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2010-08-20
7:30PM
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This is a double bill. Each artist will play a separate set.
Joe Louis Walker's “BETWEEN A ROCK & THE BLUES” won BMA Album of the Year!
For more info about the artist, please visit
Joelouiswalker.com
David Maxwell is a winner of the 2010 Blues Music Awards Acoustic Album of the Year for his "YOU GOT TO MOVE" (with Louisiana Red).
"I don't think anybody could be tighter playing the blues on the piano than David Maxwell. He plays the blues like it should be played. He plays the low-down, dirty, funky blues. He's got it all together."
-John Lee Hooker
For more info about the artist, please visit
davidmaxwell.com |
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| Joe Louis Walker ft. Murali Coryell + David Maxwell |
FEATURING:
Joe Louis Walker, guitar
Murali Coryell, guitar
David Maxwell, keyboards
Kevin Barry, electric and pedal steel guitars
Marty Ballou, electric and acoustic bass
Per Hanson, drums |
Joe Louis Walker Bio:
Background:
In many ways, Walker’s story is unusual. Born in San Francisco (on Christmas Day 1949 and now based in Westchester, New York, he was part of the Bay area blues scene in his early teens, and by the time he was 16 he had soaked up the sounds of the likes of T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn, and boogie woogie pioneers Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson. As he grew up, he found himself on stage with such disparate tutors as John Lee Hooker, Thelonius Monk, the Soul Stirrers, Steve Miller and Jimi Hendrix. And by the time he was 19 he had built a close friendship — they were roommates for many years — with Mike Bloomfield.
Bloomfield’s tragic early death persuaded the young Walker to change his life. He enrolled at San Francisco State University, earning music and English degrees — and performing regularly with a gospel group, The Spiritual Corinthians.
In 1985, he came back to the blues, fronting a new band he called The Bosstalkers, ands making the first of five albums for the Hightone label, before signing to PolyGram’s Verve/Gitanes label, for who he recorded another six albums.
These records served as an entrée into the European market. Sterling appearances at major festivals throughout Europe (North Sea Jazz, Glastonbury, Nottoden and Montreux among them) led to further tours and festivals in Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Ireland, Turkey and Brazil.
Along the way he played President George Bush’s inauguration, helped President Bill Clinton induct B.B. King into the Kennedy Centre Awards, and performed on America’s most-watched late-night television shows.
Foreground:
Joe Louis Walker is a walking encyclopedia of blues history, and blues vocal and guitar styles. In fact, one of the very few who can match his eclectic tastes in music is Duke Robillard, the veteran guitarist who founded Roomful of Blues when he was a teenager, and who has made a dozen albums for Stony Plain.
Holger Petersen, who heads the Canadian-based roots label, was delighted by the choice of Robillard as producer for “Witness for the Blues.” And for Robillard, the sessions were a joy. “There’s a lot of diversity on this CD, yet it hangs together really well.”
The material — more than half the 11 tracks were written by Walker — includes two traditional blues pieces (Sugar Mama and Rollin’ and Tumblin’) which he completely transforms. A highlight of the CD is a killer duet with Shemekia Copeland on Lover’s Holiday.
The back up players are all musicians with long experience with Robillard, including horn players Doug James and Scott Aruda, Bruce Katz on keys, Jon Ross on bass and Mark Teixeira on drums. Robillard himself adds guitar parts on five cuts.
Both vocally and instrumentally, Joe Louis Walker is indeed a witness for the blues, and the creative, sometimes startling approach to America’s most significant music holds a bright lantern for others to follow.
David Maxwell Bio:
David Maxwell has amassed an enormous resume beginning in the late 60's playing piano with some of the greatest and well known musicians in the blues including John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, Bonnie Raitt, James Cotton, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Jimmy Rodgers and Hubert Sumlin.
David plays many styles of blues, jazz and improvised music, but he is best known for his soulful virtuosity and unmatched ability to reach the heart of post-war Chicago Blues. Recently, David participated in a Blues Legends concert at Lincoln Center featuring James Cotton, Taj Mahal, Shemekia Copeland, Hubert Sumlin and Pinetop Perkins. David received the 2010 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album of the Year, "You Got To Move" (with Louisiana Red), the 2010 and 2009 Boston Music Award for Best Blues Act, a Grammy for participating in James Cotton's "Deep in the Blues" (1997), eight Blues Music Award nominations for Piano Player of the Year and many more nominations (Grammy and Blues Music ) for albums in which he participated as a sideman. To quote John Lee Hooker " I don't think anybody could be tighter playing the blues on the piano than David Maxwell. He plays the blues like it should be played. he plays the low-down, dirty funky blues. he's got ot all together."
In the last decade , David has received over a half dozen WC Handy and Grammy nominations and a Grammy Award for recorded work, as well as Handy nominations for instrumental performance He has played with many of the greats including tours with Freddie King, Bonnie Raitt, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rodgers, Charley Musselwhite, Johnny Adams and Ronnie Earl; and gigs with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Levon Helm, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulsom, Junior Wells and many others. He has been involved in well over fifty recording sessions and can be found playing keys on many blues albums that have been released over the last 25 years. David backed up Keith Richards and Eric Clapton for Hubert Sumlin's CD, "About Them Shoes" released in 2005.
David's music was used in the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" and in the TV series "Touched By An Angel". He has performed on "Late Night With Conan O' Brien" and is on several videos playing with Freddie King in the early 70's. (Rounder). David's first CD as a leader "Maximum Blues Piano"(1997, Tonecool) received high critical acclaim. His new album, "Max Attack" (2005 95North Records), features guests James Cotton, Kim Wilson, Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard, Hubert Sumlin and Pinetop Perkins .
David has performed in major festivals, theaters and clubs in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, Morocco, Israel, and Japan, and keeps busy today playing, recording, and teaching (and nurturing his interests in jazz, ethnic and improvised music.). |
