For those not in the know, one of most celebrated and respected bluesmen working today, Joe Louis Walker returns with some of the most electrifying recordings he’s done in his over 4 decade long career!

Entitled Eclectic Electric (and released November 12th, 2021 via Cleopatra Blues Records), this extraordinarily diverse set includes both incredible new compositions including the blues stomping opener Uptown Girl Blues and horn-powered Bad Betty, as well as killer cover versions of The Eagles’ Hotel California and Warren Zevon’s Werewolves Of London.

The album also includes special guest performances by Waddy Wachtel, Doyle Bramhall II and the incomparable B.B. King Blues Band!

Walker is a road dog like no other and he has a string of shows lined up to support this album and excite his enormously supportive fanbase! Available on both CD packaged in a digipak and on RED vinyl!

1. Uptown Girl Blues
2. Wine
3. Bad Betty
4. Gone and Alone
5. Hotel California
6. Regal Blues
7. Make No Mistake
8. Two Trains Running
9. Werewolves of London
10. Lady in Red
11. All She Wants to Do is Dance

This quite stunningly authentic, heart-pounding blues rock album opens on the foot-pounder Uptown Girl Blues (which notably features Jimmy Vivino on guitar) and the hand-clapper, accordion-led Wine (featuring Steve Berlin on baritone sax) and backs those up sweetly with the free flowing blues of Bad Betty, the upbeat and joyous Gone and Alone and then comes one of my own personal favorites, Walker’s unique take of The Eagles’ Hotel California (which features Murali Coryell on guitar).

Up next is the B.B. King-esque tone of Regal Blues (which features, of course, the B.B. King Blues Band and Doyle Bramhall II on guitar) and the earthy blues-pop flow Make No Mistake which are in turn followed by the preppy Two Trains Running, a quite magnificently blues’d-up rendition of Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London (featuring Waddy Wachtel on guitar), the album rounding out on the mid-tempo balladry of Lady in Red (with Brooklyn native Bette Smith on vocals), closing on the Don Henley classic All She Wants to Do is Dance.

The New York Times raves, “Walker is a singer with a Cadillac of a voice. He delivers no-nonsense, gutsy blues. His guitar solos are fast, wiry and incisive, moaning with bluesy despair.”

Rolling Stone simply calls him “ferocious.”

And Billboard writes: “His playing blows all over the map…gutbucket blues, joyous gospel, Rolling Stones-style rock crunch, and aching R&B. Walker’s guitar playing is fine and fierce.”

Joe won the 2016 Blues Foundation Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year award at the Blues Foundation Awards ceremony in Memphis. The Blues Music Awards are universally recognized as the highest accolade afforded blues music performers.

The annual Blues Music Awards ceremony is the premier event for blues professionals, musicians, and fans from all over the world.

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