Tag Archives: Phillip Walker

Unlike a lot of his swamp blues brethren, the evocatively monikered Lonesome Sundown (the name was an inspired gift from producer J.D. Miller) wasn’t a Jimmy Reed disciple. Sundown’s somber make of blues was even more commensurate with the gruff audio of Muddy Waters. The guitarist was probably one of …

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 …

A family group affair, the Lee Young boys were among the leading lighting within the ‘Sacred Metal’ genre of gospel music. ‘Sacred Metal’ was a method of music that got root base in blues and gospel but was stylized with the launch of metal guitars within the 1930s by Willie …

Having forged a distinctive Louisiana/Chicago blues synthesis unlike anyone else’s around the competitive Windy City scene, charismatic guitarist Lonnie Brooks lengthy reigned among the town’s best bluesmen. A masterful showman, the good-natured Brooks placed on a display add up to his recordings (and that is saying a whole lot, considering …