Joe Louis Walker (b. 1949) is a U.S. blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Walker was born on 25th December 1949 in San Francisco, California; his parents were blues fans, and introduced him to the music when he was young. He learnt to play the guitar at the age of fourteen, and left home at sixteen to work as a performer. He soon met
Mike Bloomfield, who introduced him to the Bay Area Blues scene. During the 1960s, Walker opened for such artists as
Earl Hooker,
Freddie King, and
Lowell Fulson. In 1975 he left the blues scene for ten years to sing with a gospel quartet called The …
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