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Joe Louis Walker - Live At Slim's Volume 2 (1992)

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Joe Louis Walker - Live At Slim's Volume 2 (1992)

Joe Louis Walker - Live At Slim's Volume 2 (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 281 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 103 MB | Covers - 36 MB
Genre: Modern Electric Blues, Soul Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Demon Records (FIENDCD716)

More from Joe Louis Walker's searing Slim's engagement, Live at Slim's, Vol. 2 includes Joe Louis ripping through Ray Charles' "Don't You Know," and Little Milton's "Love at First Sight," and Rosco Gordon's overworked "Just a Little Bit," along with his own gems. Huey Lewis turns up again as the harpist on Walker's version of Haskell Sadler's "747."

Joe Louis Walker - In The Morning (2002)

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Joe Louis Walker - In The Morning (2002)

Joe Louis Walker - In The Morning (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 351 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 124 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Modern Electric Blues, Soul Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Telarc (CD-83541)

Rootsier than Robert Cray, more soulful than Jimmie Vaughan, and boasting a gospel background similar to the great Sam Cooke, Joe Louis Walker is a contemporary soul/bluesman who flawlessly and effortlessly mixes his diverse influences. On his first album in three years (and Telarc label debut), Walker proves he's an artist capable of terse, searing guitar solos, as on the R&B "Do You Wanna' Be With Me?"; mid-tempo, jazzy soul such as "Leave that Girl Alone"; or rugged acoustic Delta blues like the appropriate album-closing "Strangers in Our House." Walker - who began his career playing religious music - not surprisingly proves himself a more than adequate soul/gospel vocalist in the Al Green vein on the spiritual "Where Jesus Leads"…

Joe Louis Walker - Blues Of The Month Club (1995)

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Joe Louis Walker - Blues Of The Month Club (1995)

Joe Louis Walker - Blues Of The Month Club (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 371 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 137 MB | Covers - 62 MB
Genre: Modern Electric Blues, Soul Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polydor/Polygram (527 999-2)

Emotionally connected with gospel and soul as well as blues, Joe Louis Walker injects his confident singing and sophisticated, lyrical guitar-playing into an appealing program of eight originals and a song apiece from R&B great Ike Turner ("You've Got to Lose"), world-famous R&B scribe Dan Penn (with songwriting help from fellow Nashville resident Gary Nicholson on the title cut), and his dependable Bosstalkers band ("Second Street"). For certain, Walker's individual way with a song is memorable, inviting return listens. Special guests this time around include bass great Steve Cropper, who helped Walker produce the record; the ever-busy Memphis Horns; and, not least, the church singers The Spiritual Corinthians.

Joe Louis Walker - New Direction (2004)

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Joe Louis Walker - New Direction (2004)

Joe Louis Walker - New Direction (2004)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 388 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 128 MB | Covers - 31 MB
Genre: Modern Electric Blues, Soul Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Irond (CD 04-DD181)

Joe Louis Walker is quite the triple threat. Not only is he a superb blues guitarist, with remarkable fluency and imagination, he's also an excellent singer (as you might expect from someone who came up through gospel groups), and an excellent writer with a strong penchant for soul music. For the most part, his blues isn't the heart-wrenching type, but deals with mistrust and double-dealing ("Messed My Mind Up") and good times ("Custom Cars, Gibson Guitars"). Throughout he blurs the line between blues and soul, which effectively makes this one of the best soul albums in a long time, as he shows on "Do You Love Me" and "You Don't Love Me Girl." With "Soldier for Jesus" his blues mixes with gospel, and some wonderful guitar work…

Joe Louis Walker - Witness To The Blues (2008)

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Joe Louis Walker - Witness To The Blues (2008)

Joe Louis Walker - Witness To The Blues (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 438 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 145 MB | Covers - 29 MB
Genre: Blues, Modern Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Stony Plain (SPCD1337)

Joe Louis Walker deserves all the respect he gets, and he gets a lot - as a singer, a producer, a guitarist in multiple styles, a songwriter, and a harmonica player. But that doesn't prevent his first album for the Stony Plain label from being something of a mixed bag. One of Walker's great strengths is the authority with which he can play several different varieties of blues: his version of "It's a Shame" is a supremely confident, horn-driven Chicago blues exercise, while "Midnight Train" evokes the subtler chug of a John Lee Hooker song. "Lover's Holiday" (a lovely duet with Shemekia Copeland) is New Orleans-style R&B, and "Hustlin'" features some very fine barrelhouse piano by Bruce Katz. And that's just the first four tracks, in order…

Joe Louis Walker - Heritage of the Blues: Ridin' High - Live [Recorded 1990] (2003)

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Joe Louis Walker - Heritage of the Blues: Ridin' High - Live [Recorded 1990] (2003)

Joe Louis Walker - Heritage of the Blues: Ridin' High - Live [Recorded 1990] (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 442 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 152 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Blues, Modern Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: High Tone Records (HCD8162)

First and foremost, punters should be aware: Heritage of the Blues: Ridin' High Live is not a new live album by California bluesman Joe Louis Walker. This is a single-disc compilation from the two Live at Slim's dates in November of 1990 that were previously issued on Hightone. These sides have been remastered, and three unreleased tracks have been thrown in to the mix: "Alligator," "Prove Your Love," and "Personal Baby." That said, this is a very tight, completely rollicking set that showcases Walker at a turning point in his career when he was just becoming known on a national scale. His playing is fiery, raw, and stinging. His singing is full of emotion and good-natured blues grace, and his band kicks ass. The three new tracks do beg the question as to why they were left off the initial two albums, and revisiting "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing" with Texas blues and R&B goddess Angela Strehli still sends chills down the spine…

Joe Louis Walker - Blue Soul (1989)

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Joe Louis Walker - Blue Soul (1989)

Joe Louis Walker - Blue Soul (1989)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 263 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 99 MB | Covers - 31 MB
Genre: Blues, Soul Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Demon Records (FIEND CD 159)

Another winner sporting memorable songs ("T.L.C.," "Personal Baby," "City of Angels," "Prove Your Love"), sinuous grooves, and a whole lot of vicious guitar from one of the hottest relatively young bluesmen on the circuit. He goes it alone on the finale, "I'll Get to Heaven on My Own," sounding as conversant with the country blues tradition as he does with the contemporary stuff.

Joe Louis Walker - Hellfire (2012)

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Joe Louis Walker - Hellfire (2012)

Joe Louis Walker - Hellfire (2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 401 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 127 MB | Covers - 34 MB
Genre: Blues, Soul Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Alligator Records (CD 4945)

Joe Louis Walker can play guitar and that’s the truth. The Chicago-based blues singer has been a presence on that city’s music scene for decades now, releasing albums on an almost annual basis since the late 1980s. Alibums such as 1990’s Gift and 2003’s Between a Rock and the Blues reveal a musician with serious guitar chops as well as a gospel-tinged megaphone of a voice. Never a purist, Walker is unafraid to incorporate plenty of rock and roll and even a little funk into his arrangements. Hellfire is Walker’s first album for the blues standard-bearers over at Alligator Records, and the set is a knockout, showcasing a wide variety of approaches unified by his incendiary guitar throttling and those expressive, angst-ridden vocals.

Joe Louis Walker - The Gift (1988)

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Joe Louis Walker - The Gift (1988)

Joe Louis Walker - The Gift (1988)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 270 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 102 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Blues, Soul Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Hightone Records (HCD 8012)

Although it didn't enjoy the major label hype that his current output does, Walker's HighTone encore just may be his finest album of all, filled with soulful vocal performances, bone-cutting guitar work, and tight backing from the Boss Talkers and the Memphis Horns. Honestly, you can't go wrong with any of Walker's remarkably consistent HighTone discs - but give this one the slightest of edges over the rest.

Joe Louis Walker - Blues Survivor (1993)

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Joe Louis Walker - Blues Survivor (1993)

Joe Louis Walker - Blues Survivor (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 407 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Scans ~ 65 Mb | 01:04:09
Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues, Jazz-Blues | Label: Verve/Gitanes Jazz | # 519 063-2

By no means a bad album, Walker's major-label debut just wasn't quite as terrific as what directly preceded it. The studio atmosphere seems a bit slicker than before, and the songs are in several cases considerably longer than they need to be (generally in the five- to seven-minute range). A reworking of Howlin' Wolf's "Shake for Me" is the only familiar entry.

Joe Louis Walker - Everybody Wants A Piece (2015)

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Joe Louis Walker - Everybody Wants A Piece (2015)

Joe Louis Walker - Everybody Wants A Piece (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 375 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 124 MB | Covers - 113 MB
Genre: Blues, Soul Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Provogue Records (PRD 7474 2)

Joe Louis Walker is one of the most interesting guitarists on the contemporary blues scene, not to mention one of the most prolific; 2015's Everybody Wants a Piece is Walker's 25th album since he made his debut with 1986's Cold Is the Night, and it hardly sounds like the work of someone padding his résumé. Walker is a player who keeps his music lively by mixing up the formula, folding plenty of rock, R&B, and Latin influences into his work instead of laying out the typical 12-bar figures all over again, and Everybody Wants a Piece finds him shaking it up with impressive results, especially on the wah-wah-fortified and rocked-up cover of "Witchcraft," a slinky interpretation of "Wade in the Water" that mixes up gospel and funk influences, the rollicking boogie-woogie of "Buzz on You," and the slide guitar shuffle of "35 Years Old"…

Joe Louis Walker - Hornet's Nest (2014)

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Joe Louis Walker - Hornet's Nest (2014)

Joe Louis Walker - Hornet's Nest (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 377 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 117 Mb | Scans ~ 41 Mb | 00:51:19
Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues, Texas Blues | Label: Alligator | # ALCD 4959

Joe Louis Walker is the John Henry of the blues, a guy who works hard and isn't afraid to put his back into his music. Hornet's Nest is the man's tenth studio album since the dawn of the 21st century, and not a few journeyman bluesmen would be very, very happy to come up with a session this strong and diverse with twice the time to prepare. Walker and his band are in tight, ferocious form on Hornet's Nest, with Walker's blazing lead guitar work supported by Reese Wynans' rollicking keyboards, Rob McNelley's able second guitar, Tommy MacDonald's rock-solid bass, and Tom Hambridge's aggressive but tasteful drumming. The song list is eclectic, ranging from the hard-edged rock-leaning sound of the title cut, the psychedelic flourishes of "Not in Kansas Anymore," and the soulful, horn-fortified strut of "All I Wanted to Do" to the gospel-influenced moods of "Keep the Faith" and the down-home slide guitar showcase "I'm Gonna Walk Outside." And Walker's taste in covers is commendable, adding doo wop-style vocals to Jesse Stone's "Don't Let Go" and turning the Rolling Stones' "Ride On, Baby" into a roadhouse rocker whose twin-keyboard attack recalls Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band.

Joe Louis Walker - Weight of the World (2023)

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Joe Louis Walker - Weight of the World (2023)

Joe Louis Walker - Weight of the World (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+log+.cue) - 380 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 180 Mb | Covers included | 00:47:57
Blues, Soul | Label: Forty Below Records / RU

Forty Below Records releases Weight of the World, the new album by award-winning Blues and Roots musician Joe Louis Walker. A Blues Hall of Fame inductee and six-time Blues Music Award winner, NPR described Walker as "a legendary boundary-pushing icon of modern blues." His 2015 release, Everyone Wants a Piece, was nominated for the Contemporary Blues Grammy. In addition, Walker dueted with B.B. King on his Grammy Award-winning Blues Summit album and played guitar on James Cotton's Grammy-winning album Deep in the Blues.

Joe Louis Walker, Bruce Katz, Giles Robson - Journeys To The Heart Of The Blues (2018)

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Joe Louis Walker, Bruce Katz, Giles Robson - Journeys To The Heart Of The Blues (2018)

Joe Louis Walker, Bruce Katz, Giles Robson - Journeys To The Heart Of The Blues (2018)
Blues | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (TIF) | 52:18 | 353,45 Mb
Label: Alligator Records (USA) | Cat.# ALCD 4987 | Released: 2018-10-26

"Journeys The Heart Of The Blues", a dynamic new acoustic album from three of the blues' best players. Together, Grammy-winning guitarist vocalist and Blues Hall Of Farner Joe Louis Walker, virtuoso pianist Bruce Katz and next­ generation British harmonica ace Giles Robson take listeners on a musical tour of beautifully played, soulfully sung traditional blues. The album features a carefully chosen collection of eleven stripped­ down, unadulterated rare and classic blues and one newly written instrumental, all performed by absolute masters of the form. The album was conceived in December of 2016 when Joe Louis Walker first met and jammed with Giles Robson at a festival in the Netherlands. Robson imagined recording an acoustic blues album with Walker. Walker quickly agreed, and suggested adding famed piano player Bruce Katz to the mix. The result is "Journeys To The Heart Of The Blues".

Dave Alvin with Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, Billy Boy Arnold, Joe Louis Walker - Live In Long Beach 1997 (2015)

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Dave Alvin with Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, Billy Boy Arnold, Joe Louis Walker - Live In Long Beach 1997 (2015)

Dave Alvin - Live In Long Beach 1997 (2015)
with Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, Billy Boy Arnold, Joe Louis Walker

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 347 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans included
Label: RockBeat Records | # ROC-CD-3285 | Time: 01:03:28
Blues, Roots Rock, Americana, Country Rock, Rock & Roll

In 1997, Dave Alvin – former guitarist and songwriter with the Blasters, and one of the leading advocates of classic blues and R&B on the West Coast roots rock scene – played a special show in Long Beach, California, where he was joined by three very special guests. The fabled Texas fiddler and guitarist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Chicago harmonica master Billy Boy Arnold, and San Francisco-born blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker all sat in with Alvin that evening, making for a very eventful evening for fans of blues and American roots music. The show was captured on tape, and Live in Long Beach 1997 allows listeners to hear Alvin mix it up on-stage with a few of his heroes. Songs include "Barn Burning", "Long White Cadillac", "I Wish You Would", "Chains of Love", "Jolie Blon", "Wabash Cannonball", and more.