Goodbye to the bluesman Joe Louis Walker

The San Francisco bluesman Joe Louis Walker He died at the age of 75. The musician, as reported by the Rolling Stone magazine, was missing following a heart disease.

During his career Walker has collaborated with numerous artists, among these, Bonnie Raitt And Mark Knopflerand opened real legends concerts like Muddy Waters And Thelonious Monk. He was considered by his colleagues an ‘musician for musicians’, Aretha Franklin he had nicknamed him “The Bluesman”.

Walker began playing the guitar as a child and began to perform live during the boom of psychedelic rock and blues of the late 1960s becoming a friend of Jimi Hendrix And Mike Bloomfield who was also his roommate. After a period spent in prison, Walker devoted himself to occasional work in the mid -seventies, then he began playing with the Gospel group Spiritual Corinthians. His entry into the group was followed by a performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1985 which led him to return to the Blues.

Speaking of that performance with Premier Guitar in 2023 he said: “I said to myself: ‘Do you know what? I am a restless soul with music’. Anyone who listens to the over 30 albums I made, will hear me do everything. It was just an omen on what would happen”.