Johnny “Big Moose” Walker

b. John Mayon Walker, 27 June 1927, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA, d. 27 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Of partially Native American share, Walker learned to try out several tools in his teenagers but was known mainly like a pianist. He started touring with blues rings from 1947, playing piano and body organ, and caused many Mississippi performers within the 40s and early 50s, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy ‘Grain Miller’ Williamson, Lowell Fulson and Choker Campbell. Walker’s most long lasting associations had been with Elmore Wayne and Earl Hooker, to whose recordings he produced telling efforts on piano, although his body organ work was much less successful. He offered in america Military between 1952 and 1955 and documented in his very own befitting Ike Turner in 1955, although results weren’t released before past due 60s. Paths that Walker produced the same yr for the Ultra label had been released beneath the name ‘Moose John’. In the past due 50s, he resolved in Chicago, and on the following three years became an in-demand program player for famous brands Elmore Wayne (as ‘Bushy Mind’), Otis Hurry, Muddy Waters (on bass), Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Boy Seals. He also documented several single albums in america and European countries before some strokes finished his working profession.