Although these demos were recorded in the mid-70s, their guitar, harmonica and socially adept lyrics reach straight back to Dylan and Walker’s early proponent, Phil Ochs. His nasal voice recalls both Dylan and Arlo Guthrie (and for those who enjoyed […]
Something happens when listening to singer-songwriter Sammy Walker that is hard to explain. On first listen to his new release of archived stripped down demos titled, Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’, recorded in the mid-70s, it is easy to dismiss as yet another […]
Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’, the new collection of old demos from Georgia-born singer-songwriter Sammy Walker, excavates the musical vault of an artist whose work has always, sort of, been stuck in folk music’s own deep storage. A deft guitar picker […]
You don’t have to be a music-biz whiz to figure out why Sammy Walker’s career didn’t take off in the wake of his eponymous 1976 Warner Brothers debut and the 1977 follow-up, Blue Ridge Mountain Skyline. At the time, record […]
