Joe Louis Walker

Electric Blues Master Joe Louis Walker at B.B. King Blues Club

From his name to his birthday (Christmas 1949), Joe Louis Walker seems born to play the blues. Raised in San Francisco, Walker's musical apprenticeship included stints sharing stages with everyone from John Lee Hooker, Buddy Miles, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon to Steve Miller, Nick Lowe, John Mayall and even Jimi Hendrix. He even appears on B.B. King's Grammy-winning "Blues Summit" album (playing a song he wrote). An electric blues master with influences spanning gospel, jazz, funk, soul and rock, Walker's reverent appreciation for the genre's history comes across in his playing.