The Blues Blogger » Classic Rock http://thebluesblogger.com Reflective Blues & Jazz Revue ... Mon, 21 May 2012 15:27:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 info@thebluesblogger.com (The Blues Blogger) info@thebluesblogger.com (The Blues Blogger) http://thebluesblogger.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg The Blues Blogger http://thebluesblogger.com 144 144 Reflective Blues & Jazz Revue ... The Blues Blogger The Blues Blogger info@thebluesblogger.com no no Joe Louis Walker: Appears on Conan March 5th http://thebluesblogger.com/1178/joe-louis-walker-appears-on-conan-march-5th http://thebluesblogger.com/1178/joe-louis-walker-appears-on-conan-march-5th#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:59:44 +0000 The Blues Blogger http://thebluesblogger.com/?p=1178

One Of My Favorite Performers

Joe Louis Walker will be appearing on TBS’s Conan on Monday March 5th, 2012. JLW and his band will perform the song “Ride All Night” from his new Alligator Records debut CD Hellfire.

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]]> http://thebluesblogger.com/1178/joe-louis-walker-appears-on-conan-march-5th/feed 2 0:04:24 One Of My Favorite Performers Joe Louis Walker will be appearing on TBS’s Conan on Monday March 5th, 2012. JLW and his band will perform the song “Ride All Night” from his new Alligator Records debut CD Hellfire. Walker is no stranger [...] One Of My Favorite Performers Joe Louis Walker will be appearing on TBS’s Conan on Monday March 5th, 2012. JLW and his band will perform the song “Ride All Night” from his new Alligator Records debut CD Hellfire. Walker is no stranger to the music business. His discography includes 23 albums and 2 DVDs. And throughout his illustrious career has gathered four Blues Music Awards, including the 2010 Album of the Year Award for Between A Rock And The Blues. Walker has recorded as a guest with some of blues most distinguished artists; including appearances on Grammy-winning records by B.B. King and James Cotton. JOE LOUIS WALKER At 16 years old Walker held the position of house guitarist at The Matrix in San Francisco. The Matrix was a significant place in the influential years of the San Francisco music scene. It featured not only rock bands, but many blues and jazz artists. It was a favorite spot of journalist Hunter S. Thompson in the late 1960s. The club was briefly mentioned in his book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was The Matrix where Walker opened for a diverse assortment of artists like Jimi Hendrix, Thelonius Monk and Lightnin Hopkins, just to name a few. Walker met guitarist Michael Bloomfield in 1968 and they became good friends. The two shared an apartment for years; remaining friends until Bloomfield’s death in 1981. Bloomfield would be an early influence in Walker’s rock oriented style. Since then, Joe Louis Walker has played in numerous groups and genres, including gospel, R&B and some good old rock n roll. On Hellfire, Walker’s latest Alligator Records release, he scorches with rocket fueled passion; possessed with an energetic rock blues feel. Walker describes Hellfire as the most deeply soulful album of his career. You can go to one of my previous articles I wrote on JLW a few years back. There you will find further bio information and video performances of Joe and his band. How familiar are you with Joe Louis Walker’s career? Will you (or did you) watch Joe on Conan? What are your thoughts? Please leave any comments in the area below. You’re input is encouraged and helps enhance the posts you read here. The Blues Blogger JLW on Conan For Viewers in The U.S. Only blues, Rock info@thebluesblogger.com no no Muddy Waters: Fathers and Sons http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons http://thebluesblogger.com/686/muddy-waters-fathers-and-sons#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:04:06 +0000 The Blues Blogger http://thebluesblogger.com/?p=686

It was around this time 42 years ago that Muddy Waters started working on his double vinyl release Fathers and Sons… And since today would’ve been Muddy’s 96th birthday, I want to briefly commemorate not only the album, but the man they called “Father

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Happy 67th Birthday to music legend Johnny Winter. An incredible artist whose music continues to inspire us. Here’s one of my favorite articles originally featured two years ago with updated tour info… Make sure you add your comments at the end of the post!

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February 6, 2011

As my 15 year old son and I settled in to watch the Super Bowl last week, we were surrounded by an assortment of munchies on the table in front of us. Unfortunately I was feeling a little down, and my son … Read the rest

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“This record’s one of the things that’s held me together… Because when I woke up in the hospital from this incredibly big surgery, I held on to the idea that, hey man, you’ve got a record in the can!”~ Gregg Allman

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