Joe Louis Walker
About Joe Louis Walker
Louis Joseph Walker Jr. (December 25, 1949 – April 30, 2025), known as Joe Louis Walker, was an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. His knowledge of blues history is revealed by his use of older material and playing styles. NPR Music described him as "Powerful, soul-stirring, fierce and gritty...a legendary boundary-pushing icon of modern blues." Another music journalist noted "If you define 'blues' by the rigid categories of structure rather than the flexible language of feeling allusion, Robert Cray... Larry Garner, Joe Louis Walker and James Armstrong are a new and uncategorizable breed, their music blues-like rather than blues, each of them blending ideas and devices from a variety of sources – soul, rock, jazz, gospel – with a sophistication beyond the reach of their forerunners".
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Discography
Cold Is the Night (1986)
The Gift (1988)
Blue Soul (1989)
Blues Survivor (1993)
JLW (1994)
Blues of the Month Club (1995)
Great Guitars (1997)
Preacher and the President (1998)
Silvertone Blues (1999)
Guitar Brothers (2002)
She's My Money Maker (2002)
In the Morning (2002)
Pasa Tiempo (2002)
New Direction (2004)
Playin' Dirty (2006)
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