Phillip Walker

Phillip Walker

Infobox musical artist
Name = Phillip Walker


Img_capt = Phillip Walker at the Long Beach Blues Festival, 2000
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Phillip Walker
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Born = Birth date and age|1937|2|11|mf=y
Died =
Origin = Welsh, Louisiana
Instrument = Vocals, Guitar
Genre = Blues
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1953-
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URL = [http://www.phillipwalker.com/ http://www.phillipwalker.com/ ]
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Phillip Walker (born February 11 1937, Welsh, Louisiana) is a contemporary blues guitarist most noted for his 1959 hit single, "Hello My Darling", produced by J.R. Fulbright. Although Walker has continued playing since then, he has recorded fairly sparsely.

Career

Walker grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast, and by his mid-teens was playing guitar in Houston. He rubbed shoulders with Lonesome Sundown (whom he would work again in the 1970s) and Lonnie Brooks. In the mid-1950s he had a spell in Clifton Chenier's band. He spent the 1960s in Los Angeles, California leading a band that played a catholic repertoire of the R&B charts, joined by his singing wife Ina, alias Bea Bopp. Singles furnished his album "The Bottom of the Top" (Playboy, 1973), succeeded by sets for Joliet, Rounder, Hightone, JSP and Black Top.cite book
first= Tony
last= Russell
year= 1997
title= The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
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publisher=Carlton Books Limited
location= Dubai
pages= p. 180
id= ISBN 1-85868-255-X]

Walker is also known for his variety of styles and the changes he would often make for each album. Not until 1969 did he begin to record more regularly when he joined with producer Bruce Bromberg. Since then, fans of the blues guitarist have had a more steady supply of Walker's music.

Walker's latest studio release is "Going Back Home" (2007) on Delta Groove Productions.

Discography

*1973 "Bottom of the Top" (Playboy)
*1977 "Someday You'll Have These Blues" (Joliet)
*1980 "The Blues Show! Live at Pit Inn" (Yupiteru)
*1982 "From L.A. to L.A." (Rounder)
*1984 "Tough As I Want to Be" (Rounder)
*1988 "Blues" (Hightone)
*1994 "Big Blues from Texas" (JSP)
*1995 "Working Girl Blues" (Black Top)
*1998 "I Got a Sweet Tooth" (Black Top)
*2002 "Live at Biscuits & Blues" (M.C.)
*2007 "Going Back Home" (Delta Groove Productions)

References

External links

* [http://www.music-city.org/Phillip-Walker/discography/ Phillip Walker discography from Music City]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:45rj281r053a Allmusic.com artist overview]
* [http://www.phillipwalker.com Official website]


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