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Joe Louis Walker - Black & Blue - BB King's, NYC 4.16.17

Joe Louis Walker and his impressive band stomping through some killer material at NYC's best blues club, BB King's.

Joe Louis Walker - guitar / vocals
Murali Coryell - guitar / vocals
Lenny Bradford - bass
Byron Cage - drums
Will Gorman - keyboards

JLW interview from 2013:

TheBluesMobile
on 22 March, 2013 at 05:32

Joe Louis Walker was a teenage guitar hero in the San Francisco sixties. After the death of his friend, Michael Bloomfield, he turned his back on the blues to concentrate on his faith, and his education. Then in 1985, he came roaring back. And he has been roaring ever since. Joe’s latest record is called HELLFIRE. Elwood will put some of that in a bottle for you.

ELWOOD
Joe, welcome back to The Bluesmobile

WALKER
Thank you so much for having me, it’s just like being just like coming home.

ELWOOD
You are being inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame this year, partly because of your guitar chops and partly because of your songwriting abilities. You’ve been writing songs for many, many years how has your process changed, if at all?

WALKER
I’m a believer in strength in numbers so I have people that I write with, then I have some personal songs that I write on my own, I’ve been writing the last three or four years with a guy named Jo Jo Russo and we did a lot of things and now I’m writing with a guy named Tom Hambridge who’s doing Buddy Guy and Lynyrd Skynyrd and everything, we both write the same, we write quick. You know because once you start trying to edit everything you can’t get to the groove of the song, you’re so worried about being whatever it is, politically correct or you don’t want to hit the wrong chord or something like that. Then you lose your train of thought as to which way you originally started at which is to write a ass kicking song. You know or autobiographical song. You can get caught with a lot of “I don’t wanna put this in that because that’ll sort of piss off Susie and” … well you know it’s a way to put it without p.o.ing Susie but if you don’t keep going, when you stop yourself its over with.

ELWOOD
And it is the blues after all, its probably best not to over think it right?

WALKER
Well I just don’t write blues. I’ve made records with Nick Lowe, Scotty Moore and the whole Elvis Presley band, so I mean I just don’t write one, the misconception about me is that I’m just blues. I’m just known for blues.

ELWOOD
Well let’s explore that a little bit I mean you encompass so many different styles and you’ve had so many different musical influences in your life, how do you focus that into your own sound?

WALKER
Well you know I have a lot of mentors. But the most famous one was Willie Dixon. We’d go in his garage in Glendale and we’d work on this and work on that and then after about an hour Willie would say, “Joe your style is all over the place and that is your style, all over the place. But it’s all over the places that you’ve been.”

ELWOOD
Still. The blues is definitely at the foundation. And why is it that the blues is the root?

WALKER
Well you know a lot of people have opinions about it. I tend to defer to Willie Dixon that the blues are the facts of life. And the facts of life are this. You got somebody you love, don’t love you. You’re low on money, the country’s low on money. It could be they’re taking back Wall Street or they’re not taking back Wall, but that’s all the blues. I mean Shakespeare was the number one blues guy. The human condition put down on a piece of paper and acted out and come to find out that we all feel that same human condition, white, black, green or yellow, we all go through those same emotions and those same conditions. And that’s the blues.

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