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Joe Louis Walker Live On the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

Live On the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise
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Recorded live during the 2010er Blues Cruise through the Caribbeans. Great live set featuring... more

Joe Louis Walker: Live On the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

Recorded live during the 2010er Blues Cruise through the Caribbeans. Great live set featuring many of today's finest blues players. - Digipak. JOE LOUIS WALKER - gtr/voc, LINWOOD TAYLOR - gtr, KEVIN BURTON - kbds, HENRY ODEN - bass, JEFF MINNIEWEATHER - drums. Featuring: JOHNNY WINTER, DUKE ROBILLARD, KENNY NEAL, CURTIS SALGADO, TAB BENOIT, TODD SHARPVILLE, KIRK FLETCHER, NICK MOSS, FRANK GOLDWASSER, JASON RICCI, WATERMELON SLIM, etc.

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  • Interpret: Joe Louis Walker

  • Album titlle: Live On the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

  • Label DIXIE FROG

  • Genre Blues

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0794881982226

  • weight in Kg 0.107
Walker, Joe Louis - Live On the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise CD 1
01 Slow Down "gto" Joe Louis Walker
02 Ain't That Cold Joe Louis Walker
03 You're Gonna Make Me Cry Joe Louis Walker
04 Eyes Like A Cat Joe Louis Walker
05 Ten More Shows To Play Joe Louis Walker
06 Born In Chicago Joe Louis Walker
07 Sugar Mama Joe Louis Walker
08 Tell Me Why Joe Louis Walker
09 A Poor Man's Plea Joe Louis Walker
10 It's A Shame Joe Louis Walker
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Joe Louis Walker HighTone's other major ‘80s electric blues guitar discovery was Joe... more
"Joe Louis Walker"

Joe Louis Walker

HighTone's other major ‘80s electric blues guitar discovery was Joe Louis Walker. Although he couldn't quite muster the same pop crossover response as labelmate Robert Cray, Walker forged his own distinctive sound, beginning with his 1986 debut album ‘Cold Is The Night.'

Walker came into the world Christmas Day of 1949 in San Francisco. He soaked up the city's rich blues scene in his teens, absorbing his guitar lessons at the Matrix Club. "I used to play with the guys that came in. I played with Earl Hooker quite a bit. I sort of jumped onstage with Lightnin' Hopkins once and got kicked off," says Walker. "Freddie King, he let me play his guitar when he'd come to town. Sam, I'd see Magic Sam when he came to town. Hubert Sumlin, I've known Hubert quite a few years. When he was playing with Wolf, he'd come out and play the Fillmore, the Sunday matinees. Of course, Muddy. I was 16, 17."

Walker roomed with Michael Bloomfield in the Bay Area during the late ‘60s, leading to a 1969 Chicago jaunt. "Bloomfield sent me there," says Joe. "Said Otis Rush had a gig, which I didn't get. But just as well, because I wasn't really cut out to be, at that time, a Chicago guy." He didn't copy any of his heroes too closely. "I was told by many people, ‘Joe, don't try to be me, and don't try to be somebody else. Be yourself, because a bad version of you is better than you trying to have a good version of me.' I never was one of those guys to sit down and try to copy B.B. King note for note, or Albert King, or Freddy King. I enjoy the hell out of ‘em, but I figure if I'm gonna do this here, I might as well do it and put my own stamp on it."

Walker got away from the blues for an extended time, studying music at San Francisco State University and singing gospel with the Spiritual Corinthians. But a 1985 European tour as a member of the Mississippi Delta Blues Band got him back in harness, and when he returned to San Francisco, Walker formed his band, the Boss Talkers. He sent a demo tape to HighTone bosses Bruce Bromberg and Larry Sloven, and they brought him aboard the label. "He came to us, and he was a local artist to us," says Bromberg. "And we went up to see him. So we went for it."

Bromberg and Dennis Walker, the same pair that produced Cray at HighTone, also supervised ‘Cold Is The Night.' Its brooding, intense title track made a perfect introduction to Walker's haunting attack. The Boss Talkers (keyboardist Kevin Zuffi, drummer Steve Griffith, and bassist Eric Ajaye replacing Henry Oden on this track only) were stark and tasty throughout the LP, cut in Los Angeles.

Like the champion boxer of the same name, Walker kept on punching at HighTone with ‘The Gift' (1988), ‘Blue Soul' (1989), and two volumes of ‘Live At Slim's' in the early ‘90s before moving over to better-bankrolled PolyGram for a half-dozen discs later in the decade. His rough-edged vocals strike just the right balance with his electrifying fretwork, and he's highly adept on slide as well as single-string soloing.

Walker knows what his fans expect. "Basically, if I make a Joe Louis Walker record, it's not like ‘Joe Louis Walker plays this or that.' They're gonna like the record because of what I try to do," he says. "I think that people will enjoy it. I hope they do. If they don't, I always like to say, ‘It ain't my first record. It won't be my last!'"

 

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Tracklist
Walker, Joe Louis - Live On the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise CD 1
01 Slow Down "gto"
02 Ain't That Cold
03 You're Gonna Make Me Cry
04 Eyes Like A Cat
05 Ten More Shows To Play
06 Born In Chicago
07 Sugar Mama
08 Tell Me Why
09 A Poor Man's Plea
10 It's A Shame
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