Robert Walker

Blues guitarist and vocalist/songwriter Robert “Bilbo” Walker grew up in the center from the Mississippi Delta. Given birth to Feb 19, 1937, around the Borden Plantation in Clarksdale, Walker matters Muddy Waters, Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, and Ike Turner among his early stylistic affects. He lives in California and gets back again to Mississippi regularly, and it displays. The music Walker and his bandmates create on the two Rooster Blues produces, 1997’s Promised Property and 2001’s Rock and roll the Night, is usually natural and in that person, straight from the juke bones from the Delta. Walker was called after his dad, Robert “Bilbo” Walker Sr., who was simply also nicknamed “Bilbo” — that’s how Walker Jr. obtained the nickname, which he hates. As he clarifies within the liner records to Promised Property, people in his Clarksdale house would distinguish between his dad and him by discussing them as Big Bilbo and Small Junior Bilbo. Later on, after he started creating a name for himself in Delta juke bones, Walker was known as Chuck Berry Jr. Walker is usually a totally self-taught musician who has piano, electric guitar, and drums. He got his musical education because of his father, who have “Small Junior Bilbo” playing piano behind a drape at nation juke joint parts around his indigenous Clarksdale. His dad paid three dollars and got Walker his initial electric guitar, and he started playing at age group eight. He started playing acoustic guitar professionally in chapel as an adolescent, but after his sister began dating among the guys in another of Ike Turner’s early rings, he had the chance to understand showmanship firsthand from Turner. He started teaching himself Turner and Muddy Waters music on acoustic guitar. When Chuck Berry’s 1st recordings had been released in the 1950s, Walker modeled a lot of his acoustic guitar design after Berry’s, he stated in his liner records to Promised Property, his debut for Rooster Blues. He started producing outings to Chicago, created a music group with bassist David Porter, and both have performed collectively most of the time since that time. Walker spent 17 years in Chicago, most of the time coping with Porter. Following a opportunity booking in the Rodeway Inn in Bakersfield, CA, Walker made the decision he enjoyed that city more than enough to stay on the market, because he previously by this aspect also learned to try out traditional nation music. He bought property near Bakersfield and grew natural cotton and watermelons for another couple of years, moonlighting being a musician around Bakersfield and producing frequent trips back towards the Delta or Chicago. Walker was therefore successful being a farmer and business owner that he could purchase himself a limousine, a bus, along with a motorbike. Walker first created his exclusive one-handed electric guitar design — which he shows a few momemts of for the most part of his displays — while he was in Chicago, playing on Maxwell Road. As he points out in his liner records to Promised Property: “Famous music artists like B.B. Ruler and them, they completed do about everything using a electric guitar could be completed, just like you want to attempt to best them men like B.B. Ruler, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Pal Guy, well, you truly have got to produce somethin’ the planet probably never seen do. And I’m the onliest guy alive can place that sort of display on with your guitar with one hands like that….I needed to become somethin’ individuals could says, ‘Good, nobody else can do this but Robert Walker.'” Another 1990s launch from Walker well worth seeking out is usually Rompin’ & Stompin’ for the brand new York City-based Fedora label.