Everybody Wants A Piece

Joe Louis Walker

SKU: PRD74741

Barcode: 819873012184

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  • Genre: Blues
  • Label: Provogue
  • Released Date: 5th October 2015
  • Buying Format:
    180g 2LP Includes Download Code

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• Joe Louis Walker is known worldwide as one of the genre’s top musical trailblazers—a mesmerizing guitarist and soul-testifying vocalist and was inducted into The Blues Hall Of Fame in 2013
• He has earned a stunning total of 48 W.C Handy/Blues Music Award nominations on his way to four wins.
• Joe Louis Walker was chosen by President Bill Clinton and Hilary Rodham Clinton to induct the legendary B.B. King into the Kennedy Centre Awards.
• Performed at all the major festivals during the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s, including Glastonbury, Nottoden, and Montreux.

Joe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner celebrates a career that exceeds a half a century. His new album Everybody Wants A Piece cements his legacy as a prolific torchbearer for the blues. Looking back on his rich history, Walker shares, “I’d like to be known for the credibility of a lifetime of being true to my music and the blues. Sometimes I feel I’ve learned more from my failures, than from my success. But that’s made me stronger and more adventurous. And helped me create my own style, I’d like to think that when someone puts on one of my records they would know from the first notes, ‘That’s Joe Louis Walker.'”

Always an artist deeply expressive lyrically, Walker continues to write and sing about themes that are universal. On “Black & Blue” he talks about a love affair that’s falling apart, but there’s an effort to keep it going. He offers, “The lyric ‘Let’s find a quiet place, A place out of town…We Need to talk this thru, Be honest & True’ says it all in trying to save the relationship.” He cites the title track as a composition that might not have a deep meaning, but in presenting the thought, “Everybody wants a piece of your love”, offers a double entendre that speaks for itself. With a deep history and background in gospel, Walker looks towards “Wade in the Water” as an instant all-time favorite. He reveals, “The inspirational lyric ‘The water is deep, the water is cold, it chills my body, BUT NOT MY SOUL’ is expressing my belief that the spiritual will carry you through when the physical can’t.”

This time out Joe has brought on Paul Nelson to produce his album which was recorded at his famed Chop Shop studio on the east coast. Nelson is a Grammy winning guitarist/producer who was rock/blues legend Johnny Winter’s guitarist, and who also appears as guest guitarist on two tracks on Everybody Wants A Piece.

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Track Listings

A1 Everybody Wants A Piece
A2 Do I Love Her
A3 Buzz On You

B1 Black & Blue
B2 Witchcraft
B3 One Sunny Day

C1 Gospel Blues
C2 Wade In The Water

D1 Man Of Many Words
D2 Young Girls Blues
D3 35 Years Old

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