Phillip Walker

Despite saving somewhat sparingly since debuting like a innovator in 1959 about Elko Records using the storming rocker “Hi there My Darling,” Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling status as a modern blues guitarist with a unique sound honed across the Gulf Coastline through the ’50s. A teenaged Walker found his early licks around Slot Arthur, Tx from famous brands Gatemouth Brown, Very long John Hunter, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Lonnie “Acoustic guitar Junior” Brooks. Zydeco ruler Clifton Chenier employed Walker in 1953 as his guitarist, a post he kept for three-and-a-half years. In 1959, Walker relocated to LA, waxing “Hello My Darling” for maker J.R. Fulbright (a tune he’s revived many times since, most successfully for the short-lived Playboy logo design). Dispersed 45s emerged through the ’60s, nonetheless it wasn’t until he became a member of forces with youthful manufacturer Bruce Bromberg in 1969 that Walker begun to get a studio room foothold. Their amazing work together led to a 1973 record for Playboy (reissued by HighTone in 1989), UNDERNEATH of the very best, that continues to be Walker’s finest up to now. Walker cut an excellent follow-up established for Bromberg’s Joliet label, Someday YOU SHOULD HAVE These Blues, that showcased his hard Texas guitar design (it had been afterwards reissued by Alligator). Models for Rounder and HighTone had been high factors of the 1980s for the guitarist, and 1994’s Big Blues from Tx (reissued in 1999) continuing his string of valuable materials. His 1995 established for Black Best, Working Young lady Blues, displays Walker at top operating power, merging attractively contrasting paths waxed in New Orleans and LA. I ACQUIRED a Sweet Teeth implemented in 1998, and shown no letdown in quality or power. Walker met up with fellow blues legends Lonnie Brooks and Long John Hunter in 1999 to record Lone Superstar Shootout for Alligator. Walker can be featured as business lead vocalist on four paths and backs others on all of those other record. In nov 2002, a live documenting of a springtime concert premiered on M.C. Information.