Phillip Walker w. Otis Grand - Big Blues From Texas

Album: Big Blues From Texas
Size: 134,6 MB
Time: 58:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992/1999/2011
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Dressin' Trashy (3:51)
2. Young Devil (4:08)
3. She's Gone (7:01)
4. Bluesmobile (5:35)
5. Beatrice, Beatrice (4:07)
6. Don't Leave Me Baby (2:44)
7. Play Me Some Blues (8:53)
8. Insomnia (3:06)
9. Goodie Train (4:39)
10. She Torture Me (4:24)
11. You're So Fine (4:38)
12. Big Blues From Texas (5:01)

When this album was originally cut in 1992 Phillip Walker was already a veteran. His career spanned the early days with Clifton Chenier in Texas and Louisiana, a long stint in California and some seminal records in the 1970's with Bruce Bromberg. This CD was the start of his 'grand old man' phase. Backed by a superb band of musicians who had honed their skills on the road, Phillip's background, culture and musical experience just oozes out into the music.

For the new mix, add an engineer who's a genius at working on archive material to make something fresh. Otis Grand made three other 'and Otis Grand' albums for JSP - Guitar Shorty, Joe Houston and Joe Louis Walker. Arguably, none have made a better album. Originally this album was greeted as simply great. Now it sounds like a modern masterpiece. /Amazon

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Lonesome Sundown & Phillip Walker - From L.A. To L.A.

Year: 1983/2006
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:43
Size: 85,4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Steppin' Up In Class (2:52)
2. Trouble In My Home (2:54)
3. Gloria Belle (3:46)
4. The Trace (2:27)
5. My Bad Habit (3:08)
6. The Train (5:29)
7. If My Tears Must Fall (3:48)
8. This Is The Blues (2:40)
9. Bad Luck Is Falling (2:45)
10. Bopp's Dream (3:54)
11. Crawl Back To Opelousas (2:54)

Sequenced thoughtfully, this release collects studio recordings by both Lonesome Sundown and Phillip Walker spanning a twelve-year period from 1969-1981, playing together but also as separate leaders. It would seem the original impetus for this album was to cut songs for a record to go along with a planned 1979 Sundown/Walker tour of Japan. But that project was only barely started and never fully came to fruition. What came out of that experience is this unique compilation of sorts. Sundown is bandleader on two tracks that date from his 1977 comeback album “Been Gone Too Long” with Phillip Walker playing on one of those and then sharing the bill on three separate tracks from the 1979 session.

The other six are from Phillip Walker studio dates. Credit must go to Bruce Bastin and Dennis Walker, who also plays bass on many of these tracks, for being able to coax consistently high quality recordings from their musicians. That such a cohesive and pleasing album’s worth of music is delivered from previously unreleased material is amazing, with only one early Walker track “Bad Luck Falling” noticeable as a little “B.B.-ish”. With only a bit of Sundown’s swamp style guitar present, I would think this appeals more to Phillip Walker fans, although those Sundown tracks really make it an album.

(For personnel and recording details, see artwork included.)

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Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter & Phillip Walker - Lone Star Shooutout

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:40
Size: 147,7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Roll, Roll, Roll (3:22)
2. Boogie Rambler (3:09)
3. A Little More Time (4:21)
4. Bon Ton Roulet (3:53)
5. Feelin' Good Doin' Bad (4:14)
6. Alligators Around My Door (5:18)
7. Street Walkin' Woman (4:22)
8. This Should Go On Forever (3:39)
9. You're Playin' Hooky (3:21)
10. Born In Louisiana (5:08)
11. Quit My Baby (4:11)
12. I Can't Stand It No More (3:54)
13. I Met The Blues In Person (5:01)
14. It's Mighty Crazy (3:46)
15. Two Trains Running (5:56)

Louisiana-born and Texas-toughened, Brooks (66 at the time of this recording), Hunter (68), and Walker (62) show what blues peers can do in what seem to be peaking years. There are three numbers where all three go full-tilt; the rest of the material varies in personnel, group, and solo emphasis. The distinctive, gutsy voice of Brooks, Walker's loping guitar lines with his slightly rough, seasoned voice, and the riveting presence of Walker on all counts, musically and vocally, are showcased to consistently satisfying levels.

Of the 15 cuts, there are a handful of rockers and boogies, a few pure soul tunes and ballads, a jump blues, a Cajun calypso, and some straight blues - something for everyone. The hard-swinging "Street Walking Woman" and the slower shuffle "Feel Good Doin' Bad" are great musically, if lacking in message. Walker gets a back-to-back showcase on "I Can't Stand It No More/I Met the Blues in Person," and he tears it up. Brooks pleads and shouts on "This Should Go on Forever," while Hunter's highlights are the cautious "Alligators Around My Door" and the B.B. King cop on "Quit My Baby."

Score some plus points for Kaz Kazanoff's sax and harp playing, and the horn charts are mighty fine throughout. Speaking of unsung heroes and heroines, credit pianist Marcia Ball on three cuts, Riley Osbourn playing keys on the others, and Ervin Charles, who does yeoman-like vocal and guitar work and gets two showcase cuts on his own, the best being the Muddy Waters closer "Two Trains Running." This is a historic joining of three blues legends, with so much talent you have to give huge props. Also, buy this simply for Bruce Iglauer's info-laden song notes, alone worth the price of the CD. /Michael G. Nastos, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Phillip Walker - Live In Paris

Size: 127,4 MB
Time: 54:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. On My Way (6:31)
02. Street Walkin Woman (6:30)
03. Tin Pan Alley (6:35)
04. Breakin Up Somebody's Home (6:33)
05. Busted (6:32)
06. It's All In Your Mind (5:10)
07. Driftin (6:02)
08. Boogie Woogie Rambler (7:39)
09. I've Got A Problem (3:02)

Recorded Live October 11, 2003 in the Jazz Club Lionel Hampton, at Le Meridien Etoile in Paris, France.

Despite recording somewhat sparingly following his debut as a leader in 1959 on Elko Records with the storming rocker "Hello My Darling," Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoyed a sterling reputation as a contemporary blues guitarist with a distinctive sound honed along the Gulf Coast during the '50s. A teenaged Walker picked up his early licks around Port Arthur, Texas from the likes of Gatemouth Brown, Long John Hunter, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Lonnie "Guitar Junior" Brooks. Zydeco king Clifton Chenier hired Walker in 1953 as his guitarist, a post he held for three and a half years. In 1959, Walker moved to Los Angeles, waxing "Hello My Darling" for producer J.R. Fulbright (a song he would revive several times thereafter, most effectively for the short-lived Playboy logo). Scattered 45s emerged during the '60s, but it wasn't until he joined forces with young producer Bruce Bromberg in 1969 that Walker began to get a studio foothold. Their impressive work together resulted in a 1973 album for Playboy (reissued by HighTone in 1989), The Bottom of the Top, that remained one of Walker's finest recordings.

Walker cut a fine follow-up set for Bromberg's Joliet label, Someday You'll Have These Blues, that showcased his tough Texas guitar style (it was later reissued by Alligator). Sets for Rounder and HighTone were high points of the 1980s for the guitarist, and 1994's Big Blues from Texas (reissued in 1999) continued his string of worthy material. His 1995 set for Black Top, Working Girl Blues, showed Walker at peak operating power, combining attractively contrasting tracks waxed in New Orleans and Los Angeles. I Got a Sweet Tooth followed in 1998, and displayed no letdown in quality or power. Walker got together with fellow blues legends Lonnie Brooks and Long John Hunter in 1999 to record Lone Star Shootout for Alligator. Walker was featured as lead vocalist on four tracks and backed the others on the rest of the record. In the fall of 2002, a live recording of a spring concert was released on M.C. Records, and 2007 saw the release of Going Back Home by Delta Groove Productions. Phillip Walker died in July 2010 at the age of 73. ~Bill Dahl

Live In Paris

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Phillip Walker - Heritage Of The Blues: The Best Of Phillip Walker

Size: 105,2 MB
Time: 45:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Electric Texas Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. I'm Tough (Tough As I Want To Be) (3:51)
02. Laughin' & Clownin' (3:49)
03. Hello My Darling (2:09)
04. Tin Pan Alley (5:06)
05. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (4:39)
06. El Paso Blues (4:30)
07. If We Can Find It (2:32)
08. Breakin' Up Somebody's Home (2:58)
09. Go Ahead And Take Her (4:21)
10. The Struggle (2:43)
11. Someday You'll Have These Blues (2:42)
12. The Blues And My Guitar (6:05)

Heritage of the Blues: The Best of Phillip Walker rounds up 12 highlights from his '70s and '80s Playboy, Joliet, Rounder, and High Tone recordings. The Louisiana-born, Texas-raised Walker made records that were gritty, yet they still remained solid, soul-inflected contemporary blues albums. The bulk of the highlights from his records, including "Someday You'll Have These Blues," "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," and "Laughin' & Clownin'," are featured, making this a fine introduction to Walker's most popular recordings. If you like what you hear, check out Bottom of the Top and Tough as I Want to Be. ~Review by Al Campbell

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Various - The Finest Southern Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 85:30
Size: 195.7 MB
Styles: Southern blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:44] 1. Charlie Musselwhite - Taylor, Arkansas
[3:23] 2. Johnny Shines - If I Get Lucky
[4:21] 3. Big Leon Brooks - Country Boy
[3:19] 4. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Louisiana Zydeco
[2:44] 5. Willie Nix - Seems Like A Million Years
[5:52] 6. W.C. Clark - Tip Of My Tongue
[9:31] 7. Tinsley Ellis - Time To Quit
[3:21] 8. Phillip Walker - Roll, Roll, Roll
[6:28] 9. Johnny Copeland - Blackjack
[3:49] 10. William Clarke - Lollipop Mama
[7:13] 11. Big Mama Thornton - Ball 'n' Chain
[2:54] 12. The Song Trust - Dawg Tired
[2:37] 13. Carey Bell - That Ain't It
[2:36] 14. Bobby Lee Trammell - Come On And Love Me
[3:55] 15. C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band - Louisiana Down Home Blues
[2:09] 16. Willie Johnson Combo - So Long Baby Goodbye
[3:40] 17. Andrew Brown - Morning, Noon And Night
[4:34] 18. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Five Long Years
[6:29] 19. Hound Dog Taylor - Phillips' Theme
[3:42] 20. Rev. Gary Davis - I Won't Be Back No More

When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly emotional. From unbridled joy to deep sadness, no form of music communicates more genuine emotion.

The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The blues originated on Southern plantations in the 19th Century. Its inventors were slaves, ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves—African-American sharecroppers who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields. It's generally accepted that the music evolved from African spirituals, African chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and country dance music. The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless ways today. Unlike jazz, the blues didn't spread out significantly from the South to the Midwest until the 1930s and '40s. Once the Delta blues made their way up the Mississippi to urban areas, the music evolved into electrified Chicago blues, other regional blues styles, and various jazz-blues hybrids. A decade or so later the blues gave birth to rhythm 'n blues and rock 'n roll. ~Ed Kopp

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Johnny Fuller & Phillip Walker Band - Fullers Blues

Size: 102,4 MB
Time: 40:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Tin Pan Alley (3:23)
02. Fools Paradise (3:04)
03. Strange Land (4:32)
04. 1009 Blues (4:11)
05. You Got Me Whistling (2:47)
06. But Bruce (3:00)
07. Bad Luck Overtook Me (3:00)
08. Hard Luck Blues (3:13)
09. Crying Wont Make Me Stay (3:00)
10. Miss You So (2:53)
11. A Good Letting Alone (3:59)
12. Mercy, Mercy (3:01)

Personnel:
Bass – Dennis Walker
Drums – Johnny Tucker
Guitar – Johnny Fuller, Phillip Walker, Tony Matthews
Harmonica – Zaven 'Big John' Jambezian
Piano – Arthur Woods
Saxophone [Baritone] – David Li
Saxophone [Tenor] – David Li
Trumpet – Mike O'Connel
Vocals – Johnny Fuller

Tracks 4 and 9 were recorded at Frank Scotts Studio on June 22nd, 1973.
All other tracks were recorded at Eldorado Studios, Hollywood on June 13th and 21st, 1973.

Johnny Fuller was a West Coast blues singer and guitarist. Fuller showed musical diversity, performing in several musical genres including rhythm and blues, gospel and rock and roll. His distinctive singing and guitar playing appeared on a number of 1950s San Francisco Bay Area recordings. His best known recording, "Haunted House", was later covered with some success by Jumpin' Gene Simmons. His other better known tracks were "Crying Won't Make Me Stay", "All Night Long", "You Got Me Whistling" and "Johnny Ace's Last Letter." Fuller was born in Edwards, Mississippi on April 20, 1929. He relocated with his family in 1945 to Vallejo, California. His musical styling often masked his upbringing in the Deep South, but he spent the majority of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. As such, he is usually classified as a West Coast bluesman, although he did not stick with one particular genre. Fuller recorded for a number of independent record labels, sometimes those associated with Bob Geddins. These included Heritage, Hollywood, Flair, Specialty, Aladdin, Imperial and Checker Records. His debut recording was made in 1948 on the obscure Jaxyson record label, with a couple of gospel based songs. In 1954, he began a regular recording career which lasted until 1962. Fuller recorded twenty sides in 1954 alone for Geddins. Fuller had local hits with his singles "All Night Long" and the original version of "Haunted House," the latter of which was written and produced by Geddins. Fuller's ability to switch styles, saw him appear in late 1950s rock and roll package tours, performing on the same bill as Paul Anka and Frankie Avalon. However, this same factor lost his black audience, which left him neglected in the 1960s blues revival. In 1974, Fuller recorded his debut album, Fullers Blues in Hollywood for the small Australian label Bluesmaker. On most of the tracks he is accompanied by the Phillip Walker Band. The record was well received, but saw little commercial success. The album was re-issued in Holland on Diving Duck in 1988 and now comes available on CD for the first time. Fuller played at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1973 and 1977. In the years that followed he could not live from making music anymore and he mainly worked as a mechanic in a local garage until his death from lung cancer in Oakland, California, on May 20 1985, at the age of 56.

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Otis Grand - The Blues Sessions 1990-1994

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1997
Styles: Blues
Time: 63:14
Size: 145,7 MB
Art: Full

Phillip Walker - guitar & vocals (tracks 1-3)
Joe Houston - tenor saxophone & vocals (tracks 4-6)
Guitar Shorty - guitar & vocals (tracks 7-8)
Jimmy T-99 Nelson - vocals (tracks 9-10)
Rosco Gordon - piano & vocals (tracks 11-13)

(4:12) 1. Beatrice, Beatrice
(3:45) 2. Young Devil
(3:03) 3. Insomnia
(3:34) 4. They Killed Crazy Horse
(4:27) 5. Why Oh Why
(8:11) 6. Blues for T-Bone
(5:22) 7. Down Through the Years
(5:17) 8. No Educated Woman
(4:36) 9. Chains of Love
(4:51) 10. Jimmy's Jump Medley
(3:42) 11. Cheese & Crackers
(6:46) 12. I'm the One
(5:21) 13. Sit Right Here

This album contains studio & live songs, recorded between 1990 and 1994 with Otis Grand as an accompanist for Philip Walker, Joe Houston, Guitar Shorty, Jimmy 'T-99' Nelson and Rosco Gordon (live). The sessions on which Otis Grand has participated have all been critically acclaimed. Otis is a perfectionist, constantly striving to improve, to move onward and upward, so he welcomed the chance to work again on some of the previously issued tracks.

The Blues Sessions 1990-1994
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Percy Mayfield With The Phillip Walker Blues Band - Hit The Road Again

Year: 1983/1989
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:41
Size: 104,9 MB
Styles: Blues, jazzy blues
Scans: Full

1. River's Invitation (5:00)
2. Crying About My Baby (5:15)
3. I Dare You, Baby (3:12)
4. Baby Please (5:16)
5. The Highway Is Like A Woman (4:02)
6. Get Out And Come In (4:28)
7. I Need Love So Bad (4:08)
8. Two Years Of Torture (5:31)
9. I Wouldn't Do The Same Thing To You (3:30)
10. My Jug And I (5:15)

Recorded November 5, 1982. "Hit The Road Again" with the Phillip Walker Blues Band is a rare blues album and most of the songs are remakes of Percy's old hits like "River's Invitation", "The Highway Is Like A Woman", "Two Years Of Torture", "My Jug And I", etc. The performances are good, the mood is laid back, and the band is fine with splendid guitar from Walker and fine tenor sax from Hollis Gilmore.

Personnel:
Percy Mayfield - vocals
Phillip Walker - guitar
Hollis Gilmore - tenor saxophone
Lou Mathews - piano
Dennis Walker - bass guitar
Ed Ahern - drums

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Phillip Walker - Tough As I Want To Be

Size: 81,0 MB
Time: 34:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1984/2006
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. What Can I Do (2:46)
02. Port Arthur Blues (4:33)
03. I'm Tough (Tough As I Want To Be) (3:48)
04. Not Trustworthy (A Lyin' Woman) (2:46)
05. Wondering (3:40)
06. Think (3:34)
07. Go Ahead And Take Her (4:20)
08. Not The Same Man (3:18)
09. The Blues And My Guitar (6:03)

Despite recording somewhat sparingly since debuting as a leader in 1959 on Elko Records with the storming rocker "Hello My Darling," Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling reputation as a contemporary blues guitarist with a distinctive sound honed along the Gulf Coast during the '50s. A teenaged Walker picked up his early licks around Port Arthur, Texas from the likes of Gatemouth Brown, Long John Hunter, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Lonnie "Guitar Junior" Brooks. Zydeco king Clifton Chenier hired Walker in 1953 as his guitarist, a post he held for three-and-a-half years. In 1959, Walker moved to Los Angeles, waxing "Hello My Darling" for producer J.R. Fulbright (a song he's revived several times since, most effectively for the short-lived Playboy logo). Scattered 45s emerged during the '60s, but it wasn't until he joined forces with young producer Bruce Bromberg in 1969 that Walker began to get a studio foothold. Their impressive work together resulted in a 1973 album for Playboy (reissued by HighTone in 1989), The Bottom of the Top, that remains Walker's finest to date.

Walker cut a fine follow-up set for Bromberg's Joliet label, Someday You'll Have These Blues, that showcased his tough Texas guitar style (it was later reissued by Alligator). Sets for Rounder and HighTone were high points of the 1980s for the guitarist, and 1994's Big Blues from Texas (reissued in 1999) continued his string of worthy material. His 1995 set for Black Top, Working Girl Blues, shows Walker at peak operating power, combining attractively contrasting tracks waxed in New Orleans and Los Angeles. I Got a Sweet Tooth followed in 1998, and displayed no letdown in quality or power. Walker got together with fellow blues legends Lonnie Brooks and Long John Hunter in 1999 to record Lone Star Shootout for Alligator. Walker is featured as lead vocalist on four tracks and backs the others on the rest of the record. In the fall of 2002, a live recording of a spring concert was released on M.C. Records. ~Bio by Bill Dahl

Tough As I Want To Be

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Phillip Walker - Working Girl Blues

Size: 137,5 MB
Time: 58:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Special Built Woman (4:43)
02. Hey, Hey Baby's Gone (5:06)
03. Working Girl Blues (5:16)
04. Bad Luck (3:51)
05. Brother, Go Ahead And Take Her (4:03)
06. Thanks A Lot (For The Offer) (4:11)
07. Beatrice, Beatrice (4:36)
08. The Hustle Is On (4:04)
09. Hurry Back Home (4:07)
10. A Thing Called The Blues (4:13)
11. I Got A Problem (4:01)
12. How Long Must I Wait? (4:12)
13. Hello, My Darling (2:35)
14. My Baby's Gonna Wash Me Down (3:51)

Walker remains in fine form on this recent set, a mix of remakes of past triumphs ("Hello, My Darling," "Hey, Hey Baby's Gone") and fresh explorations. Two distinct bands were utilized -- a New Orleans crew populated by bassist George Porter, Jr., and his funky cohorts, and an L.A. posse with more of a straight-up swinging feel. ~by Bill Dahl

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Phillip Walker - I Got A Sweet Tooth

Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:07
Size: 108,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Drag Me Down (5:04)
2. My Name Is Misery (3:36)
3. Rub Some Good Luck On Me (3:31)
4. I Got A Sweet Tooth (5:20)
5. On My Way (4:14)
6. How Could I Be Such A Fool? (4:29)
7. I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy (3:25)
8. Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time (3:32)
9. Laughing And Clowning (4:45)
10. It's All In Your Mind (4:31)
11. Crying For My Baby (3:33)

Phillip Walker takes his brand of Louisiana-via-Texas blues for a thoroughly contemporary ride on this release. With two hand-picked bands recording in New Orleans and Austin, TX, Walker's sensuous and languid vocals, and his economical and taut guitar work both shine through brightly. There's only one original aboard, but Walker's interpretive skills are evident on a wide variety of material by Junior Parker and O.V. Wright. Highlights are bountiful, but his work is especially impressive on the low-down funky title track (shades of Lightnin' Hopkins, for sure) and its atmospheric kindred-spirit track, "Laughin' and Clownin'" (a slow blues that's anything but as jolly as the title implies). Strong, uncluttered production also plays a big role in making this disc such a delight on repeated listenings. /Cub Koda, AllMusic

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VA - Contemporary Blues Collaborations

Size: 139,5 MB
Time: 59:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Electric Blues, Chicago Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. B.B. King & Eric Clapton - Rock Me Baby ( 6:35)
02. Shemekia Copeland & Dr. John - The Push I Need ( 3:44)
03. Koko Taylor & Buddy Guy - Born Under A Bad Sign ( 6:22)
04. Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland - She's Into Something ( 3:49)
05. Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter & Phillip Walker - It's Mighty Crazy ( 3:44)
06. Koko Taylor & Lonnie Brooks - It's A Dirty Job ( 5:29)
07. James Cotton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell & Billy Branch - Second Hand Man ( 4:01)
08. Elvin Bishop & Little Smokey Smothers - Roll Your Moneymaker ( 4:03)
09. Corey Harris & Henry Butler - Shake What Your Mama Gave You ( 3:21)
10. Junior Wells & Junior Wells - Give Me My Coat And Shoes ( 3:48)
11. Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell - Rock Me ( 4:20)
12. All Star Jam - Sweet Home Chicago (10:27)

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Phillip Walker - The Bottom Of The Top/Blues (2 in 1)

Year: 1973/1988/1990
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:50
Size: 169,1 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use (3:00)
2. Tin Pan Alley (5:06)
3. Hello Central (3:27)
4. Hello, My Darling (2:08)
5. Laughing And Clowning (3:49)
6. Crazy Girl (3:42)
7. It's All In Your Mind (3:29)
8. The Bottom Of The Top (3:24)
9. Hey, Hey Baby's Gone (3:38)
10. Cryin' Time (3:16)
11. How Many More Years (4:03)
12. 90 Proof (4:18)
13. What'd You Hope To Gain (3:38)
14. What Did I Do Wrong (3:15)
15. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (4:40)
16. Big Rear Window (3:47)
17. Her Own Keys (4:25)
18. Talk To That Man (3:03)
19. Sometime Girl (4:06)
20. I Had A Dream (3:26)

The Bottom Of The Top (1973): There weren't many blues albums issued during the early '70s that hit harder than this one. First out on the short-lived Playboy logo, the set firmly established Walker as a blistering axeman sporting enduring Gulf Coast roots despite his adopted L.A. homebase. Of all the times he's cut the rocking "Hello My Darling," this is indeed the hottest, while his funky, horn-driven revival of Lester Williams's "I Can't Lose (With the Stuff I Use)" and his own R&B-drenched "It's All in Your Mind" are irresistible. After-hours renditions of Sam Cooke's "Laughing & Clowning" and Long John Hunter's "Crazy Girl" are striking vehicles for Walker's twisting, turning guitar riffs and impassioned vocal delivery. /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

Blues (1988): Contains a rich, reassuring reading of "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," a tune generally associated with HighTone stablemate Robert Cray (Walker's version was reportedly waxed the day before Cray's), with the Memphis Horns adding extra punch. /Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Various Artists - No Free Rides: A Budget Blues Sampler From JSP

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:49
Size: 176,1 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Phillip Walker & Otis Grand - Dressin' Trashy (3:50)
2. Tutu Jones - Stubborn Woman (3:20)
3. The Butler Twins - 1-900 (6:12)
4. Buddy Guy - Girl You're Nice & Clean (4:40)
5. Larry Garner - Thought I Had The Blues (4:49)
6. Charlie Sayles - Down And Out (2:45)
7. Guitar Shorty & Otis Grand - Hot And Saucy, Short And Grand (5:58)
8. Byther Smith - I Was Coming Home (6:00)
9. Mojo Buford - Big Leg Woman (3:46)
10. U.P. Wilson - Tell Me Baby (4:08)
11. Lefty Dizz - Where The Hell Were You When I Got Home (7:52)
12. Joe Houston & Otis Grand - Camilla's Hop (4:10)
13. Larry Garner - No Free Rides (6:15)
14. Johnny Littlejohn - You Don't Want Me (4:14)
15. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Going Back To Louisiana (4:55)
16. Fernest Arceneaux - Back To Louisiana (3:47)

JSP Records was founded on the basic idea of recording blues artists that had fresh ideas, not ones who were simply rehashing their hits from the 1950s and 1960s. John Stedman was interested in hearing new songs and comments on today, not memoirs of long ago pasts. Because of this, JSP has recorded some of the true visionaires of the blues world and also some of its most flamboyant characters. Cats like Champion Jack Dupree, Lefty Dizz, Carey Bell, Guitar Shorty and Louisiana Red all found their way into the JSP recording studios. (Excerpt from the liner notes.)

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Various - Contemporary Blues Collaborations

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:52
Size: 137.1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[ 6:35] 1. B.B. King, Eric Clapton - Rock Me Baby
[ 3:45] 2. Shemekia Copeland, Dr. John - The Push I Need
[ 6:22] 3. Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy - Born Under A Bad Sign
[ 3:49] 4. Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland - She's Into Something
[ 3:46] 5. Phillip Walker, Lonnie Brooks - It's Mighty Crazy
[ 5:28] 6. Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks - It's A Dirty Job
[ 4:02] 7. Junior Wells, James Cotton - Second Hand Man
[ 4:06] 8. Little Smokey Smothers, Elvin Bishop - Roll Your Moneymaker
[ 3:21] 9. Corey Harris & Henry Butler - Shake What Your Mama Gave You
[ 3:48] 10. Junior Wells, Buddy Guy - Give Me My Coat And Shoes
[ 4:19] 11. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Rock Me
[10:26] 12. All Star Jam - Sweet Home Chicago

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The Phillip Walker Big Band - Live At Biscuits & Blues

Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:47
Size: 149,7 MB
Styles: Electric Blues
Scans: Front

1. Hello My Darling (4:15)
2. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (5:33)
3. Think (4:52)
4. Crying For My Baby (5:59)
5. Respirator Blues (5:56)
6. Mary Ann (4:44)
7. Reconsider Baby (3:25)
8. Breaking Up Somebody's Home (4:52)
9. Go Proof (5:11)
10. I've Got A Problem (5:15)
11. Along About Midnight (7:50)
12. Linda Lu (6:50)

Despite recording somewhat sparingly since debuting as a leader in 1959 on Elko Records with the storming rocker "Hello My Darling," Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling reputation as a contemporary blues guitarist with a distinctive sound honed along the Gulf Coast during the '50s. A teenaged Walker picked up his early licks around Port Arthur, Texas from the likes of Gatemouth Brown, Long John Hunter, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Lonnie "Guitar Junior" Brooks. Zydeco king Clifton Chenier hired Walker in 1953 as his guitarist, a post he held for three-and-a-half years. In 1959, Walker moved to Los Angeles, waxing "Hello My Darling" for producer J.R. Fulbright (a song he's revived several times since, most effectively for the short-lived Playboy logo). Scattered 45s emerged during the '60s, but it wasn't until he joined forces with young producer Bruce Bromberg in 1969 that Walker began to get a studio foothold. Their impressive work together resulted in a 1973 album for Playboy (reissued by HighTone in 1989), The Bottom of the Top, that remains Walker's finest to date.

Walker cut a fine follow-up set for Bromberg's Joliet label, Someday You'll Have These Blues, that showcased his tough Texas guitar style (it was later reissued by Alligator). Sets for Rounder and HighTone were high points of the 1980s for the guitarist, and 1994's Big Blues from Texas (reissued in 1999) continued his string of worthy material. His 1995 set for Black Top, Working Girl Blues, shows Walker at peak operating power, combining attractively contrasting tracks waxed in New Orleans and Los Angeles. I Got a Sweet Tooth followed in 1998, and displayed no letdown in quality or power. Walker got together with fellow blues legends Lonnie Brooks and Long John Hunter in 1999 to record Lone Star Shootout for Alligator. Walker is featured as lead vocalist on four tracks and backs the others on the rest of the record. In the fall of 2002, a live recording of a spring concert was released on M.C. Records. ~Bio by Bill Dahl

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Phillip Walker - 2 albums: Blues / Someday You'll Have These Blues

Album: Blues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:15
Size: 87.6 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1988
Art: Front

[4:00] 1. How Many More Years
[4:16] 2. 90 Proof
[3:34] 3. What'd You Hope To Gain
[3:11] 4. What Did I Do Wrong
[4:35] 5. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
[3:44] 6. Big Rear Window
[4:23] 7. Her Own Keys
[3:00] 8. Talk To That Man
[4:04] 9. Sometime Girl
[3:23] 10. I Had A Dream

Contains a rich, reassuring reading of "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," a tune generally associated with HighTone stablemate Robert Cray (Walker's version was reportedly waxed the day before Cray's), with the Memphis Horns adding extra punch. ~Bill Dahl

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Album: Someday You'll Have These Blues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 34:23
Size: 78.7 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1977
Art: Front

[2:38] 1. Someday You'll Have These Blues
[4:06] 2. Beaumont Blues
[2:55] 3. Breakin' Up Somebody's Home
[3:42] 4. Mama's Gone
[4:08] 5. When It Needs Gettin' Done
[4:02] 6. Sure Is Cold
[2:33] 7. Part Time Love
[4:27] 8. El Paso Blues
[3:18] 9. Don't Tell Me
[2:31] 10. If We Can Find It

Recorded in 1975-76 and initially out on the short-lived Joliet logo (later Alligator picked it up; it's now out on HighTone), this collection wasn't quite the masterpiece that its predecessor was ("Breakin' Up Somebody's Home" and "Part Time Love" were hardly inspired cover choices), the set does have its moments -- the uncompromising title track and "Beaumont Blues, " to cite a couple. ~Bill Dahl

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Phillip Walker - Going Back Home

Size: 114,6 MB
Time: 48:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Lying Woman (3:09)
02. Mama Bring Your Clothes Back Home (4:25)
03. Mean Mean Woman (4:09)
04. Blackjack (3:44)
05. Honey Stew (3:15)
06. Don't Think 'cause You're Pretty (3:55)
07. Leave My Money Alone (3:11)
08. Bad Blood (3:52)
09. Lay You Down (5:15)
10. If You See My Baby (2:56)
11. Sweet Home New Orleans (2:32)
12. Happy Man Blues (3:02)
13. Walking With Frankie (4:54)

The plan going into Phillip Walker's first studio set in nearly a decade (since his last label, Black Top, went belly up) was to revisit some early influences that formed the bluesman's unique approach. Add a few similarly styled originals from producer/Delta Groove label honcho Randy Chortkoff and the results are a comeback of sorts for this classy and underappreciated journeyman guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader. Walker is no stranger to putting his personal stamp on others' songs -- his previous album was also predominantly covers -- but this one takes him back to his roots, as its title infers. He gets into a John Lee Hooker/New Orleans groove on Frankie Lee Sims' "Walking with Frankie"; slows things down on a swampy "Sweet Home New Orleans" with help from its writer, Al Blake, on harmonica; and strips the instrumentation to a core of harp, sparse drums, and tasty guitar for an emotional spin on Lightnin' Hopkins' "Don't Think 'Cause You're Pretty." He burns through Lonesome Sundown's shuffle "Leave My Money Alone" and gets lowdown with Ray Charles' "Blackjack." A backup band of talented vets lends support with a sympathetic vibe throughout. Established guitarist Rusty Zinn generally sticks to rhythm but takes lead duties on three tracks, including a peppy version of Eddie Shaw's "Mean Mean Woman," where his more driving attack meshes nicely with Walker's subtler touch. Jeff Turmes' bass work, especially on standup, provides a sturdy yet flexible bottom that perfectly supports Walker's affable vocals and stylish guitar work. Walker sounds like he's having a blast, and you can practically see the smile on his face as he greets these songs like the old friends they are. The session gels with an effortless vibe like the finest blues discs, and shows just how vital Walker remains, especially with a sympathetic producer, classy material, and a great band behind him. ~Review by Hal Horowitz

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Phillip Walker With George Harmonica Smith - The Blues Show!: Live At Pit Inn

Size: 108,1 MB
Time: 46:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1979/1998
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Hello My Darling (2:47)
02. Laughing And Clowing (6:30)
03. Yonders Wall (5:11)
04. That's All Right (8:05)
05. Blues Blowin' Up (3:34)
06. Mississippi River Blues (6:34)
07. Strange Things Happening (6:22)
08. Johnny B. Good (2:46)
09. Hello Central (5:00)

Despite recording somewhat sparingly since debuting as a leader in 1959 on Elko Records with the storming rocker "Hello My Darling," Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling reputation as a contemporary blues guitarist with a distinctive sound honed along the Gulf Coast during the '50s. A teenaged Walker picked up his early licks around Port Arthur, Texas from the likes of Gatemouth Brown, Long John Hunter, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Lonnie "Guitar Junior" Brooks. Zydeco king Clifton Chenier hired Walker in 1953 as his guitarist, a post he held for three-and-a-half years. In 1959, Walker moved to Los Angeles, waxing "Hello My Darling" for producer J.R. Fulbright (a song he's revived several times since, most effectively for the short-lived Playboy logo). Scattered 45s emerged during the '60s, but it wasn't until he joined forces with young producer Bruce Bromberg in 1969 that Walker began to get a studio foothold. Their impressive work together resulted in a 1973 album for Playboy (reissued by HighTone in 1989), The Bottom of the Top, that remains Walker's finest to date.

Walker cut a fine follow-up set for Bromberg's Joliet label, Someday You'll Have These Blues, that showcased his tough Texas guitar style (it was later reissued by Alligator). Sets for Rounder and HighTone were high points of the 1980s for the guitarist, and 1994's Big Blues from Texas (reissued in 1999) continued his string of worthy material. His 1995 set for Black Top, Working Girl Blues, shows Walker at peak operating power, combining attractively contrasting tracks waxed in New Orleans and Los Angeles. I Got a Sweet Tooth followed in 1998, and displayed no letdown in quality or power. Walker got together with fellow blues legends Lonnie Brooks and Long John Hunter in 1999 to record Lone Star Shootout for Alligator. Walker is featured as lead vocalist on four tracks and backs the others on the rest of the record. In the fall of 2002, a live recording of a spring concert was released on M.C. Records. ~Biography by Bill Dahl

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