on Cold Is the Night (co-produced by Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker).
More acclaimed albums for HighTone — 1988's The Gift, Blue Soul the next year, and two riveting sets cut live at Slim's in 1990 — preceded a switch to the major Verve imprint and three more discs that were considerably more polished than their grittier HighTone counterparts.The LP The Preacher and the President appeared in 1998, followed a year later by his Blue Thumb label debut, Silvertone Blues. At the dawn of the new millennium, Walker changed record labels, joining Telarc Blues, and releasing In the Morning in 2002. He didn't stay at Telarc long, moving to Blues Bureau International for 2004's New Direction, then to JSP Records for 2006's Playin' Dirty, before settling in at Stony Plain Records for 2008's Witness to the Blues, 2009's Between a Rock and the Blues, and 2010's Live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Walker seemed to find a more stable home at the venerable blues label Alligator Records; he made his label debut with 2012's Hellfire, and in 2014 returned with the fiery Hornet's Nest. ~ Bill Dahl & Al Campbell, Rovi
Title: Guitar Brothers (10th Anniversary Reissue) [feat. Otis Grand]
Artist: Joe Louis Walker
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Conspiracy - Live On the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
Artist: Joe Louis Walker
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Conspiracy: Live On The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
Artist: Joe Louis Walker
Genre: Blues
Title: Journeys To the Heart of the Blues
Artist: Joe Louis Walker, Giles Robson, Bruce Katz
Genre: Blues
Title: Mean Old Train - Single
Artist: Joe Louis Walker, Giles Robson, Bruce Katz
Collections
Title: The Greatest Sleazy Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Golden West Coast Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues in the Bar - Blues Drinkin' Songs
Genre: Blues
Title: Chill Out Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 20 Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues Balladeers
Genre: Blues
Title: Rocking Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Rock Royale
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Chill Out Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Soul Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Christian Blues Music
Genre: Blues
Title: Whole Lotta Blues: Songs of Led Zeppelin
Genre: Blues
Title: Rare West Coast Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: All Blues'd Up: Songs of Led Zeppelin
Genre: Blues
Title: Amazing Blues - Time for a Drink
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Smooth Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Kiss-Off Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: All Blues's Up: Songs of Led Zeppelin
Genre: Rock
Title: American Blues - Guitar Greats
Genre: Blues
Title: Finest Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Guitar
Genre: Blues
Title: Contemporary Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Mustique Blues Festival 2009
Genre: Blues
Title: Beyond the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Mustique Blues Festival 2010
Title: Greatest Blues Hangover
Genre: Blues
Title: Hits of Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Wild Drinking Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: West Coast Blues Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Drinking Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Colors of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute!
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Guitar Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues in the Bottle: Boozing Songs
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of West Coast Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues 'N Booze
Genre: Blues
Title: Whole Lotta Blues - Songs of Led Zeppelin
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Guitar Deluxe
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Southern Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 35 Years of Stony Plain
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Show Stoppers
Genre: Blues
Title: Devils and Angels Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: All Blues'd Up: Songs of the Rolling Stones
Genre: Rock
Title: The Most Essential Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Picks
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 20 West Coast Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Blues Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: Drink the Day Away!
Genre: Blues
Title: Home is Where the Heart Is: Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Best West Coast Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Rockabilly Blues and Boogie
Genre: Blues
Title: Drinking With the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Saddest American Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 20 Gospel Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues for the Holidays
Genre: Blues
Title: Best Of Mustique Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Hits of West Coast Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Mustique Blues Festival 2011
Genre: Blues, Alternative
Title: Mustique Blues Festival 2013
Genre: Blues
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