Joe Louis Walker has been to church and back. Roommate Mike Bloomfield’s 1981 death from an accidental overdose shook Walker so thoroughly that the young guitarist went from wallowing with heathens including Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix to soaring to […]
Joe Louis Walker performs at the 2017 King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, AR.
Like many bluesmen and rockers before him, Joe Louis Walker got so burned out with the type of music he was playing and the trappings that surrounded it, that he turned to a higher power to express his music. By the […]
Almost without exception, contemporary blues albums arrive wrapped in the sound of the conservatory, or of a beer commercial. In neither case does emotion drive the music, and so one stops hoping for better, stops listening altogether. Joe Louis Walker […]
