Joe Louis Walker
| Joe Louis Walker | |
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Walker in 2007
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Louis Joseph Walker Jr. |
| Also known as | JLW |
| Born |
December 25, 1949 San Francisco, United States |
| Genres | Electric blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Labels | Polygram, HighTone, Provogue, Evidence Music, JSP, Stony Plain, Verve Records/Gitanes, Alligator Records |
| Website | Joe Louis Walker |
| Notable instruments | |
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Gibson SG Custom Gibson Les Paul |
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Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW (born December 25, 1949) is 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."
He was born Louis Joseph Walker Jr. in San Francisco, United States. He came from a musical family, amidst the early influences of T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Meade Lux Lewis, Amos Milburn, and Pete Johnson. Walker first picked up the guitar at the age of eight, and became a known quantity within the Bay Area music scene by the age of 16. While publicly performing through his teens, he soaked up many influences (especially vocalists such as Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Bobby Womack and Otis Redding). In these early years, Walker played with John Lee Hooker, J.J. Malone, Buddy Miles, Otis Rush, Thelonious Monk, The Soul Stirrers, Willie Dixon, Charlie Musselwhite, Steve Miller, Nick Lowe, John Mayall, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix. By 1968, he had forged a friendship with Mike Bloomfield; they were roommates for many years until Bloomfield's untimely death.
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