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JOE LOUIS WALKER

JOE LOUIS WALKER

"Weight Of The World"

FORTY BELOW RECORDS

FBR-030

2023

RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17. 2023

(USA)

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Musicians:
Joe Louis Walker - guitar, harmonica, vocals)
Eric Corne    - Guitar, percussion, backing vocals
Scott Milici - keyboards, backing vocals
Geoff Murfitt - bass
John Medeiros -    Drums, Percussion, backing vocals 
Eric Gorfain - strings 
Eddie Jackson -    bongos
Mark Pender - trumpet
David Ralicke - sax
Gia Ciambotti - backing vocals
    

Tracklist:
01 The Weight of the World 04:25
02 Is It a Matter of Time? 03:10
03 Hello, It's the Blues 06:46
04 Waking Up the Dead 04:32
05 Don't Walk Out That Door 04:09
06 Count Your Chickens 03:50
07 Blue Mirror 06:20
08 Root Down 03:39
09 Bed of Roses 04:38
10 You Got Me Whipped 06:24

Listen to samplesJoe Louis Walker - "Weight Of The World"
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THE EIGHTIES: A PRODIGIOUS DECADE

An approach about a generation of blues musicians who released their first album between 1980 and 1990.

Joe Louis Walker is back with ""Weight Of The World", an album at the height of the artist, after almost thirty released albums it's at least one of his best works. Throughout his extensive career he has made us enjoy true gems of modern blues, his explosion in the mid-eighties with the superb "Cold Is The Night" was one more link in the starting point, which had started the Robert Cray Band in 1980 with "Who's Been Talkin'", from a decade, the eighties, that turned out to be a true outbreak of young talents who gave blues music new horizons and new blood. Joe Louis Walker was one of the most heterodox bluesmen in his approaches and a true innovator in terms of the style and construction of the blues sound in those years. The bay area  bluesmen have known how to choose collaborations for his albums that allowed him to anchor in musical genres that influenced him in his beginnings, from Jazz, Gospel, Soul, Funk and even Rock'n'roll, that have made their albums authentic confluences of roots music. This last album exemplifies it.

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The Robert Cray Band
"Who's Been Talking"
Tomato Records - 1980

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Kenny Neal
"Big News From Baton Rouge !"
Alligator Records - 1988

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Melvin Taylor
"Blues On The Run"
Isabel Records - 1982

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Maurice John Vaughan
"Generic Blues Album"
Reecy Records - 1984

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Big Twist & The Mellow Fellows
"Big Twist & The Mellow Fellows"
Flying Fish - 1980

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Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials
"Roughhousin'"
Alligator Records - 1986

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Touble
"Texas Flood"
Epic records - 1983

 

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Lucky Peterson
"Lucky Strikes"
Alligator Records - 1989

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Guitar Slim Jr.
"The Story Of My Life"
Orleans Records - 1988

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John "Mad Dog" Watkins
"Here I Am"
Blue Phoenix Records - 1985

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Sons Of Blues
"Chi-Town-Hustlers - Romancing The Blue Stone"
Blue Phoenix Records - 1985

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Walter "Wolfman" Washington
"Wolf Tracks"
Rounder Records - 1986

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Valerie Wellington"
"Million Dollar Secret"
Rooster Blues Records - 1984

 

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Gary BB Coleman
"Nothin' But The Blues"
Ichiban Records - 1986

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The Kindsey Report
"Edge Of The City"
Alligator Records - 1987

 

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