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Joe Louis Walker, Great Guitars
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1635374
Disk length: 58m 44s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1997
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Love Down Dirty Blues | 6:58 |
| 2. First Degree | 4:22 |
| 3. Mile-Hi Club | 6:08 |
| 4. Fix Our Love | 6:05 |
| 5. Every Girl I See | 6:01 |
| 6. Cold And Evil Night | 5:23 |
| 7. Hop On It | 2:24 |
| 8. Nighttime | 5:49 |
| 9. Sugar | 6:21 |
| 10. In God's Hands | 4:28 |
| 11. High Blood Pressure | 4:38 |
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Review
By his late 40s, guitarist Joe Louis Walker was too young to be a living legend, too old to be a hot-shot blues prodigy, and too tasteful to squander his music on attention-grabbing gimmicks. Walker tried to bust out of this box by devoting his 1997 album, Great Guitars, to collaborations with his blues guitar heroes. This, too, could have turned into a backfiring gimmick, but Walker maintains firm control of the recording sessions by writing or cowriting 10 of the 11 songs, by co-producing them all, and by making sure his big, gospel-trained tenor dominates every vocal. In other words, the songs are not adjusted for the sake of the guests; the guests are asked to adjust for the sake of the songs.
Bonnie Raitt echoes Walker's tasty slide guitar from the intro to "Low Down Dirty Blues;" Ike Turner plays herky-jerky funk phrases against Walker's fluid lead on "First Degree;" Taj Mahal and Walker tackle the original blues hymn, "In God's Hands," as an acoustic duo. On Buddy Guy's old hit, "Every Girl I See," Guy himself updates his guitar solo but allows Walker to handle the lead vocal; Matt Murphy, who cowrote that song with Willie Dixon, trades guitar solos with Walker on "Nighttime." Steve Cropper from Booker T and the MG's co-produced 10 of the 11 tracks and joins Walker, Scotty Moore, Little Charlie Baty, and Gatemouth Brown for a parade of guitar solos on "Mile-Hi Club." In this case, the title Great Guitars is no hyperbole. --Geoffrey Himes
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Tracks: 11, Disk length: 58m 44s
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 58m 44s
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