Electric Guitar
Blues Legend
JOE LOUIS WALKER
Set To Release Electrifying New Album
'ECLECTIC ELECTRIC'
Thrilling First Single
“WEREWOLVES OF LONDON”
EXCLUSIVE ZOOM TV INTERVIEW
Joe Louis Walker is one of the greatest bluesmen of his
generation. He is a four-time Blues Music Award winner and 2013 Blues Hall of
Fame inductee who has appeared on multiple Grammy-winning albums. He is known
worldwide as one of the genre’s top musical trailblazers—a mesmerizing
guitarist and soul-testifying vocalist. The New York Times raves, “Walker is a singer with a Cadillac
of a voice. He delivers no-nonsense, gutsy blues. His guitar solos are fast,
wiry and incisive, moaning with bluesy despair.” Rolling Stone simply calls him
“ferocious.”
And Billboard writes: “His playing blows all over the
map…gutbucket blues, joyous gospel, Rolling Stones-style rock crunch, and
aching R&B. Walker’s guitar playing is fine and fierce." Joe won the 2016 Blues Foundation Contemporary Blues Male
Artist of the Year award at the Blues Foundation Awards ceremony in Memphis. The
Blues Music Awards are universally recognized as the highest accolade afforded
blues music performers. The annual Blues Music Awards ceremony is the premier
event for blues professionals, musicians, and fans from all over the world. Joe Louis Walker returns to center stage with an
incredible new studio album, Eclectic Electric!
Set for release on
November 12, the album contains some of the most diverse and electrifying recordings
this veteran troubadour has done in his over 4-decade long career. Alongside
wonderful new compositions like the blues stomping opener “Uptown Girl Blues”
and the horn-powered “Bad Betty,” Eclectic Electric also features a set
of killer cover versions from The Eagles’ “Hotel California” and Don Henley’s
“All She Wants To Do Is Dance” to Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves Of London.” These
are no regular, soundalike versions though; Walker turns these tunes inside out
and gives them each a thrilling makeover. Just check out his howlingly good
version of “Werewolves Of London,” which is available now on all digital
platforms.
Purchase
the new album
by
JOE
LOUIS WALKER
ENTITLED
ECLECTIC
ELECTRIC
Officially
released on November 12th
on
Cleopatra Records.
available
at amazon.com
One of most
celebrated and respected bluesmen working today, Joe Louis Walker, returns with
some of the most electrifying recordings he's done in his over 4-decade long
career! This extraordinarily diverse set includes both incredible new
compositions including the blues stomping opener "Uptown Girl Blues"
and horn-powered "Bad Betty" as well as killer cover versions of The
Eagles' "Hotel California" and Warren Zevon's "Werewolves Of
London!" Includes special guest performances by Waddy Wachtel, Doyle
Bramhall II and the incomparable B.B. King Blues Band! Walker is a road dog
like no other and he has a string of shows lined up to support this album and
excite his enormously supportive fanbase! Available on both CD packaged in a
digipak and on RED vinyl!
For
more information about
JOE
LOUIS WALKER
VISIT
official
website
www.facebook.com/joelouiswalker/
facebook
www.instagram.com/officialjoelouiswalker/
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JOE LOUIS
WALKER
Discography
Albums
Blues Comin'
On (HighTone, 2020)
Everybody
Wants a Piece (Provogue, 2015)
Hornet's
Nest (Alligator Records, 2014)
Hellfire
(Alligator Records, 2012)
Between A
Rock and The Blues (Stony Plain Music, 2009)
Witness to
the Blues (Stony Plain Music, 2008)
Playin'
Dirty (JSP, 2006)
New
Direction (Provogue, 2004)
Ridin' High
(HighTone, 2003)
She's My
Money Maker (JSP, 2002/03)
Guitar
Brothers (JSP Records, 2002)
Pasa Tiempo
(Evidence Music, 2002)
In the
Morning (Telarc, 2002)
Silvertone
Blues (Polydor/Polygram, 1999)
Preacher and
the President (Polydor/Polygram, 1998)
Great
Guitars (Polydor/Polygram, 1997)
Blues of the
Month Club (Polydor/Polygram, 1995)
JLW
(Polydor/Polygram, 1994)
Blues
Survivor (Polydor/Polygram, 1993)
Live at
Slim's, Volume Two (HighTone, 1992)
Live at
Slim's, Volume One (HighTone, 1991)
Blue Soul
(HighTone, 1989)
The Gift
(HighTone, 1988)
Cold Is the
Night (HighTone, 1986)
DVDs
Live At 'On
Broadway' (Blues Express, 2001)
Joe Louis
Walker in Concert (inakustik, 2003)
Viva Las
Vegas Live (DVD plus CD; Cleopatra Blues, 2019)
JOE LOUIS WALKER
CONCERT DATES
2021
OCT 23
SAT
Towne Crier
Cafe @ 8:00pm
Beacon, NY,
United States
NOV 12
FRI
Peoples
Natural Gas Park @ 8:00pm
Johnstown,
PA, United States
NOV 13
SAT
Music Box
Supper Club @ 8:00pm
Cleveland,
OH, United States
NOV 16
TUE
Dakota @
8:00pm
Minneapolis,
MN, United States
NOV 17
WED
Gas Lamp @
8:00pm
Des Moines,
IA, United States
NOV 18
THU
Shank Hall @
8:00pm
Milwaukee,
WI, United States
NOV 19
FRI
Hey Nonny @
8:30pm
Arlington
Heights, IL, United States
NOV 20
SAT
Franke
Center For the Arts @ 8:00pm
Marshall,
MI, United States
DEC 10
FRI
Bull Run
Restaurant @ 8:00pm
Shirley, MA,
United States
2022
MAR 26
SAT
Paramount
Hudson Valley @ 9:45pm
Peekskill,
NY, United States
JUN 10
FRI
Groove Now @
7:00pm
Basel,
Switzerland
JOE LOUIS WALKER
APPEARS WEEK OF
NOVEMBER 23RD 2021
on INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS
with RAY SHASHO
STREAMING at
THE CLASSIC ROCK MUSIC REPORTER
THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES
CHRONICLES, TRUTHS, CONFESSIONS AND WISDOM FROM THE MUSIC LEGENDS THAT SET US FREE
SERIES ONE
BY RAY SHASHO
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Featuring over 45 intimate conversations with some of
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CHRIS SQUIRE... DR. JOHN... GREG LAKE... HENRY MCCULLOUGH... JACK BRUCE … JOE LALA… JOHNNY WINTER... KEITH EMERSON... PAUL KANTNER... RAY THOMAS... RONNIE MONTROSE... TONY JOE WHITE... DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS… MIKE LOVE... TOMMY ROE... BARRY HAY... CHRIS THOMPSON... JESSE COLIN YOUNG... JOHN KAY... JULIAN LENNON... MARK LINDSAY... MICKY DOLENZ… PETER RIVERA ...TOMMY JAMES… TODD RUNDGREN... DAVE MASON... EDGAR WINTER... FRANK MARINO... GREGG ROLIE... IAN ANDERSON... JIM “DANDY” MANGRUM... JON ANDERSON... LOU GRAMM... MICK BOX... RANDY BACHMAN… ROBIN TROWER... ROGER FISHER... STEVE HACKETT... ANNIE HASLAM… ‘MELANIE’ SAFKA... PETULA CLARK... SUZI QUATRO... COLIN BLUNSTONE… DAVE DAVIES... JIM McCARTY... PETE BEST
BOOK REVIEW
-By Literary Titan (5) STARS
The Rock Star Chronicles, by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show.
The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan.
Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives.
The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter
with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print.
It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably,
modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music. The
second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the
musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is
for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes
for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.
I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts,
aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new
things by going back in time.
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