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Willie Walker

b. 1896, SC, USA, d. 4 March 1933, Greenville, SC, USA. Blind from delivery, Walker worked just being a musician, and was playing electric guitar within a string music group with Rev. Gary Davis by 1911. Josh Light stated that ‘ Blind Blake was fast but Walker was like Artwork Tatum.’ That is zero exaggeration, as Walker’s issued 1930 recordings, specifically the two uses of ‘South Carolina Rag’, ably confirm. He was a solid singer, nonetheless it is normally his electric guitar that instantly astonishes: lightning-fast but impeccably apparent (and admirably associated with Sam Brooks). A minimum of a few of Walker’s playing is apparently a transfer to your guitar of mandolin figurations. It’s been speculated that on ‘Dupree Blues’ he flatpicks the bass strings and concurrently fingerpicks the treble; certainly his skills were kept in awe by previous associates also 40 years after his loss of life from congenital syphilis.

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