Peter Walker

Although he only released two albums within the mid-’60s, Peter Walker influenced a complete host of subsequent guitarists along with his modal drone explorations of Eastern music forms and his tests with raga and flamenco. Created in 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, right into a musical family members (his father performed acoustic guitar and his mom performed piano), Walker used your guitar early, although he didn’t commence to play in public areas until around 1959. Throughout a stint in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA he noticed the famous Ravi Shankar perform and Walker’s lifelong desire for Eastern raga was created, together with his like enthusiasm for the flamenco custom. He analyzed with Shankar for a while in LA and also examined with Ali Akbar Khan in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Time for the Boston region, he became a normal over the 1960s Cambridge and Greenwich Community folk moments, where he became good friends with guitarist Sandy Bull as well as the tragic folksinger Karen Dalton (Walker was at her aspect when she passed on from Helps). Walker released the important Rainy Time Raga LP on Vanguard Information in 1966, pursuing it with another Vanguard LP, Second Poem to Karmela, or Gypsies ARE ESSENTIAL, two years afterwards in 1968, and dropped from the music picture, settling in upstate NY to improve his family members. He continuing his exploration of your guitar, though, and journeyed to Spain to immerse himself within the tight-knit flamenco electric guitar community there. Rediscovered by Joshua Rosenthal of Tompkins Square Information, Walker added four new acoustic guitar pieces to some Raga for Peter Walker, that was released in 2008 on Rosenthal’s label and presented tribute paths from famous brands Jack Rose, Wayne Blackshaw, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Thurston Moore, and Greg Davis. In November of 2013, Delmore Recordings released his previously unreleased early-’70s recording Offers Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?